Issue #9: Sept 11 Web Collection and a related archive's Sept
11-18th TV Collection


September 11 Web Archive  http://september11.archive.org/
A Library of Web Content From Around the Globe.

The tragic events of September 11, 2001, prompted web
creators around the world to respond.  Memorial sites, tribute
pages and survivor registries were created.  Corporations and
non-profits solicited donations for charity.  News sites from
countless countries dedicated their resources to reporting the
disaster and its aftermath and government sites sought to
inform and reassure the people.  Highlighted below are a few of
the many thousands of sites represented in this Internet library.

Government / Military
Government and Military sites continued their important mission
to serve the people.
* www.whitehouse.gov
* www.defenselink.mil
* www.firstgov.gov
* www.fema.gov  

Charitable Organizations
Charitable organizations responded immediately to the crisis
and began collecting donations for the victims.
* www.redcross.org
* christianity.com/salvationarmyusa
* www.libertyunites.org
* www.helping.org

International News
International news media represented many voices from around
the globe.
* lemonde.fr
* bbc.co.uk     

National News
Virtually all news sites provided non-stop coverage of the events
of September 11th.
* usatoday.com
* cnn.com
* foxnews.com
* pbs.org

This collection of archived documents was commissioned by the
Library of Congress to preserve digital materials covering the
events of September 11, 2001. Additional assistance has been
provided by Alexa Internet, webArchivist.org and Pew Internet &
American Life.  This collection contains more than 5 terabytes of
data gathered from 9/11/2001 to the present.  For more
information see the FAQs.
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September 11 Television Archive  from the Television Archive
  http://www.televisionarchive.org
The events of September 11th affected the entire world.
Reactions around the globe have been captured in this archive
of television news broadcasts from the period following the
attacks. We invite you to explore the collection and share your
thoughts with other archive users.

programs include:
- Good Morning America is interrupted at 8:51am as Diane
Sawyer announces an explosion at the World Trade Center.
- While showing live coverage of the World Trade Center fire, a
second plane strikes.
- Half an hour after the south tower collapses, World Trade
Center 1 collapses on live TV.
- The Japan Broadcasting Corporation shows live coverage of
the Pentagon crash.
- TV Azteca in Mexico carries President Bush's statements from
Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana
- China Central Television begins to cover the World Trade
Center collapse and the second plane crash.
- NTV from Moscow, Russia begins covering the events of the
day.

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