Watching the World Change, page 55
A group of firemen had organized: Invitation to FDNY Viking Association’s 1st Annual Sailboat Regatta, Star of America charter cruise event, August 10, 2002.
Arthur Barry: Portraits 9/11/01: The Collected “Portraits of Grief” from The New York Times (New York: Times Books, 2002), p. 29.
Eric Olsen: Invitation to FDNY Regatta.
The moment the yacht owners removed it: Interview with Dreifus.
But this one was five by eight: Interview with Dreifus.
The flag in the photo had measured: Interview with Dreifus; Stephanie Gaskell/Associated Press, “Couple Claims September 11 Flag Missing,” Dockwalk.com, March 2002 (www.dockwalk.com).
“it blocked our entire view”: Interview with Dreifus.
“Something’s wrong”: Interviews with Kelly.
There had even been initial whispers: Interview with Ackerman.
On the six-month anniversary: “Flag Raised Over WTC Wreckage Missing,” CNN.com, September 5, 2002 (http://cnn.usnews.com).
McWilliams complied: Interviews with Kelly.
Soon, a British newspaper was reporting: Toby Harnden, “Twin Towers Flag Pair Seek Tax Aid,” The (U.K.) Telegraph, March 5, 2002; “With 9/11 Flag,” p. B3.
Other accounts dubbed the couple opportunistic “millionaires”: “Millionaires…Ask for Tax Break for Donating ‘Ground Zero’ Flag,” What the Papers Say Web site, United Kingdom, March 5, 2002 (www.wtps.co.uk).
“People had this image of us”: Interview with Dreifus.
“If everybody just gave up”: The twin towers had been such an integral part of their lives that a proper accounting of this symbol of the day became something of a mission. The pair had gone on their first date in the Trade Center’s Sky Lobby. They operated their business out of the eighty-ninth floor of the north tower—four floors below the impact “on the side of the direct hit,” according to Shirley Dreifus, who had chosen to sleep in on September 11. (That morning, all five of her employees were located in what proved to be a protected section of the floor; they escaped as the offices burned around them.)
Mayor Bloomberg…set the FDNY to the task: Interview with Frank Gribbon; “September 11 Flag Missing,” BBC News Online, September 5, 2002 (www.bbcnews.co.uk).
“The mayor recognizes the flag”: “With 9/11 Flag,” p. B3.
“I don’t know where Osama bin Laden is either”: “Flag Raised Over WTC Wreckage Missing”; Wayne Barrett, “Mayor Mute,” TheVillageVoice.com, October 18, 2005 (www.villagevoice.com).
“My husband got totally frosted with that”: Interview with Dreifus.
The couple filed a notice of claim…they decided to sue: Interview with Dreifus.
They asked for $525,000: Michele McPhee, “Sue City in 9/11 Flag Flap,” New York Daily News, March 6, 2004.
“They paid ten dollars for a flag”: Ibid.
To this day…the FDNY has yet to: Interviews with Gribbon.
the Navy wanted to fly the firefighters’ flag: Interviews with Natter and a military source who requests anonymity.
“They were steaming away to the region”: Correspondence and interview with Roddy Von Essen.
With the approval of Deputy Fire Commissioner: Interview with Von Essen.
Later that week, just before a memorial service: Interviews with Natter.
“about the size of the one in the fireman’s picture”: Interview with military source who requests anonymity.
“I know a flag came down…the second flag”: Interviews with Gribbon.
There are no leads among…Giuliani’s inner circle: Interview with Sunny Mindel.
“Towards the end of the week”: Interview with Eisengrein.
“In hindsight…it was this world-famous photo”: Interviews with Gribbon.
“There was no sense of preserving”: Interview with James Hanlon.
“You have Port Authority, police”: Interview with anonymous high-ranking NYPD source.
“Ground Zero was a fairly protected area”: Interview with Dreifus.
An incident commander…says Kerik: Interviews with Bernard Kerik.
Gribbon insists…the sector commander: Interviews with Gribbon.
“He had life and death on his mind”: Interviews with Gribbon.
“Everybody and their brother”: Interview with Eisengrein.
On day three, a giant, eight-by-twelve: David W. Dunlap, “Architect Finds Spot for Flag Found in Ruins of 9/11 Site,” The New York Times, July 29, 2005, p. B8; “Long May She Wave: Emblem of 9/11 to Appear at Bush Museum,” press release from George (H. W.) Bush Presidential Library and Museum, September 2002 (http://bushlibrary.tamu.ed).
Another tattered flag was discovered at the Staten Island: Correspondence with Michelle Delaney and Marilyn Zoidis, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
A third was…brought to Kerik’s: Interview with Kerik.
then ended up flying on the space shuttle: “Members of the FDNY and NYPD Represent New York at Memorial Service in Houston for Columbia Astronauts,” press release from New York City Fire Department, February 4, 2003 (www.nyc.gov/html/fdny).
“The three firemen had taken care to attach it securely”: Examination of outtakes of photographs by Franklin and Grinker.
One logical explanation…once it appeared on the front page: “…gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,” New York Post, September 13, 2001, p. 1.
“The Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal”: Flags of Our Fathers, p. 207.
“After the third or fourth day”: Interview with Hanlon.
On Friday, in fact, nearly two inches of rain fell: Interview with the National Climatic Data center; “History for Central Park, New York, on Friday, September 14, 2001,” National Weather Service Daily Summary, wunderground.com (www.weatherunderground.com); Thomas Von Essen, Strong of Heart: Life and Death in the Fire Department of New York, (New York: ReganBooks, 2002), describing rain in September 14 entry of “From the Pages of My Notebooks” section, following p. 208.
“Want to make a wager?”: Interview with former NYPD official.
“There’s something on it that distinguishes it”: Interview with Dreifus.
“I still have to work a second job”: Interview with Eisengrein.
Sculptor Stan Watts has been working: Interviews with Kelly and Watts.
hoping to raise the requisite $4.5 million: Interview with Watts; Ed Sealover, “Firefighters Give Up 9/11 Statue Plans,” The (Colorado Springs) Gazette, September 27, 2005.
The firefighters, in fact, have…approved: Interviews with Kelly.
“It’s colossal”: Interview with Watts.
It was recently voted down: “Firefighters Give Up.”
Plans to erect it in Washington, D.C.: Interview with Watts.
Then the International Association of Fire Fighters backed out: “Firefighters Give Up.”
Watts…already plowed about $150,000: Interview with Watts.
On their flight down to Washington: Interviews with Kelly.
They had breakfast: Interviews with Eisengrein and Kelly.
learned that the president had personally chosen: Interview with Ackerman.
At around 2:45 p.m.: “Bush Unveils September 11 Commemorative Postage Stamp,” press release from the White House, Office of the Press Secretary, March 11, 2002.
Upon meeting…firemen offered him a gift: Interviews with Eisengrein, Franklin, and Kelly.
“I appreciate you all allowing the Postal Service”: “Bush Unveils September 11 Commemorative Postage Stamp.”
“In the glorious tradition of the Marine Corps”: Flags of Our Fathers, p. 295.
Before heading back to New York that day: Interviews with Eisengrein and Kelly.
There, they…beheld the statue of six men…four stories tall: “U.S.M.C. War Memorial” description, National Park Service Web site, 2005 (www.nps.gov).
“The sun was going down”: Interviews with Eisengrein and Kelly.
It showed my sister, Janet…her young life gone: Jay Lovinger, “Celebrating Janet,” Life, October 1997, p. 10.
It was the bloodiest day in U.S. history: David Friend, “America’s Darkest Day,” The Digital Journalist, October 2001 (www.digitaljournalist.org).
I am referring…to September 17, 1862: William A. Frassanito, Antietam: The Photographic Legacy of America’s Bloodiest Day (New York: Scribner, 1978), p. 17.
The one-day toll: four to five thousand fatalities: Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative—Volume II: Fort Sumter to Perryville (New York: Random House, 1958), p. 702; David J. Eicher, The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), p. 363.
The photographers…Alexander Gardner and James Gibson: Antietam, pp. 18, 51.
Working under the auspices of Mathew Brady: Ibid., pp. 53–54.
The photographs…the first to show American war dead: Ibid., pp. 19–20.
When displayed…pedestrians “pressed up against the windows”: Martha A. Sandweiss, “Death on the Front Page,” The New York Times, April 4, 2002, p. D13.
“It is so nearly like visiting the battlefield”: Joel Snyder, “Inventing Photography,” in Sarah Greenough, Joel Snyder, David Travis, and Colin Westerbeck, On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred Fifty Years of Photography (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art/Art Institute of Chicago, 1989), p. 27.
Pearl Harbor, where 2,400 U.S. servicemen perished: Nathan Miller, War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II (New York: Scribner, 1995), p. 206; Gordon W. Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, and Katherine V. Dillon, Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986), p. xxxii.
2,500 Allied deaths…1,465 of them American: “D-Day and the Battle of Normandy: Your Questions Answered,” D-Day Museum, Portsmouth, United Kingdom (www.ddaymuseum.co.uk).
10,000 total assault-force casualties…[German toll]: Ibid.
Their images, later splashed across spreads of Life: Life’s Picture History of World War II, Arthur B. Tourtellot, ed. (New York: Time, 1950), p. 84.
Capa managed to squeeze off four rolls: John G. Morris, Get the Picture: A Personal History of Photojournalism (New York: Random House, 1998), p. 6.
eleven frames of which survived: Ibid., p. 7.
Index
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A
Abbas, Ali Ismail
ABC News
Abu Ghraib photographs
Ackerman, Gary
Adair, Sean
Adams, Eddie
Adashek, Jonathan
Ad Council
Adler, Jerry
advertising
aerial photography
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Afghanistan; Allied campaign in
African embassy bombings (1998)
“After September 11: Images from Ground Zero” (traveling exhibition)
Agency.com
Ailes, Roger
airborne imaging
Air Force One photographs
airport security
Alabiso, Vin
Alam, Shahidul
Alaniz, Andy
Aldrin, Buzz
al-Hazmi, Nawaf
al-Jazeera
Allan, Stuart: Journalism After September 11; “Reweaving the Internet,”
al-Mihdhar, Khalid
al-Qaeda; imagery and propaganda; Massoud murder
Altongy, Janine
al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab
Amatuccio, Joseph
American Airlines Flight 11
American Airlines Flight 77
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Amossy, Yossi
Anaya, Charlie
“anthrax” letters
Antietam, Battle of
antiwar movement, of late 1960s
AOL
Aon
Apple, R. W., Jr.
Aperture
Apted, Michael
Arab Americans, discrimination against
Arad, Michael
Arafat, Yasir
ARD-TV
Arellano, Bolivar
Arlington National Cemetery
Arnett, Peter
ArtForum
artifacts and images, preservation of
Art in America
artists; Internet
art therapy
Associated Press
Atlantic Monthly, The
Atta, Mohammed
AVIRIS
B
Baghdad
Baierwalter, Robert
Bailey, Chris
Balkans
Band of Brothers
Banfield, Ashleigh
Barrer, Jane
Barry, Arthur
Barry, Dan
Bartlett, Dan
Battery Park City
BBC
Beckwith, Bob
Beckwith, Tamara
Benazzo, Maurizio
Bender, Gretchen
Benetatos, Tony
Benjamin, Walter
Benn, Nathan
Bennett, William
Benson, Gigi
Benson, Harry
Benson, Richard
Bentham, Jeremy
Bentkowski, Tom
Bergen, Peter, Holy War, Inc.
Bergen Record
Berlin Wall, fall of
Beslan schoolhouse massacre (2004)
Bialik, Carl
Biggart, Bill
bin Laden, Osama; Bush’s “Wanted, Dead or Alive” remark about; imagery and propaganda
biometrics
blogs and chat rooms
Bloomberg, Michael
Bodkin, John
body parts, see remains, human
booby-trapped cameras
Booher, Andrea
books, 9/11
Borakove, Ellen
Borg, Jennifer
Boston Globe, The
Boston Herald
Boulat, Alexandra
Bourke-White, Margaret
Boxer, Sarah
Boyce, Russell
Bradley, James, Flags of Our Fathers (with Ron Powers)
Bradley, John “Doc,”
Brady, Mathew
Branch, John
Bravest Fund
Bravo, Monika
Breitweiser, Kristen
Breitweiser, Ronald
bridge and tunnel, photographic restrictions
Broadway
Brochmann, Kristen
Brody, Adrien
Brokaw, Tom
Brondolo, Dave
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Bridge
Brotherhood (book)
Brown, Gregg
Bubriski, Kevin
Buckley, Christopher
Buehler, Phillip
Burke, Edmund
Burke, Tom
Burlingame, Charles
Burrows, Barbara Baker
Bursuker, Moshe
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.; at Ground Zero; Hurricane Katrina response; Iraq policy and images; “Mission Accomplished” speech; 9/11 plot hints ignored by; response to 9/11; television news avoided by; 2004 election; “Wanted, Dead or Alive” speech
Business Week
buzzmachine.com
C
Cacicedo, Kathy
Cahill, Tommy
Callan, Tom
Calo, Robert
Cammarata, Michael
Canon cameras
Cantor Fitzgerald; loss of life; Relief Fund
Capa, Cornell
Capa, Robert
Card, Andrew
Carlson, Margaret
Carr, David
Carter, Graydon
Carter, Mike
Cassalliggi, Joe
Catskill snapshot
Caujolle, Christian
CBS News
celebrity photography
cell phones; cameras
Chambers Street
Chao Soi Cheong
Cheney, Dick
Cheney, Lynne
Chicago Tribune
China
Chojecki, Michelle
Chomsky, Noam
Christensen, Jeff
Church Street
CIA
citizen-journalists
civil liberties, restrictions on
Civil War, U.S.
Claman, Jeffrey
Clark, Robert
Clarke, Richard
Claypole, Stephen
Cleary, Kevin
Clegg, Jeannine
clergymen
climatic effects of 9/11
Clinton, Bill
closed-circuit TV (CCTV)
CNBC
CNN
Cohen, Richard
Cole, USS, attack on
Coleman, Jean
Coleman, Keith
Coleman, Scott
Columbine massacre
Colwell, Cynthia
Condé Nast
Congress, U.S.; 9/11 commission
Conlan, Peggy
Conlan, Seamus
Conroy, Brian
conspiracy theories, 9/11
consumerism
Contact Press Images
Contax cameras
Conway, Brenda
Coppola, Gerard
Corbis
Cotsifas, Anthony
Couvares, Francis G.
Cowans, Adger
Crimean War
Critch, Father Gerard
Culbertson, Frank
Cullison, Alan
Cumins, Robert A.
curbs on photography
Curry, Karen
Customs Service, U.S.
D
daguerreotype
Daily Oklahoman, The
Daniel, Malcolm
Dannin, Robert
Darby, Joseph
Darton, Eric, Divided We Stand
Daser, Isabel
Datta, Arko
Davidson, Titus
Davie, Geraldine
Davies, Susan
Day, Edward
D-Day
Dean, Howard
Deardorff View Camera
death toll, 9/11
Delaney, Michelle
DeLillo, Don
Delory, Stephen
Democratic National Convention (1968)
denial
De Nicola, Frank J.
Department of Homeland Security
Desperito, Andrew
Detroit Free Press
“Devil” picture
Diana, Princess of Wales
DiFranco, Donald J.
