This Saturday, September 11, ABC NEWS Channel will have comprehensive coverage of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Everyone remembers exactly where they were when they saw the planes hit the World Trade Centre. Nothing like it had ever happened before and it changed the world forever.
Two decades on ABC NEWS Channel will have compelling coverage of special memorial services both here and in the United States.
Saturday, September 11
At 8:00pm, 9/11 Stories, a special documentary hosted by John Barron, talks to 20 Australians whose lives were forever changed on that fateful day. Hear their stories of loss, love, courage, dedication and hope.
James Dorney, who was working on the 92nd floor of the World Trade Centre that day; Fmr Prime Minister John Howard and Fmr Opposition Leader Kim Beazley; Maha Abdo from the Muslim Women Assoc; fmr Guantanamo Bay detainee, Mamdouh Habib; and Prue Clarke who was the ABC correspondent at Ground Zero.
At 9:00pm, a half hour news bulletin with the latest COVID news and previewing the services in New York, Washington and here in Australia.
At 9:00pm, a half hour news bulletin with the latest COVID news and previewing the services in New York, Washington and here in Australia.
At 9:30pm, Ellen Fanning and Stan Grant host an hour special in the lead up to the US memorial service. There’ll be special analysis from Planet America host John Barron and live discussion from New York and other US cities about how 9/11 changed the world.
From 10:30pm, live coverage from New York of the 20th anniversary memorial service which will include six moments of silence, to mark when each World Trade Centre tower was struck and fell, when the Pentagon was attacked, and when the hijacked Flight 93 crashed in a Pennsylvania field.
The first of these silences will be at 10:46pm.
