Witness History
Witness History
With the president on 9/11
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September 8, 2021
10 minutes
Available for over a year
The al-Qaeda attacks against America took place on the morning of September the 11th 2001. The news was broken to the US President, George W Bush by his Chief of Staff Andrew Card, as he was on a visit to an elementary school. Simon Watts reports. This programme was first broadcast in 2020.
(Photo: President George W. Bush shortly after learning of the 9/11 attacks. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)