September 11, 2001 Attack on New York City

Through interviews and accounts of survivors, heroes, and even terrorists, the author-reporter of "Kennedy Assassinated!" creates a deeper understanding of the events of that tragic day. This updated 2011 edtion includes an Epilogue by the author that spans the decade since 9/11/01 and concludes with the death of Osama Bin Laden. Photos.

Wilborn Hampton was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1940, and was a reporter for U.P.I. from 1963 to 1979. Since 1979, Wilborn Hampton has worked at the NEW YORK TIMES as an editor and as a theater and book critic. On the morning of September 11, 2001, he was preparing to go to work when two hijacked planes flew into the World Trade Center in New York City. Wilborn Hampton undertook to write the story of that awful day because he felt that "no single event since the attack on Pearl Harbor has so traumatized and galvanized the American people as the attacks on September 11. It seemed important, especially for younger readers who may have questions in years to come about what happened, to try to put on paper an account of what took place in New York City that day. And the only way to begin to understand the horror of what occurred on September 11 was to recount it through the eyes of those who experienced it firsthand."