In the immediate aftermath of the September 11th attack New York Times reporter Dean Murphy wanted to go beyond just simple eyewitness accounts and to assemble an entire oral history of that day.

Murphy painstakingly organized an oral history which was published one year after the attack.

In this fall 2002 interview Murphy talks about his research for the ook.

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