Reply #12: The Willie Brown story was out there [View All]

immediately after 9/11. He mentioned it that very day. Keep in mind, it was around 6am on the west coast when planes started crashing in the east, so for all practical purposes, no flights left SFO or anywhere in the Pacific time zone that day.

It is wierd, and maybe is just a truly bizarre coincidence, a nutcase phone call that actually has no connection to the events of Sept 11, 2001, but still....

I also get quite exercised over the fact that right around the time the plane crashed into the Pentagon, all the networks were reporting a car bomb at the State Department and fires on the Mall.... this from people who simply needed to walk two blocks in one direction or three blocks in another to actually see whether or not anything had blown up at the State Department or was on fire on the Mall. They kept on reporting those things for about an hour, as best my memory serves. For a long time, months really, there was an archive website available where you could watch all the networks in real time for Sept 11 and about four days thereafter. It was quite instructive to watch it, and watch each network shift to the live coverage, and exactly how it was reported. Alas, about a year ago the connections stopped working. I'm sorry I never figured out how to download all that stuff onto a CD to have as a permanent record.