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Library of Congress Unveils 9-11 Exhibit

Aired September 08, 2002 - 07:24   ET

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CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: Since the attacks last September, a host of exhibits and tributes have been opened around the country. In Washington yesterday, the Library of Congress unveiled a wide-ranging compilation of site, sounds and responses to the terrorist attacks and CNN's Kathleen Koch was there.
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KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): There are physical pieces and riveting images of the buildings struck and the chaos that followed.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The steam and the sprinkle system and the -- everything has gone out. I just stood there, of course, (UNINTELLIGIBLE) and finally realized, it dawned on me, I said, what the heck do I do.

KOCH: Audio on tapes, too, from days of rescue workers. Nearly 250 items collected by the Library of Congress starting last September. Daryl Donely snapped these photos after Flight 77 struck the Pentagon.

DARYL DONELY, AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER: I could see the windows. I saw the entire plane and then saw it fly right into the Pentagon. A huge fireball and my first thought was I can't photograph this, and then my next thought was well, I'm here, I've got my camera, I have got to photograph this.

KOCH: Bolivar Ariano (ph) was in New York.

JEREMY ADAMSON, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: The man who had covered civil wars throughout Latin America, marked for death by death squads said this was the most traumatic experience of his life.

KOCH: Lana Lawrence's photo memories are there too.

LANA LAWRENCE, PHOTOGRAPHER: This was what it looked like for those of us who lived in Arlington and lived close to the Pentagon, and it was just a very haunting, very eerie and you knew what they were doing. You heard the helicopters at night. You knew they were recovering bodies.

KOCH: Headlines from every continent registered the shock waves, even cartooned depictions are included.

HARRY KATZ, CURATOR, PRINTS & PHOTOGRAPHS: Some of the earliest graphic expressions, what America was feeling, it's very grim. It's very tough.

KOCH: Also public reactions on 8 x 10 solicited by New York Art Gallery.

KATZ: By messenger, by mail, by every means possible they received over 2500 responses.

KOCH: There are inevitably the painful videos and finally drawings by children trying to make sense of it all.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: One, which depicts the Statue of Liberty sort of patting the American eagle and telling the eagle it's going to be OK, much like parents tell children when they get hurt, that things will be OK.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Fifty years from now people can see the kind of emotional -- emotion and creativity that came out of the event. It shows -- it's life affirming.

KOCH: Kathleen Koch, CNN, Washington.

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