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Driving to work outside of Boston, listening to the Howard Stern program, then on WBCN. He reported on a small plane hitting the WTC, but mostly was doing his u
by geophile 16y ago
Driving to work outside of Boston, listening to the Howard Stern program, then on WBCN. He reported on a small plane hitting the WTC, but mostly was doing his usual schtick. Then the second plane hit and he concluded that it was a terrorist attack. He was a better source of news in those first minutes than the local NPR station or anything else I could find on my car radio.
Once I got to work, we watched TV for the rest of the day. It was the strangest, most surreal work day I've ever experienced. There were lots of rumors going around, with great uncertainty over how many planes were taken over.
- andre3k1 16y agoGood ole Howard.... before his inevitable move to satellite radio.
- ja27 16y agoI was working at home, listening to a local "shock jock" morning radio show when they mentioned the first crash. I flipped on CNN on my computer's tv tuner but mostly listened to the radio. When the second plane hit, it took a minute for everyone to clarify that it was a second plane. One of the guys on the radio show said, within 30 seconds, 'this is the work of Osama bin Laden'. Everyone in our office, near our airport, was told to go home about 10 minutes after the second plane hit. We were weeks from filing for an IPO, but that never happened.