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The JFK assassination has been such a recurrent theme for so long that I reckon I might have memories of it, even though it happened decades before I was born.

interestica 3y ago
As time goes by I'm less and less sure that I saw the second plane hit the tower on 9/11 live. I think there's a similar "induced memory" surrounding who watched the challenger disaster live. (Fwiw, I'm still pretty sure I watched it live)
- simonh 3y ago
  I didn’t see it live, it was on a news replay minutes after it happened. I remember thinking I have to tell my brother and my dad, but what will I say? It felt a bit like when you stub your toe and it doesn’t hurt yet, you know something bad has happened and this is the pause before the impact hits when you tell everyone. I seem to remember them asking what exactly had happened, and I struggled to explain what I’d seen on the few seconds of replay I’d seen, and couldn’t really describe it. Years later we discussed it and they were both adamant we all watched it live on TV. Am I misremembering, or them, or all of us? Tough one. With 9/11 I seem to remember one of the impacts only being seen from the explosion, but you couldn’t see the plane itself. Maybe that was the second one?
  - jcranmer 3y ago
    > With 9/11 I seem to remember one of the impacts only being seen from the explosion, but you couldn’t see the plane itself. Maybe that was the second one? There is an archive of several news channel and their coverage of 9/11 at https://archive.org/details/911/day/20010911#/ https://archive.org/details/911/day/20010911#/. Some of the news channels had better viewpoints and saw the second plane hit on live footage [1]. The NEWSNW channel has a very solid view of the second plane as it hits, which causes the reporter there to react mid-sentence. Note that's the live coverage; since there's so many cameras pointed out the towers by that time, there's several different angles of the actual moment of impact (although most news channels were focusing on the views that best showed the damage at the first tower when it happened live). There's only three known recordings of the first tower being hit (the best quality one being from someone shooting a documentary film who heard the plane, looked up with the camera, and recorded it as it hit). The hit of the Pentagon is only recorded by a security camera, where there is but one frame with part of the plane being just barely in the view before the impact. [1] This takes place in the first or second clip of the second row of the 9:00-9:10 segment, depending on how bad the delay is.
    - simonh 3y ago
      Thanks, that's great. After this amount of time I can't say what memories of seeing a plane impact is which tower. I suppose I must have seen footage of the second impact, I just know I didn't see it live.
Tao3300 3y ago
There probably even a conspiracy theory that you did it!

interestica 3y ago

As time goes by I'm less and less sure that I saw the second plane hit the tower on 9/11 live. I think there's a similar "induced memory" surrounding who watched the challenger disaster live. (Fwiw, I'm still pretty sure I watched it live)

simonh 3y ago
I didn’t see it live, it was on a news replay minutes after it happened. I remember thinking I have to tell my brother and my dad, but what will I say? It felt a bit like when you stub your toe and it doesn’t hurt yet, you know something bad has happened and this is the pause before the impact hits when you tell everyone. I seem to remember them asking what exactly had happened, and I struggled to explain what I’d seen on the few seconds of replay I’d seen, and couldn’t really describe it. Years later we discussed it and they were both adamant we all watched it live on TV. Am I misremembering, or them, or all of us? Tough one. With 9/11 I seem to remember one of the impacts only being seen from the explosion, but you couldn’t see the plane itself. Maybe that was the second one?
- jcranmer 3y ago
  > With 9/11 I seem to remember one of the impacts only being seen from the explosion, but you couldn’t see the plane itself. Maybe that was the second one? There is an archive of several news channel and their coverage of 9/11 at https://archive.org/details/911/day/20010911#/ https://archive.org/details/911/day/20010911#/. Some of the news channels had better viewpoints and saw the second plane hit on live footage [1]. The NEWSNW channel has a very solid view of the second plane as it hits, which causes the reporter there to react mid-sentence. Note that's the live coverage; since there's so many cameras pointed out the towers by that time, there's several different angles of the actual moment of impact (although most news channels were focusing on the views that best showed the damage at the first tower when it happened live). There's only three known recordings of the first tower being hit (the best quality one being from someone shooting a documentary film who heard the plane, looked up with the camera, and recorded it as it hit). The hit of the Pentagon is only recorded by a security camera, where there is but one frame with part of the plane being just barely in the view before the impact. [1] This takes place in the first or second clip of the second row of the 9:00-9:10 segment, depending on how bad the delay is.
  - simonh 3y ago
    Thanks, that's great. After this amount of time I can't say what memories of seeing a plane impact is which tower. I suppose I must have seen footage of the second impact, I just know I didn't see it live.

Tao3300 3y ago

There probably even a conspiracy theory that you did it!