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E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, May 14, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Recalling shock and awe Mitchell Zuckoff has masterfully transformed an enormous record and his own interviews into a powerful narrative of that day when America’s worst act of terrorism sped from out of the blue of a sunny, azure sky, writes Paul Moses As a New Yorker, I was itchell Zuckoff and I spent September 11, 2001, in a mostly aware of events similar pursuit: writing the main story of an involving the destruction unprecedented terrorist Mattack for our respective newspapers, based of the World Trade Center. on the reporting of dozens of colleagues. His But I had not focused account appeared in the next day’s Boston Globe, and mine in Newsday. on other aspects. One I don’t know what the experience was like for him, but for me, it was a frustrating day example: the terrible fi lled with unanswered questions; the most foul-ups in military air basic information was unavailable. Eventually, a vast body of evidence support in response to took shape: the 9/11 Commission records, including more than 1,200 interviews; the hijackings of four aviation, engineering, communications and military inquiries; massive news coverage; commercial flights dozens of books; 911 dispatcher tapes; court ‘ transcripts; oral history. Zuckoff , a Boston University journalism — Paul Moses, author, professor and author of seven previous nonfi ction books, has masterfully ex-journalist transformed this enormous record and his ’ own interviews into a powerful narrative of Tuesday, May 14, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY that day when America’s worst act of terrorism sped from out of the blue of a sunny, azure sky. It happened to be the last week of my 23 years in daily journalism; There was also a story of I was starting a second career teaching the craft. Every semester heroism, which Mitchell thereafter, I gave my students at Brooklyn College a lesson based Zuckoff tells with emotion on covering 9/11; I saw how it and chilling, precise gradually turned from news to historic event.