Transcript: Mary McGrory Notebook
Mary McGrory, reporter’s notebook opened to the first two pages of handwritten notes, in cursive and shorthand, recording the unfolding events of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., [September 11, 2001], Container 154, Mary McGrory Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
Transcription first page
Tuesday
9:55 - running thru Gate of Whse [White House]
optng [operating?][assumption of] terrorism
lower Manhattan
second plane fr [from] bkside [backside] of tower
½ hr [after] 1st attack
[nothing like it since] Oklahoma City
feb. 1993 - attack on WTC [World Trade Center]
9:57 - reprt [report] fr [from] Penta [Pentagon]
9:59 x Ex Dir. Tom Davis
Hill = not in session
Carolyn Coffee
Phone number redacted
sklchildren [schoolchildren]
Capitol closed dn [down]
10 AM - [another] Ey [Emergency] at 2d tower
Penta [Pentagon] St [State] Dept
Whse [White House] evacuated
Transcription second page
South Tower has collapsed
tower buckling
[Every airport in the country has been] shut dn [down]
Giuliani
Capitol Hill
MCS [Marine Corps] walking by
Daryl Je[n?d?]kins
our [lives] w [will] never be
[the] same.
10:26 Sen Press
Our lives w [will] nev [never] be [the] same.
10:26 Pentagon [stranded? shrouded?] airprt [airport]
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