Candid Photographs Taken of People During the Terrorist Attack on September 11, 2001

The terror assault of September 11, 2001, in which nearly 3,000 perished, was the most widely viewed breaking-news event in human history. And as the horrors unfolded, thousands of bystanders, professional photographers, and TV-news crews took tens of thousands of images and filled untold hours of videotape. On television alone, the scenes were witnessed that day by an estimated two billion people—a third of the human race.

These candid photographs captured the scenes around and far away from the burning Towers.