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September 14, 2001: Open Lines - Callers Respond & React to 911, Day 4
Published 1 year, 3 months ago
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Art Bell returns after finally getting ten hours of sleep, his first real rest since Tuesday morning. He opens the fourth consecutive night of 9/11 open lines by posing a somber question: what have we learned from all of this so far? He again reads from the Washington Post article about Falwell and Robertson, comparing their statements directly to bin Laden's own writings and challenging listeners to distinguish between the two brands of religious extremism.
Callers range from a young man in Georgia describing the strange quiet on normally busy streets to a black caller in Chicago who questions whether America truly includes all its citizens in times of crisis. A truck driver on the road to Arizona raises concerns about the vulnerability of the nation's supply chain. CNN transitions its coverage branding from "America Under Attack" to "America's New War," and Art muses about who decides these slogans and whether he will ever be important enough in the media to sit in on such meetings.
Art reads Tom Clancy's essay from the London Sunday Mail comparing the attacks to Pearl Harbor and describing the quiet, steely resolve of American military professionals. He closes the hour warning that the war dice are about to be rolled and that once they are, nobody can predict where they will land.
Callers range from a young man in Georgia describing the strange quiet on normally busy streets to a black caller in Chicago who questions whether America truly includes all its citizens in times of crisis. A truck driver on the road to Arizona raises concerns about the vulnerability of the nation's supply chain. CNN transitions its coverage branding from "America Under Attack" to "America's New War," and Art muses about who decides these slogans and whether he will ever be important enough in the media to sit in on such meetings.
Art reads Tom Clancy's essay from the London Sunday Mail comparing the attacks to Pearl Harbor and describing the quiet, steely resolve of American military professionals. He closes the hour warning that the war dice are about to be rolled and that once they are, nobody can predict where they will land.