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In 2001, Kevin Michael Williams seemed bound for a promising future. The 24-year-old had graduated magna cum laude from Boston College. The Long Island–native was an honor student as well as a talented athlete.
More than 500 New York City Police Department recruits visited the 9/11 Memorial & Museum Thursday morning to honor and remember the members of the NYPD who sacrificed their lives on Sept. 11, 2001.
Native New Yorker Abraham J. Zelmanowitz lived in Brooklyn with his brother and his brother’s family. Abraham played chess and loved music, everything from opera to the Beatles. Jack Zelmanowitz recalled his brother Abraham as a thoughtful family man.
Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Maile Hale had a lifelong passion for the ocean. During a 2011 visit to the 9/11 Memorial, her two sisters, Marilyce and Martha, brought a jar of sand from Malaekahana Beach, where they spent time together while growing up on the island of Oahu.
When conserving artifacts in the 9/11 Memorial Museum’s collection, staff conservators often analyze the item to answer a key question: what is the story that this object is trying to tell?
Professor Sheila Carapico, widely recognized as a leading expert on Yemen, spoke about the country’s current political crisis at the 9/11 Memorial Museum.
Sheila Carapico, professor of political science and international studies at the University of Richmond, is an expert in Yemeni politics.
Speaking at the 9/11 Memorial Museum on Wednesday, Gen. Michael Hayden, a former CIA and National Security Agency Director, participated in a wide-ranging and candid discussion about the key moments of decision making in the War on Terror and the current challenges facing intelligence agencies like the CIA and NSA.
In recognition of the 76th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, we remember Pearl Harbor survivor John Seelie.
Speaking at the 9/11 Memorial Museum on Thursday, Nov. 30, Thomas Hegghammer and Cole Bunzel, two scholars of jihadi culture, discussed how terrorist groups like ISIS recruit and create shared values among their supporters.
