Upcoming Public Programs
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum’s public programs explore a range of topics reflecting on the ongoing impacts and continued resonance of the attacks, their historical context, and their aftermath.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
The Next Day: Front Page News on September 12
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. ET
On September 12, 2001, New York’s local papers managed to publish despite disrupted communications, destroyed offices, and destruction in lower Manhattan. For the journalists who witnessed the attacks and wrote the headlines the next day, it was the biggest story of their careers. To go behind the scenes of reporting and writing the iconic 9/11 cover stories, Museum Director Clifford Chanin is joined by Jim Pensiero, former Deputy Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal, Heidi Evans, former reporter at the Daily News, and Paul Moses, former City Editor and City Hall Bureau Chief at Newsday.
Monday, November 11, 2024
Above & Beyond: The Air Force Response on 9/11
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. ET
As thousands of first responders mobilized on the ground in response to the attacks on 9/11, fighter pilots took to the nation's skies. In this moment of unprecedented crisis, United States Air Force Lieutenant General Marc Sasseville, Major Heather Penney, and Lieutenant General Daniel Caine scrambled their F-16 jets, Sasseville and Penney without any weapons, to intercept any hijacked planes still in the skies and prevent an even larger tragedy. In honor of Salute to Service, these service members will join Museum President & CEO Beth Hillman to discuss the Air Force response on 9/11, lessons learned, and how the events reshaped the nation’s national defense protocols.
This program is offered virtually in conjunction with the seventh annual 9/11 Memorial & Museum Summit on Security, presented by Fiserv, which brings together many of the world's leading voices from across the public and private sectors to build on the discussion of how we can all make our companies, cities, and nations safer.
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Faces of Ground Zero: A Conversation with Joe McNally
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. ET
Award-winning photographer Joe McNally’s "Faces of Ground Zero: Portraits of the Heroes of September 11, 2001" is comprised of 246 large-scale polaroids featuring individuals who responded to 9/11 and contributed to the rescue and recovery operations at Ground Zero. A cross-section of these responder portraits will be on view in the Museum beginning this November. In conversation with Executive Vice President of Collections & Chief Curator Dr. Jan Ramirez, McNally will discuss his undertaking of this project in the emotional weeks following the attacks, how this medium served to uniquely capture this community, and his own experience interacting with those at the heart of this tragedy.
This program is presented as a complement to the Museum’s exhibition Faces of Ground Zero. The exhibition will be on view starting late November 2024.
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum’s programs are made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.