victims of terrorism

Lisa Beamer shares memories of her life with husband Todd, and discusses how her husband's courageous actions on United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, forever changed her life, and the lives of all Americans.

Examines the events and aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, focusing on the aid given to the relief effort by local citizens and others across the nation and beyond.

Chronicles the events surrounding the hijacking and crash of United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, focusing on the passengers' efforts to overtake the hijackers and prevent the plane from being used as a weapon against an American landmark.

An alphabetically arranged collection of photographs and brief biographical sketches from the "New York Times" "Portaits of Grief" feature, which profiles the men and women who died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

The lives of two young people in England--Fatimah, a devout Muslim, and Steve, a white, nonreligious boy--are changed when a press photo taken of them after a terrorist attack makes it appear that they are a couple and that Fatimah saved him and let her Muslim friend die.

On the night of November 26, 2008, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout Mumbai, including the Taj-Mahal Palace Hotel, one of the world's most exclusive luxury hotels. For sixty-eight hours, hundreds were held hostage as shots rang out and an enormous fire raged. In the end, thirty-one people were dead and hundreds more injured. Courageous actions of guests and staff prevented a much higher death toll.

On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, Michael Benfante went to work on the eighty-first floor in the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Moments after the plane struck the tower, Benfante organized his terrified employees moving them down the tower and out. But on his way down he and another co-worker encountered a woman in a wheelchair. They stayed to help her down and ninety-six minutes later they carried her out of the North Tower and into an ambulance that rushed her to safety just minutes before the tower imploded. A CBS video camera caught Benfante just as he got out of the building. A year later he got married and the woman in the wheelchair sat in the front row. But after all the media attention died down, he found that he was in a journey of wrenching personal challenges of critical emotional and psychological depth. A reluctant hero, Michael Benfante found that he would always be a survivor.

The story of the last survivor pulled from the 9/11 Ground Zero debris after 27 hours and her journey to a life beyond 9/11.

Shortly after 9/11, virulent anthrax spores sent through the mail killed Bob Stevens, a Florida tabloid editor. Days later, after his death, the discovery in New York and Washington D.C. of letters filled with anthrax, sent shock waves through the nation. More deaths occurred and the FBI began its on-the-ground criminal investigation with advanced bioforensic analyses of the letters' contents.