"I read the news today, oh boy..."

The world's newspapers and news magazines are the running permanent record of history as it happens.  Major events are often shown on the front page of these newspapers.  No event in recent memory has had as major an impact on the US and the world as did the horrific terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on the twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center (each 100+-stories tall) and on the Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. military establishment in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC.  The images below show how the events of that day were depicted on the front pages of the world's newspapers and news magazines, often in special "Extra" editions.  There are more than 400 different front page images in this presentation.

Collecting images of all of these was quite an undertaking that included visiting the web sites of hundreds of newspapers and magazines and literally scouring the internet.  Many of the front page images were found in very large Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files or other image formats that were quite sizeable.  Using tools like Macromedia Fireworks and Microsoft Photo Editor, I managed to shrink these images down to sizes that are workable for this presentation.

Because of the number of images, they are presented in a random order that is made up when you open the page.  You're not likely to see them in the same order twice!  I hope you enjoy it.  And I hope this will inspire you to read a newspaper regularly.  It's your life and your history, and no other medium offers the same level of depth and detail of what's happening to you and your world.

The background music on this page is a MIDI rendition of Paul McCartney's "Ou Est Le Soleil?"  The original version can be found on his 1989 album, "Flowers In The Dirt."  The MIDI file was sequenced by Jim Huff.  You can find this and many other Paul McCartney and other similarly Beatles-related MIDI sequences at http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Towers/2838/paul/paul.htm.