'Rai 3 for Enzo Biagi', the great journalist tells the story of the attack on the Twin Towers

the Enzo Biagi , along with his crew, was the first to be able to document the immense drama of the crater within the Ground Zero, inaccessible from the day of the attack organized by the terrorist Osama Bin Laden, in documenting the tragedy that has forever marked the United States. It was the end of November 2001. Before 11 September there were two towers and a lot of life, is now only a crater, and even a cemetery.

That day and there were 500 victims in the appeal, for a total of 3,000 deaths among New York, Washington, d.c., with the Pentagon in flames, and four civil aircraft hijacked, 6,000 of the injured. The workers did shifts of fourteen hours, they had cleared six hundred thousand tons of rubble. Today, Ground Zero has become a symbol of America. Those images, exclusive Rai, went around the world.

Biagi, on the bombing and what this would mean, not only for americans but for the whole world, he made a Special by the title: New York no stars, which he introduced thus: "New York for many italians, it means America. I have told the Hollywood films, has told the literature and the statistical. From the beginning of the last century, millions of italians discovered from the steamer to the statue of Liberty and chased a dream. I think there is another country to which we are related as the United States. Now the americans have two dates: 1492 and the discovery of their land and September 11, 2001, when they realize that there are no happy islands and the globalization of terror has taken possession of the world. The cruelty has no fatherland". The program participated in the writers of the Paul Auster and Gore Vidal , in addition to some of the survivors including Michael Hingson , who is blind, brought in unless from one of the towers by a guide dog.

He loved America and americans, told me that during the Great War, came to give a helping hand to his father, and in 1941, to him. New York was also the first big trip of the journalist - it was 1952 - a journey that never stopped, going from Santa Maria in the Azores to Canada.

In the presentation of the special Loris Mazzetti will see some tracks on the first television work which He had made in the United States at the end of 1963, I remember Kennedy, a month after the assassination in Dallas of 22 November that took the life of the president John Fitzgerald Kennedy . Also on that occasion, the great journalist interviewed, exclusively Rai, the brothers of John Robert and Edward Kennedy.

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