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“The Sept. 11, 2001, sky was a brilliant, unblemished blue. Freelance photographer Steve Ludlum was strolling through Brooklyn when he saw smoke rising from lower Manhattan. An airplane had just smashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Ludlum grabbed his camera and raced to the Manhattan Bridge for a better view.
“Ludlum didn’t see the second plane approach as he trained his zoom lens on the burning tower. A ball of flame lit up the viewfinder. Ludlum clicked the shutter. When United Flight 175 hit the South Tower, he thought it was a bomb. He rushed to a pharmacy to develop his film and took it to The New York Times.”
Killing time in line, posted earlier:
