ANTENA 3 NOTICIAS {ATAQUE TERRORISTA CONTRA
ESTADOS UNIDOS CINTA 1} {NEWS: TERRORIST ATTACKS
AGAINST THE UNITED STATES, TAPE 1 OF 6} {TERRORIST
ATTACKS} {SPANISH} (TV)
Summary
Tape one of six. This Antena 3 newscast presents
coverage of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001,
and their aftermath, as aired on Antena 3 in Spain.
This tape contains the first hour of Antena 3's live and
continuous coverage, beginning abruptly at the
conclusion of a regular news update at 2:57 p.m. Madrid
time (8:57 a.m. EDT) and running to 4:07 p.m. (10:07
a.m. EDT). Anchor Matias Prat announces that an
airplane has hit one of the towers of the World Trade
Center in New York; he connects via telephone with
Ricardo Ortega, Antena 3 correspondent in New York, who
first describes the smoke emanating from around the
80th floor of the north tower before live images appear.
Ortega announces that it is not yet know if this is an
"accident" or "terrorism." (From this point on in the
broadcast, images are exclusively those of events
unfolding in New York and Washington, D.C.; all listed
interviews, unless otherwise noted, are via phone with
no images of interviewees.) As the camera is on the
image of the burning tower, smoke appears on the left of
the screen, first identified as another explosion, and
then as a second plane striking the south tower. Prat
and Ortega continue talking as the camera remains on the
towers: Prat speculates that there may have been
explosives aboard; Ortega reports what is being shown on
U.S. television, describes the previous attack on the
World Trade Center in 1993 and the lack of any
particular alert in New York at this time (although
admittedly there was some concern after the Yemen
attack in October last year), and confirms that the
planes were indeed hijacked. Next, Prat briefly talks
with an Iberia Airlines representative who is unable to
identify the plane caught on camera, but who says that
only an experienced pilot could fly a plane that size.
Prat then cuts to President George W. Bush's first
statement about the "national tragedy," made from a
school he is visiting in Sarasota, Florida; Prat asks
Ortega to provide simulatenous translation as audio is
not immediately available. Then Prat checks in with
correspondents Emilio Sanz (audio i.d. only) in Moscow,
Monica Prado in Brussels, Enrique Zimmerman in Israel,
and JosŽ Angel Clavas (audio i.d. only) in London;
although no governments have issued any official
response, Zimmerman says that Israelis are already
speculating a Mideast terrorist connection, particularly
with the first year anniversary of the Palestinian
Intifada approaching. Immediately following Clavas's
report, Ortega announces that the Pentagon is on fire;
images (provided by CNN) appear of smoke emanating
from the Pentagon. Ortega reports that the White House
has been evacuated and that the Pentagon is being
evacuated; he says that it was another plane or a
helicopter that hit the Pentagon. Then, he says that
Reuters from Dubai reports that the Democratic Front for
the Liberation of Palestine has claimed responsibility
for the attacks. Further images show the Pentagon
engulfed in smoke, while Ortega confirms that it was
indeed a plane that struck and states that all
Washington, D.C. government buildings are being
evacuated. He also reports that Muslim extremists and
Osama bin Laden are seen as potential suspects. The
image returns to New York, where a billowing cloud of
smoke is covering the area around the World Trade
Center; it is a few minutes before both Prat and Ortega
realize that the south tower has collapsed entirely
(footage of the actual collapse of the tower is then
shown). Antena 3 news director Ernesto S‡ez de Buruaga
joins Prat in the studio to recap. S‡ez next speaks
briefly with JosŽ Maria Guitierrez (audio i.d. only) of
the U.S. Embassy in Madrid where only a few Americans
have appeared so far. Continues with T:80876.
(This program is in Spanish.)
Cataloging of this program was made possible by Media
Planning, 2004.
Details
- NETWORK: Antena 3 (Spain)
- DATE: September 11, 2001 2:57 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:10:04
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:71480
- GENRE: News
- SUBJECT HEADING: Disasters; Hijacking of aircraft; International Collection - Spanish - Zone 1 - Spain; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Terrorism
- SERIES RUN: Antena 3 (Spain) - TV, 2001
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Matias Prat … Anchor
- Saez de Buruaga, Ernesto … Anchor
- Clavas, Jose Angel (audio i.d. only) … Reporter
- Ricardo Ortega … Reporter
- Monica Prado … Reporter
- Sanz, Emilio (audio i.d. only) … Reporter
- Enrique Zimmerman
- George W. Bush
- Guitierrez, Jose Maria (audio i.d. only)