For our Sept. 11, 2026 newsletter, Rough Draft compiled some audio highlights memorializing the 25th Anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

📻 Listen to how NPR’s “Morning Edition” covered the news on Sept. 11, 2001.

🎙️ “60 Words” from Radiolab and BuzzFeed revisits a 2014 episode on the single sentence that gave presidents the power to wage the war on terror.

🎧 StoryCorps’ “September 11th Initiative” preserves the memories of the people who were lost that day and those who survived it. 

🎙️ The Atlantic profiled the family of FDNY Lt. Kevin Dowdell, whose teenage sons searched Ground Zero for their father after he disappeared on 9/11.

🎙️ CBS News revisited survivors from the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Flight 93, whose memories remain as vivid as the day tragedy struck.

📺 The History Channel’s gripping documentary “102 Minutes That Changed America” recounts the terror attack as it unfolded that morning. 

This report was compiled and written by Rough Draft Atlanta's staff.