The Megyn Kelly Show
The Megyn Kelly Show

Remembering September 11 25 Years Later: The Heroes and Bravery, and the Moments That Shaped America | Ep. 1396

September 11, 2026

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On September 11, 2001, a hijacker aboard American Airlines Flight 11 told passengers over the cockpit intercom, "Nobody move. Everything will be okay. If you try to make any moves, you'll endanger yourself and the airplane." He did not know how to operate the intercom properly, so only Boston air traffic control heard him. Twenty-five years later, Megyn Kelly devoted an entire episode of her show to walking through the morning minute by minute—not to relitigate foreign policy, but to insist that the record be kept straight. The episode's central argument is that the generation alive that day has an obligation to preserve the memory of what actually happened, because the information age makes it too easy to forget, and because younger Americans are increasingly exposed to revisionist narratives that blur the line between perpetrators and victims.

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  • 1 (01:14) **Introduction and Purpose of the Episode** - Megyn Kelly sets the stage for the 25th anniversary of 9/11, explaining the show's mission to remember the day and push back against revisionist narratives.
  • 2 (06:28) **Megyn's Personal Connection to the World Trade Center** - Kelly recounts her personal history living at 71 Broadway, just blocks from the Twin Towers, and how she narrowly missed being in New York on the day of the attacks.
  • 3 (10:19) **The Timeline of the Attacks Begins: Flights 11 and 175** - Kelly narrates the early morning movements of the hijackers and the boarding of the two planes out of Boston that would hit the World Trade Center.
  • 4 (14:40) **The First Eyewitness Account: Betty Ong** - Kelly plays audio of flight attendant Betty Ong's calm and professional call reporting the hijacking of Flight 11, which she calls the first eyewitness account of the terror.
  • 5 (16:08) **Flight 93 and the Second Wave of Attacks** - The timeline shifts to the boarding of United Flight 93 and the hijacking of United Flight 175, setting up the key stories of heroism and sacrifice.
  • 6 (22:15) **The Horror Inside the Towers: "The Falling Man"** - Kelly discusses the impossible choice faced by those trapped in the upper floors, focusing on the iconic photograph of "The Falling Man."
  • 7 (27:33) **The Story of the Woman Who Held Her Skirt** - Kelly connects the dignity of a jumper to the motivation of the Navy SEALs who killed Osama bin Laden, featuring a clip from her interview with Rob O'Neill.

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Show Notes

Megyn Kelly remembers September 11, 2001 25 years later, with a personal and powerful look back at that day. She discusses the exact way the 9/11 terrorists were able to hijack the planes on that fateful morning, the horrifying feeling seeing the plane hit the first World Trade Center tower and realizing what was actually happening, the final act of self-determination of the World Trade Center "jumpers" on 9/11, the story of the "falling man," how George W. Bush was reluctantly thrust into the spotlight after September 11, the powerful moments he had in the days after the terror attack that helped unite the country, some of the most powerful stories of September 11, the most powerful stories of bravery we saw on 9/11, the "man in the red bandana" Welles Crowther and other heroes from that tragic day, and more.

 

 

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