From Editor and Publisher
By Greg Mitchell

Everything changed that day. Perhaps that’s why millions of us still retain, filed away, the front page of our local paper for Sept. 12, 2001, carrying a banner headline that reads something like “America Under Attack” or “New Day of Infamy.” But the true impact of what happened hit me harder than it had for quite some time this month while examining a routine, even dull, front page from the day before — the morning of the terror attacks.

It happened because my son in film school was preparing to shoot his 10-minute sophomore movie, a fictional narrative based on a family in our upstate town who lost their father on 9/11. For many years my son played on a Little League team with one of the boys, and I coached with the dad all that time. The film opens on the morning of the tragedy with a scene of the father heading off to work, and my son wondered if I could help him locate a paper from that day.

This proved to be no easy task. Who saved that morning’s paper? After quite a few calls and e-mails to New York area newspapers, to no avail, I finally convinced a gracious New York Times staffer to send me a PDF of Page One. Then I printed it out, nearly full-size, to send to my son.

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