(CBS/AP) NEW YORK – The first sign of terror was a single camera shot that suddenly appeared on every television set: a skyscraper bathed in the morning sun, smoke pouring from its side. The images grew worse, as the entire world witnessed the death and destruction of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

Whether in a bar in Tahiti or office building in New York, television was the central gathering place for people to experience 9/11.

The Associated Press spoke to some viewers who watched it all unfold on TV, and to those who were part of conveying the event and its aftermath on air.

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