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On Sept. 11, 2001, Vanessa Minter, an American Airlines reservations agent, answered Betty Ong's call from one of the hijacked planes during the terror attacks. In an exclusive interview with Jonah Kaplan, Minter recalls the flight…

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During the course of his life, New York photographer Jay Maisel, who died last month at age 95, photographed the World Trade Center thousands of times – including on 9/11, when they were destroyed. In this "Sunday Morning" report that…