Safety Precautions

Season 16

Engineers had to consider all possible events that might happen in a high rise building.

Before they could sign off on the design for the World Trade Center, engineer Leslie Robertson and his team had to consider all possible events that might take place in a high rise building. One of these possibilities was that of an airplane impact—there had been two incidences of aircraft impact on New York City skyscrapers at that time.

AIR DATE 9/9/03

Camilo Jose Vergara, Photographer

Camilo Jose Vergara, Photographer

Ed Koch, New York City Mayor, 1978-1989

Ed Koch, New York City Mayor, 1978-1989

Leslie Robertson, Engineer

Leslie Robertson, Engineer

Mike Wallace, Historian

Mike Wallace, Historian

Chapter 1 | Emma Goldman

Chapter 1 | Emma Goldman

The Design of the Twin Towers

The Design of the Twin Towers

Safety Precautions

Safety Precautions

Prefabrication for the Twin Towers

Prefabrication for the Twin Towers

Engineering for High Winds

Engineering for High Winds

Construction of the World Trade Center

Construction of the World Trade Center

James Baldwin from "The Negro and the American Promise"

James Baldwin from "The Negro and the American Promise"

Introduction to "The Negro and the American Promise"

Introduction to "The Negro and the American Promise"

Malcolm X on "The Negro and the American Promise"

Malcolm X on "The Negro and the American Promise"

Martin Luther King on "The Negro and the American Promise"

Martin Luther King on "The Negro and the American Promise"

Emma Goldman and Opposition to the First World War

Emma Goldman and Opposition to the First World War

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