153 NYPD photos from 9/11 released on Cryptome.org
There are a bunch of photos from 9/11 that have just been released on http://cryptome.org. Some of these supposedly have not been seen.
Direct Link: http://cryptome.org/0001/wtc-nist-gjs/wtc-nist-gjs.zip
From the National Institute of Standards and Technology FOIA Release of 3,160 Electronic Records of the WTC Collapse Investigation
153 Photographs, 11 September 2001, by Detective Greg Semendinger, New York City Police Aviation (Helicopter) Unit:
http://cryptome.org/0001/wtc-nist-gjs/wtc-nist-gjs.zip (64MB)
Two dozen of these in small sizes were published by ABC News on 10 February 2010:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9796098&page=2
Chilling Aerial Photos of 9/11 Attack Released
Police aerial photos show World Trade Center collapse; 8 years later, the pictures still shock
ABC said NIST gave the network 2,779 pictures on nine CDs. The network posted 12 pictures on its Web site Monday and an additional 12 on Wednesday, including another close-up of the burning north tower and photos of rescue boats and commuter ferries docking in the Hudson River to pick up survivors. ABC initially said some of the photographs posted had never been seen before, but later backed off that assertion.
Semendinger — who took all the photos posted by ABC — said Wednesday that he had previously e-mailed some of the pictures to friends who later posted them on the Internet. Also, nine of the images were published in a book called "Above Hallowed Ground: A Photographic Record of Sept. 11" without his consent. The book was a tribute to the officers who were killed that day. Semendinger was first in the air in a search for survivors on the rooftop. He said he and his pilot watched the second plane hit the south tower from the helicopter.
He took three rolls of film with his Minolta camera, plus 245 digital shots. Semendinger said that he gave the digital images to the 9/11 Commission that investigated the attack, and that the commission evidently released the pictures to NIST.
