What Happened at Emma E. Booker School on the Morning of September 11th?

June 11, 2002 | UPDATE June 12, 2002

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

Have you wondered if there was a videotape of Mr. Bush's visit to the Florida elementary school reading class?

Well, BuzzFlash did some web surfing and found, much to our amazement, a video account of Bush's September 11th morning. Where did we discover it? On the Emma E. Booker Elementary School website, that's where.

[Because of the high demand for this video, we've created a separate link page HERE.]

What will you learn from this eerie videotape? Well, watch it and see for yourself -- unless it gets scrubbed before you have a chance to view it. (Note: The video is 11 minutes long and 23 megabytes large, a lengthy download. On slower connections, it can take more than 30 minutes to view).

It appears the videotape cuts off a little early from Bush's classroom visit, but otherwise a picture is worth a thousand words.

At the end of his stay, after continuing his "reading lesson" -- even after informed of an attack on the second World Trade Center (at 4:31 minutes into the movie) -- Bush finally made a brief statement, in which he promised to return to Washington, D.C.

Well, we all know what happened after that.

He ran like the dickens from D.C. (to get "out of harm's way"), as Rove and company concocted two lies to explain why Bush was AWOL once again from service to America. The White House claimed that the flight that hit the Pentagon was headed for the White House, which radar scans proved was not true. The White House also claimed it received a call threatening Air Force One, which it later admitted wasn't true.

In any case, watch the videotape. You won't forget it.

Then tell us about your reaction at buzzflash@buzzflash.com.

The videotape was presumably made at taxpayer's expense, so let us know if it suddenly disappears from the Florida public school district site.

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

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UPDATE

SEPTEMBER 11TH BUSH VIDEO REMOVED FROM EMMA E. BOOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEBSITE

June 12th, 11:00 PM EST

The Emma E. Booker School, where George W. Bush spent the morning of September llth listening to a reading lesson and a story about a goat, has scrubbed the edited video that they took of the event, and which Buzzflash discovered and made known to the Internet community.

You can no longer access the video at:

http://www.sarasota.k12.fl.us/emma/9.11.01/movies/scsb.bush.mov

And the link to the video has been removed from their September 11th remembrance page:

http://www.sarasota.k12.fl.us/emma/9.11.01/9.11.01.index.html

But, never fear, BuzzFlash has three alternative mirrored versions that you can find at:

http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/2002/06/12_BookerLinks.html

If you have server space and want to ensure the survival of the record of Bush's visit, contact us at BuzzFlash@Buzzflash.com and we will add your URL to the list of mirrored links.

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