NOW with Bill Moyers
Friday, September 10 at 9PM on PBS
(Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html)

This week a special one-hour NOW documentary, "9/11: For the Record."

* Was the tragedy preventable or inevitable? You decide.

9/11: FOR THE RECORD

Critics across the country are weighing in on this Friday's NOW saying: "Of all the programs this year marking the anniversary of the attacks, "9/11: For the Record" is the must-see, a sobering, heartbreaking hour"
(NEWSDAY); "a riveting review of the missteps and failures of successive administrations" (ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS); and "Moyers details mistakes and failures that will make your jaw drop in "9/11: For the Record." (BOSTON PHOENIX).

"9/11: For the Record" addresses a critical question that continues to haunt America's national psyche: how could the most powerful nation on earth have been so utterly unprepared to protect its homeland? On the
eve of the third anniversary of 9/11, NOW analyzes the commission report and connects the dots of what happened that day and the warning signs leading up to it. Bill Moyers once again teams up with a long-time colleague, the award-winning producer Sherry Jones, to take a look at what the 9/11 Commission found. Jones, whose credits include, "Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History," highlights the agonizing close calls, missteps, and outright failures of two administrations and America's intelligence and security agencies in the months and years leading up to 9/11.

CHAT WITH PRODUCER SHERRY JONES AT WASHINGTONPOST.COM

Award-winning producer Sherry Jones will be taking your questions online about "9/11: For the Record" at the Washingtonpost.com on Friday, September 10 at 2 p.m. (ET)

Log on at http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/04/pbs_jones091004.htm

NOW WITH BILL MOYERS continues online at PBS.org (www.pbs.org/now). Log on to the site to find out more about the 9/11 Commission and its recommendations; to listen to voices from the Family Steering Committee;
to get resources for researching 9/11; to take a look back at U.S. intelligence services; to get more information on what role 9/11 is playing in Election 2004; and more.

Hosted by Bill Moyers and David Brancaccio, NOW has been called "...one of the last bastions of serious journalism on TV" by the Austin-American Statesmen and "...public television at its best" by the Philadelphia Inquirer. Each week, the series sheds light on a wide range of issues confronting the nation and explores American democracy and culture through investigative reporting and interviews with major authors, leading thinkers, and artists.