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CBS Cameraman Who Filmed 9/11 Collapse Around Him Talks To Show That Airs At 7pm On Sundays
By BSN Staff, . BSN Network. Satire.
NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2026 -- Mark LaGanga, a CBS News cameraman who was present at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001 and kept his camera rolling as the North Tower came down on top of him, has reflected on the experience in a new interview with 60 Minutes digital, the streaming arm of 60 Minutes, which itself is the television arm of CBS News, which is the journalism arm of a corporation that also owns Paramount, BET, and the exclusive broadcast rights to several bowl games.
The interview marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of LaGanga's footage, 29 minutes of continuous video shot between the fall of the South Tower and the fall of the North, during which he walked through lower Manhattan documenting a scene that, by every available measure, no one should have been walking through.
LaGanga told 60 Minutes digital that he did not fully process what was happening around him. This is either a remarkable statement about human dissociation under trauma or a very normal thing for a man with a camera to say, since the entire premise of having a camera is that looking through it turns the unbearable into a framing problem.
"We wanted to honor Mark's story and the broader legacy of that day," said a CBS spokesperson who asked not to be named, which is an interesting preference for someone at a news organization. "60 Minutes digital is the ideal home for this kind of long-form reflective content."
Long-form reflective content. The North Tower fell on a man and CBS called it long-form reflective content.
The footage itself has been described by journalists, historians and documentary filmmakers as singular and invaluable. LaGanga captured images that no one else got, from angles that required being somewhere a person should not be, which is more or less the definition of great war photography and also the definition of a situation that HR would flag immediately if reviewed today.
For his part, LaGanga has spent twenty-five years not talking about it very much, which is the behavior of a psychologically coherent human being, and which 60 Minutes digital has now helpfully resolved.
The network noted that the full interview is available exclusively on CBSNews.com, a website that also hosts segments about labrador retrievers who learned to detect cancer and a sixteen-part series on inflation at the grocery store.
Labrador retrievers who detect cancer. Footage of the North Tower falling. Inflation. All on the same website, under the same logo, equally one click away from the homepage that also asks if you want to enable notifications.
There are people who were not yet born on September 11, 2001, who are now in their mid-twenties, who will watch this interview on a phone while lying in bed, and that is not a criticism of anyone, that is just where we are.
LaGanga said he hopes the footage helps people understand what happened that day. CBS hopes the footage drives traffic during the anniversary news cycle, which is a goal so nakedly compatible with the first one that nobody has to say it out loud.
The interview is available now. 60 Minutes airs Sundays at 7.
The story we are making fun of: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/inside-29-minutes-captured-9-11-cbs-news-cameraman-reflects-saw/