Sunday. This was a Mysterious Illness that caught everybodys attention. Highly lethal, and it started to spread, people died. This was on the heels of 9 11. It was chaos. We didnt know what was going to happen next. We knew it was intentional but we didnt know who was doing it. [theme music] welcome to how it really happened. Im jesse l. Martin. A suspicious letter arrives in the mail. Inside the envelope, a white powder. The fbi responds because today, thoughts immediately turned to terrorism. That fear was born out of an attack in september 2001. Just one week after the tragedy of 9 11, powderlaced letters began to make their way through the us postal system. The potential of murder by mail gripped the country with fear and launched one of the largest investigations in fbi history. This is how it really happened. [music playing] [people screaming] get out get out look out look out look out today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of
This was a Mysterious Illness that caught everybodys attention. Highly lethal, and it started to spread, people died. This was on the heels of 9 11. It was chaos. We didnt know what was going to happen next. We knew it was intentional but we didnt know who was doing it. [theme music] welcome to how it really happened. Im jesse l. Martin. A suspicious letter arrives in the mail. Inside the envelope, a white powder. The fbi responds because today, thoughts immediately turned to terrorism. That fear was born out of an attack in september 2001. Just one week after the tragedy of 9 11, powderlaced letters began to make their way through the us postal system. The potential of murder by mail gripped the country with fear and launched one of the largest investigations in fbi history. This is how it really happened. [music playing] [people screaming] get out get out look out look out look out today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of delibera
quite calm, funnily enough, saying, do you think we ve had it? suddenly, there was an almighty crash and a shell came and it plum hit the vehicle, went right through to the bottom. when the dust cleared, i turned round and the man laying where you are to me, he was dead and black from head to foot, cos he must have taken the whole force of the blast. and all the others, the company commander, sergeant major, the driver they were all killed except me. i remember when i got myself up and found out they were all dead and ifelt this burning, i thought, i must be on fire. i remember going on the ground and rolling and that didn t do much good. so that was a nasty experience, being the only person of seven who survived. live from london. this is bbc news. d day veterans are at the heart of commemorations in normandy on the 80th anniversary of the allied landings on the beaches of normandy. our obligation to remember them, what they stood for and what they achieved for us all
so turn your radio dials to radio four at 1029. i m very glad that you corrected that because hopefully it means that i won t be late. but you said it s a premier. are you going to dress up because i haven t got a cocktail dress? i don t think. i m not feeling like red carpet ready. that doesn t happen in an election campaign. 0h, laura, i can tell you re a tv person, because the thing is, with radio, it doesn t matter what you re wearing. you can say you re wearing a ball gown and people like, all right. but you know, what is an innovation, chris mason, because he s not dashing around the country for once, he s got aftershave on and it hasn t worn off because of a day of sweating. well, also, more to the point i have got, because it s because of the d day commemorations, i ve had a quieter day, which means and this is dangerous. i have come in to do newscasts and something other than a suit and tie. and therefore, the sort of, you know, the wardrobe that hasn t been sort of signed off
was he hiding in plain sight? and could it happen again? this is something that could be taken out of a lab, put in an envelope, dropped in a mailbox, and people would die. robert stevens the first to die. natural cause or my husband s death certificate said homicide. originally from england, the 70s, stevens and his wife moved to florida. he worked for america media incorporated, a tabloid publisher. no one could say they didn t like him. it s full of life, he loved everybody. in early october, 2001, stevens has what seems like the flu. two days later, slurred speech and a trip to the hospital. it s anthrax. now i get shivers. and then she said, the cdc the fbi, and the president has been informed. i was in shock. robert stevens dies the next day. anthrax had shut down his vital organs. he was just the perfect person to me. and i miss him. my heart is still not in one piece yet. labwork reveals the anthrax that killed stevens called the a strain. it wa