Photographs of the carnage of Sept. 11 and tape-recorded final phone calls from victims in the World Trade Center were posted Monday by a federal court, a total of 1,202 exhibits from the Zacarias Moussaoui trial.
The videos, photographs and taped phone calls on the court's website were graphic in some cases, leading the court to mark 18 of the exhibits "discretion advised."
The U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., said it is the first criminal case for which a federal court has provided access to all exhibits online.
All of the materials historians would have been able to get their hands on, anyway. What pleases me is that all of this material is being collected in one place on the web where high schoolers or collegians studying history can easily access it. Also, as a History major who spent a lot of time submitting requests for materials at the Wisconsin State Historical Society, the convenience factor is huge. You can view the exhibits here.
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