25 Years Later, Annapolis Resident Kia Baskerville Reflects on Covering President Bush on September 11
Twenty five years after the September 11 terrorist attacks changed the nation, longtime Annapolis resident Kia Baskerville is reflecting on the extraordinary day she experienced from a vantage point few others shared, traveling with President George W. Bush as a CBS News producer. Ms. Baskerville, who has lived in Annapolis for 24 years, was traveling with the president on September 11, 2001, after receiving what she described as a last-minute assignment to Florida. She was filling in for CBS News White House correspondent John Roberts, and the day was expected to include a presidential education speech and routine political coverage. Instead, it became a day she would spend the rest of her life remembering. In a reflection shared with Report Annapolis News, Ms. Baskerville recalled traveling in the presidential motorcade toward Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota when she received word that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. Her initial thought w...
