Our Town With Host Andy Ockershausen - Homegrown History

No doubt, we all remember where we were on 9/11, and hearing the sounds replayed after 15 years bring back the vivid memories of the horror we all felt brought on by the events of that day. Our lives were forever changed. "Our Town" host Andy Ockershausen sat down with 34-year news veteran WMAL News Director John Matthews to relive one of the most horrific days in our town’s history. Listen now at the media player above. Andy had a tennis game that morning at Army-Navy Country Club and had just finished it. He saw smoke billowing from The Pentagon and immediately called the station to report it, and gave his eyewitness report on air. John tells us that Andy “very well may have been THE first reporter on hand” to call into any broadcast station. Andy’s one and one-half minute report – which you will hear at the beginning of the podcast - reveals his initial impressions of the terror. The information he reported to WMAL in the first minute of his report became vital to those who were first responders a