Parents Urged to Avoid TV Images of 9/11

First Lady Laura Bush is asking parents to turn off the television on Sept. 11 and instead read to their children and perhaps light a memorial candle.

“Don’t let your children see the images, especially on Sept. 11, when you know it’ll probably be on television again and again--the plane hitting the building or the buildings falling,” Bush said in an interview with Univision, a Spanish-language TV network.

Photos and videotape images already are appearing in TV newscasts, newspapers and magazines as the country prepares to remember the more than 3,000 killed when hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and near Shanksville, Pa.