The Eleventh Day_ The History and Legacy of 9_11 - Anthony Summers [234]
42 “littering”: int. Robert Byrne, TF, 12/7/01;
43 Pilots: ibid., NYPD Call Routing & Message Dispatch Report, 7/23/02, “NYPD folder,” B9, NY Office files, CF, CR, 309, 551n176.
44 10:28: CR, 311;
45 “do a little rock”: int. Carletti;
46 “explosions”/“pop”/“thunderous”: int. Craig Carlsen, TF, 1/25/02, int. Pfeifer;
47 “the entire”: int. Dean Beltrami, TF, 12/17/01;
48 “looking like”: int. Bell;
49 “I opened up”: int. James Basile, TF, 10/17/01;
50 “This beautiful”: Staff Statement 13, CO;
51 twenty seconds: see note at source entry for “9:59,” above.
52 alarms: Lance, 419;
53 343: CR, 311;
54 firefighters killed: Smith, 193;
55 Ganci: int. Mosiello, Bernstein, 149, 231;
56 brother Kevin: http://americanhistory.si.edu/September11, www.septembereleven.net;
57 families: Smith, 33, 53, 15, 44, 349, Damon DiMarco, Tower Stories, NY: Revolution, 2004, 189, Langewiesche, 70, 131–, 145–;
58 Port Authority/NYPD dead: CR, 311;
59 Morrone: Port Authority press release, 8/13/02, www.PANYNJ.gov;
60 5 dead PAPD: William Keegan with David Bart, Closure, NY: Touchstone, 2006, 67;
61 policewoman: Smith, 67, NY Daily News, 3/24/02, www.irishtribute.com entry for Moira Smith.
62 “The number”: transcript of press conference, CNN, 9/11/01;
63 7,000: John Ashcroft cited in MFR 04020543, 12/17/03, & see Knight Ridder report, 10/11/01.
64 2,760: The authors’ rendering of the total number of 9/11 deaths in New York City includes the ten hijackers of the two planes that hit the Trade Center. The figure used in the 9/11 Commission Report did not include the hijackers, nor did it include three victims injured that day whose deaths were registered later outside New York. The total used here does not include those deemed to have died of illnesses contracted as a result of 9/11, an issue that will be covered elsewhere (CR, 311, 552n188, “World Trade Center Operational Statistics,” Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, 1/30/09, NYT, 7/22/04, ed. Robyn Gershon, High Rise Building Evacuation, Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2006, 19, CR, 552n188);
65 other countries: NYT, 4/19/02;
66 immigrants: Hoy, cited by AM New York, 9/7/06.
67 Ground Zero: The term “Ground Zero” appears to have been used for the first time on the evening of 9/11, by CBS reporter Jim Axelrod (CBS News, 9/11/01, video at www.archive.org);
68 “All that remained”/final throes: Langewiesche, 6, 4, www.national911memorial.org;
69 lesser giants: frontispiece, ibid., “World Trade Center Building Performance Study,” Washington, D.C.: FEMA, May 2002, 3–.
70 WTC 7: “Final Report on the Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7,” Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster, Washington, D.C.: NIST, 11/08, NCSTAR 1A, 4.2. There has been a long-running controversy about the collapse of WTC 7—the thrust of it being the suggestion that the building collapsed not solely because of fire and damage but, skeptics suggest, because explosives were used. The controversy will be covered in Ch. 11;
71 Verizon: MFR 04018174, 2/25/04, DiMarco, 302–, Smith, 198–;
72 NY Stock Exchange: MFR 03013078, 12/11/03, MFR 04016224, 1/21/04;
73 American Stock Exchange: MFR 04014516, 1/14/04;
74 “visiting”: MFR 04017265, 12/18/03;
75 NASDAQ: MFR 04014517, 1/14/04;
76 Federal Reserve NY: MFR 04016224, 1/21/04;
77 Greenspan: MFR 04014512, 1/9/04, MFR 04018180, 1/20/04, MFR 04016224, 1/21/04;
78 liquidity/ATMs: MFR 04014512, 1/9/04, MFR 04016224, 1/21/04, MFR 04018180, 1/20/04;
79 $83/95 billion: Real Estate Weekly, 9/11/02.
CHAPTER 9
1 “Ambulances going”: int. Michael Cahill, TF, 10/17/01;
2 Melisi: “America Rebuilds,” transcript of int. Melisi, www.pbs.org.
3 Two civilians: They were Tom Canavan, who had worked at First Union Bank on the 47th floor of the North Tower, and a second, unknown man who escaped with him (USA Today, 9/5/02).
4 Jonas & rescued group: “A Day in September,