Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11Damon DiMarco's Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11 eternally preserves a monumental tragedy in American history through the voices of the people who were in Lower Manhattan and elsewhere in New York City on that fateful day. The stories DiMarco has collected come from a diverse group of human beings: individuals who managed to escape from the Towers; the bereaved of 9/11; the policemen, firemen, paramedics, reporters, and volunteers who risked their lives to help others; eyewitnesses who stood in shock on the streets below the Towers; WTC structural engineers, political experts, political dissidents, small business owners, and, of course, children whose lives will be forever impacted by the horror and chaos they witnessed. In the tradition of Studs Terkel, DiMarco's moving oral history chronicles the stories of everyone from the small group of people who miraculously made it safely down from the 89th floor of Tower 1 to the New York Times reporter trying desperately to fight her way through the fleeing crowds into Lower Manhattan, to the paramedic who set up a triage area 200 yards from the base of the Towers before they collapsed to the ordinary citizens of New York City who tried to get on with their lives in the days following the tragic event. This expanded second edition of DiMarco's literary time capsule includes follow-up interviews that track contributors' lives in the years since 9/11, as well as dozens of never-before-published photographs. |
Contents
FOREWORD BY THOMAS KEAN CHAIRMAN | 10 |
OUTSIDE THE TOWERS 134 | 24 |
GROUND ZERO AND THE VOLUNTEERS 224 | 30 |
Anna Bahney | 136 |
Jesse LuninPack | 152 |
Huston Stewart | 171 |
The Turner Family | 187 |
THE AFTERMATH 370 | 192 |
Patrick Charles Welsh | 390 |
Lauren Albert and Karol Keasler | 402 |
Kevin Killian | 411 |
Christopher Cass | 422 |
Scott Slater | 435 |
Mark Lescoezec | 449 |
Ken Longert and Fred Horne | 457 |
Jean Knee and Michael Carroll | 465 |
Dr Walter Gerasimowicz | 205 |
Joseph Afse | 218 |
Jessica Murrow | 372 |
Vincent Falivene | 383 |
John McGrath | 472 |
VIEWPOINTS | 479 |
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS 525 | |
Copyright | |