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Tami Michaels, a lifestyle reporter for KOMO, was with her husband in a hotel opposite the WTC on 9/11. They started using their video camera after the first plane hit. Her story, along with audio from the video, is here. http://www.komonews.com/news/national/57611192.html
I believe they played Kevin Cosgrove on the phone with 911 at the trial as well.
Warning: The following link leads to the final moment of a person’s life. It’s audio only, but is very depressing and shocking.
I’ve broken the link between http: and the double //
http: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz5WYf2346A
I feel so bad for that guy.
While I don’t have any desire to see people leaping to their deaths on that fateful day, I am very, very much against the suppression of those images. I don’t buy her explanation for not releasing the video; is there still a ban on that, BTW? And why come out with this now, anyway? Is she schlepping a book or something?
She hasn’t released it herself, but the trial judge released all of the trial exhibits except for seven that were sealed or classified. If you feel that you need to see it, it’s trial exhibit P200315. It can also be found on youtube.
Because KOMO was revisiting this because of the anniversary.
She’s giving the video to the 9/11 Memorial… you’re saying you don’t believe she’s doing this altruistically but because she’s banned from selling it to documentarians?
I peeked into some of those 911 calls. 
I never (at that time; still haven’t) did hear any of the cell calls made from the airplane flight that crashed into the PA field or the Pentagon. I think by that time, I was on emotional overload.
What bothers me (ok, a LOT of things bother me about all of this, that’s not my point) are the comments posted on YouTube concerning the 9/11 operators. What else can they say except “remain calm”? I feel bad that people are targeting them with their anger.
Kind of silly, given the context of all this.
I felt like Tami from KOMO’s stuff was kind of slick in a way. Not the actual audio, but the Charles Parker handling of it.
Where’s the link on Youtube?
Here.
http: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh2ee2Vciwk
I’ve broken the link between the colon and backslash as well. Warning: graphic.
Wow. My friend David was staying at that same hotel but he evacuated with everybody else and went to a relative’s house in Queens. I used to work at 195 Broadway, which is a 1920s-era building right next to the Millenium Hilton, and the hotel is right across Church Street from the WTC and is relatively narrow at that point.
David used to kid that our tickets for “The Music Man” with Craig Bierko were there for three years or so until the hotel triumphantly reopened. My old building is the nice white one right behind it in the picture, but I didn’t work there until 2006. It was weird to watch the people filing by St. Paul’s on the fifth anniversary, with its bells ringing all day, to all the ceremonies.
I’m subscribing to the thread, but I don’t know if I’ll ever feel like listening to or watching this stuff.
I suggest if you do want to listen, listen to the Kevin Cosgrove call I linked to above.
It’s worth it for history’s sake.