6/2/2023 0 Comments 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer![]() ![]() ![]() New York Times reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn rely on hundreds of interviews thousands of pages of oral histories and phone, e-mail, and emergency radio transcripts. Over the next 102 minutes, each would become part of a drama for the ages, one witnessed only by the people who lived it - until now. At 8:46 AM on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the twin towers - reading e-mails, making trades, eating croissants at Windows on the World. ![]() They tell the dramatic and moving account of the struggle for life inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, when every minute counted. "New York Times" reporters Dwyer and Flynn have taken the opposite and far more revealing-approach, capturing the little-known stories of the nearly 12,000 ordinary people who took extraordinary steps to save themselves and others. Of the millions of words written about September 11, 2001, most were told from the outside looking in. "It's a bomb, let's get out of here." - "It's going to be the top story of the day." - "Mom, I'm not calling to chat." - "We have no communication established up there yet." - "Should we be staying here, or should we evacuate?" - "Get away from the door!" - "If the conditions warrant on your floor, you may wish to start an orderly evacuation." - "You can't go this way." - "The doors are locked." - "I've got a second wind." - "I'm staying with my friend." - "Tell the chief what you just told me." - "We'll come down in a few minutes." - "You don't understand." ![]()
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