9/11 - The Falling Man
Categories: Disaster, Mystery, 9/11
Duration: 01:11:27
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The Falling Man refers to a photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew, depicting a man falling from the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 9:41:15 a.m. during the September 11 attacks in New York City.
The subject of the image – whose identity remains uncertain, although attempts have been made to identify him – was one of the people trapped on the upper floors of the skyscraper who apparently chose to jump rather than die from the fire and smoke.
As many as 200 people jumped to their deaths that day; there was no time to recover or identify those who were forced to jump prior to the collapse of the towers.
Officially, all deaths in the attacks except those of the hijackers were ruled to be homicides (as opposed to suicides), and the New York City medical examiner’s office stated that it does not classify the people who fell to their deaths on September 11 as “jumpers”: “A ‘jumper’ is somebody who goes to the office in the morning knowing that they will commit suicide… These people were forced out by the smoke and flames or blown out.”
9/11: The Falling Man is a 2006 documentary film about the picture and the story behind it. It was made by American filmmaker Henry Singer and filmed by Richard Numeroff, a New York-based director of photography. The film is loosely based on Junod’s Esquire story. It also drew its material from photographer Lyle Owerko’s pictures of falling people.
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| 2012-01-21 11:39:52 | for an award???????// navyservant48 |
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| So..Let me get this straight. This insensitive bastard wanted to run the photo because he said IT WAS A PULLITZER PRIZE PHOTO? He ran it for the award????????????????/ And this jackass goes home to his family with a clear conscience? Lord have mercy on these media scum, and dont turn this back around on me or the viewers who had or have no intention of wanting to see those horrifying pics just to know the story.I could do without them,they do not need to be a part of the documentary to "add feeling,or shock" us.That is hogshit! |
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| 2012-01-21 11:34:19 | omg navyservant48 |
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| This "photographer" compares his job to a carpenter,but there's one big problem with his logic.Carpenters build and help lives,restore,so to speak.Photographers tear apart lives and insult,offend,destroy,cause pain many times. What a pompous ass thing to say by him,but I consider his character and the job he is in helped to make him that way,as well as the type pf people they pick to be journalists.Those who will do anything for the dollar..ANYTHING,no matter how many lives they affect | ||
| 2012-01-21 11:23:08 | JOUNALIST OR NOT navyservant48 |
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| that photographer is an insensitive uncaring bastard,like most are.All they want is a paycheck,no matter the cost.When he said the bodies sounded like a sack of cement,He is an uncaring a-hole. | ||
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