Giuliani was nicknamed “America’s Mayor” in the aftermath of 9/11 and was Time magazine’s Person of the Year in 2001.ĭebris from the collapse of the Twin Towers – including more than 2,500 contaminants – blanketed Lower Manhattan. The toxic dust is estimated to have made more than 18,000 people ill since 9/11.įirefighters, police, doctors, paramedics and other emergency workers rushed to the World Trade Center as soon as the first plane hit. “Tomorrow, New York is going to be here," he said. "And we’re going to rebuild, and we're going to be stronger than we were before I want the people of New York to be an example to the rest of the country, and the rest of the world, that terrorism can’t stop us.” New York City's Republican mayor at the time, Rudy Giuliani – photographed here leading Republican governor George Pataki and Democratic New York senator Hillary Clinton on a visit to Ground Zero – was hailed for the leadership he displayed as the city reeled from the attacks. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., on a tour of the site of the World Trade Center disaster. 12, 2001 file photo, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, center, leads New York Gov. I didn't see that picture really until I got back to the office and then started looking at my stuff on my laptop.” I have, I think, eight or nine frames of this gentleman falling, and the camera just happened to cycle in that time when he was completely vertical. And when these people were falling, I would then put my finger on the trigger of the camera and I'd hold the camera up, and I'd photograph and follow them going down, and then the camera would open and close and take the pictures as they were going down.
The camera took the picture of the falling man. The photo of a man either falling from an escape attempt or jumping to escape a slower death at the top of the smouldering, crumbling North Tower is one of the most extraordinary images of 9/11.Īhead of the 20th anniversary, AP photographer Richard Drew, who took the falling man photo, told CBS News: “I didn't take the picture. © Richard Drew, AP, Wikimedia Creative Commons The iconic "falling man" image captured by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew.
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