24-10-2015, 06:37 AM
(This post was last modified: 24-10-2015, 06:58 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
David Andrews Wrote:I was wondering as well if buildings on the streets facing the WTC complex were evacuated while the Twin Towers employees were being told to stay inside. Has anyone seen this in their reading?
Yes, that was so. Certainly NO other employees were told to return to their desks/offices once they had begun to evacuate. As far as I know, no one looked into exactly who was speaking into the PA system in the towers and telling people to return to their offices - that everything was OK - nor who told them to say that homicidal and illogical statement! In surrounding properties, there was either formal evacuation or spontaneous ones when people saw what was happening around them.
Just one news report from two days after:
Quote:There was rising anger across downtown Manhattan yesterday as more and more stories from survivors of Tuesday's assault converged on the horrific truth: that staff had been instructed to remain - or even return - inside No 2 World Trade Centre after the first tower had been hit and was in flames.Most were turned back by officials of the Port Authority, which had commissioned and supervised the building of the centre in the Sixties.
Workers had looked across the divide after 8.48am at an inferno in their twin tower, and decided to make a run for it. They were told, however, to remain in their seats.
Others, who had made it down stairwells towards - or even out into - the lobby giving out on to the street and freedom, were told to run back upstairs, so that during the crucial 15 minutes of what should have been escape, there was confusion and a two-way rush along the panic-stricken arteries of life.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass