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"Conspiracy" Theories!
Who killed Wild Bill, Preacher Smith, or a Priest in Lead?
Who killed President Kennedy or blew up the World Trade Center?
The answer, (according to some), is the "JEWS" did it… why?
(According to them, it is obvious, after you see who gained)!
I think these people are missing the point, the thinking is more about money, and greed! More importantly, I think, is understanding the need for death.
Most people do not need to be killed, they only have to be controlled, and most can be. Once in a while, when they cannot be controlled, you control someone who CAN control them, and they take care of it for you… If that is not possible, only then do you kill them.
Normally, when it comes to killing, you get the best, if you want it done right! The best is probably the US Military, (or trained militia), the next best is the main Mafia, after that is the other Mafia, run by the Jewish people with the most money here in America, (also maybe in Italy or other areas). Let us start with who killed the President, and why…
JFK was about to put an end to the Vietnam War, before most people knew it had even Started. (It was not mentioned much in the news then, we were only there to help the French out for a while… only a few thousand troops and some money, as far as we knew). This war became a "contract" war, everything produced was sent over on contract, not to be returned... This causes more money to be printed and used, without causing inflation or hurting the American economy, this helps many groups of people!
The people making a great deal of money in the name of defense, in other words, the contractors of the Dept. of Defense were behind the death of our leader. But this was a hard thing to do, and they needed help from others, maybe the Jewish Mafia, they are the most effective, maybe it was the regular Mafia, they are the meanest, or maybe it was our own internal people, they had much to gain!
Many were going to get some sweet contracts out of the deal and would be able to enjoy a nice war against Communism, (which also takes some heat off the various wars the Jewish backed people are constantly waging against the Muslim people).
As I understand it there were a total of three teams trained ahead of time to kill him and there were six shooters on the team set up for one of the sites, (if it happened at the curve in the road by the book depository).
I have two independent sources that gave me information about one of the men on this team, the team that actually did the job trained to do.
One source listened to the man describe where he went after he fired his round and left town. She feed him a meal and helped to hide him… Her father helped him out of the country, and on to China, where he joined the enemy to stay alive!
Meyja was even a little sweet on him and considered having sex with the nice young American at the time, but he did not want to stay in her country so she didn’t. I’m kind of glad she didn’t too… we may have never married!
Meyja said he told her he had spent part of his life in Dallas while growing up and had lived close to the Daily Plaza area. He said he spent a lot of time running through the underground sewer system, (playing hide and seek with his friends), and knew it well! He said when he was given the option of which "position" he wanted; he chose the one below ground level. After the job was complete he went a different way out and set up his own escape plan ahead of time, unknown to his bosses. He was in fact, (told her dad), the only one to survive of that team of six.
He also named Oswald as one of the team, and he said he did not trust him either. (Saying only that he seemed to have his own agenda as well).
You must understand something about this kind of a man, a trained sniper for the military, and a soldier first, a man second… If you have never been in the military it is hard to understand why a "true" American would do such a thing as kill a leader without reservation. And especially the leader of his own country, the president of the United States!
One of the first things I learned in the military, and one of the hardest things I learned in fact, was to do this… Kill without thinking, follow orders without question, and giving orders you did not agree with. (I had the biggest problem with that last one, I was always questioning authority, and it got me in trouble several times.) Even in the "Old West" very few were given the most commonly used description, (now known as a gunslinger), namely a "Man-killer". That man had to be able to fire his gun into the middle of another man without thinking about it first, or pausing, even for a split second. It is true it helped to be fast and accurate, (those kind lived the longest), but most important... it had to be done without reservation!
When you raise your hand and do the pledge, especially during any time your country is at war, you agree to follow the chain of command. Now you are rank E-1, the lowest, and you only learn to take orders… Until you are rank E-3 you never give orders in fact, but you learn a great deal about taking orders seriously. At rank E-3 I got a squad, at rank E-4 I even got to "call cadence" and give orders to a whole company, (200 men). After I got E-5 I began to question orders passed down to me and tried to argue for my men several times. This was a big mistake; it cost me time and pay before I learned not to question authority. It would have cost me rank if we had not been losing the war at the time, it should have cost me my life too, but instead it saved it.__________That explanation will appear in time at a link later placed right here. (It is of no importance to most, I will complete that web page after I have nothing else to do).
I qualified as a sharpshooter too, but refused to follow up on it, I did not even like killing animals, other than snakes, (one of them got my grandmother once and she almost died)… The DI agreed with me, I was too "compassionate" to be a good killer he told me once! Other people are different than me, I noticed that at a young age. Some of the boys I played with when I was young liked to kill things just to see them die, one boy liked to hang critters. (Caution, this web page is graphic, and personal)... I feel one should not speak of such serious things unless they are relaying true information actually experienced themselves. Writing about the two most important things people do that cannot be forgiven easily, (killing and sex), is very touchy. Do not click here if you are not well balanced and open minded!
As far as I know, (in my mind and many wise people I have spoken to about it), there is no going back from the two most major sins on this earth, involving killing and sex. Once you have done it you have DONE IT, people think anyway, or I should say men think, (they normally cannot feel, they can only think)! Women are different, they can "feel" such things deeply, and for a long time after too! (They are much more involved in "feeling" a sexual encounter... also in taking a life, mostly because they understand the feeling involved in creating a life, and they have the ability to feel it is wrong, and not just automatically do it again, without feeling). Often once a man has done something like this wrong, they rationalize they have now done it and there is no going back, it is easier for them to continue to do it after that, they feel very little!
Only men are normally involved in serious matters like killing, conspiracies, especially raping and pillaging, very few women can do it, or keep doing it. Mostly because "feelings" get in the way and they cannot be trusted to do as trained every time they are told, men will do it without question once trained well enough!
Kennedy's death was caused mainly by one bullet, but more than one man was needed to make sure one of the bullets fired at the time killed him for sure. The man I know about was later working for the other side, and came across the other killer, it happened in this way.
In 1960 he became a sniper for our government, normally only killing enemies of our nation, very few leaders of other countries, mostly only high-ranking officers and the like.
He is close to death now and is alone, is fearless and has killed many, including women and children in his early life, has much to fear when he dies and is judged... And I think he knows it too. I also think he feels if he "squares" a few details of major importance to some... his judgment may go a bit better!
After an hour of drinking and about 10 valium he began to talk very quiet... He even asked if we could go take a ride and talk in the car in case his home was bugged.
After falling 3 times I got him in the car... I was about out of gas and we pulled into the forest and turned off the car, I continued to "fake" taking my turn at the bottle and he finished it, and began to tell me a very scary story... It was about a job he was told to do in Dallas in the early 60's, he was part of a team, all equipped with old "cheap" rifles, and good scopes... They trained on these "stupid" rifles, (he said they had much better at the time, but could not use them for this job).
Before the training was complete he was "pulled off" and sent to Vietnam to help the French out on another job... He gave me the name of two on this team, he knew them well at the time, they were in his "field" and had trained for other jobs before. (I can find no record of them anywhere though).
The training was to hit a tennis ball moving toward you at 10 mph at a slight angle, or away from you at the same speed, at three different angles???
Two trained for the "toward" shot, 4 for the back shot. All were on a level plane except one, it was a forward shot and it came from slightly below!
We had been in the car for an hour and I was freezing because I didn't have enough gas to keep it running... He was on a "roll" now and went into much detail about the practice, he had a lot of antifreeze in him but I was faking my drinking and was by this time too cold to care, ask him to "cut to the chase".
He found out by accident that this was only one of three teams; he thought all were military trained personal, all snipers at one time.
He never saw anyone involved in this entire operation until a number of years later while on a mission in Cambodia... This was two tours of duty, and three purple hearts later when this happened to him.
His spotter said another sniper was spotting on them and the shooter signaled, "truce" and they merged!
Come to find out, the other shooter was now working for the other side, but had recognized him before he fired the shot that would have killed him!!
The guy told him he was one of the men who killed the President, and the only one to get away that he knew of, he thought all others had been killed right away! He only got away because he "played along," but had a better escape route figured out, (because he knew more about his escape route than he let on). He used it successfully, and had been in the Orient ever since.
He then told him he was a marked man and he should join the other side if he wanted to live very long...
He declined and they both went their own ways... He told me he then quit the military and changed his name, melted his prints, told his family goodbye, and left Florida for the Deadwood area... Has been here ever since!
I always wondered why he would never let me take a picture of him and why he always worked for cash only.
He said he has never drove a car since then, or went to a dentist or a doctor. He is not paranoid, just careful.
I have never know him to drink much before this, and everything he has ever told me was truthful...
I do not have more information than this and need more before I am positive it is true. If anyone would like to help confirm this story, or has better information, please send it to me. Follow the directions on the "killing of the Priest" page, and be careful. This is not information to be taken lightly, many have died because they spoke up about that killing already and I do not want you to be the next one!
Now about the trade center and who was behind all those planes being crashed into the Twin Towers and other targets. I do not feel it was any one group other than terrorist that did it, but I think others knew and did nothing, and still others financed it! It is not easy to figure to out either, but several groups of people stand out as having a lot more to do with it than has been talked about so far on the net or anywhere else.
One of the groups spoken of most is the rich Jewish people of the New York area, another group that stands out are again the people behind all the money made in large expensive wars.
It is common to expect this belief from "somewhat" poor people, and also rich people who do not feel they are rich enough. (Not trusting the Jews, or at least blaming them, and thinking they are behind some evil things that happens, when big money is at stake.)
I am still not sure about this one either; there is not enough evidence to prove it either way yet, maybe there will never be. I do know that more of the Jewish people should have died than did in the towers, but I do not know for sure why that is, maybe they were just all late for work, and maybe they were warned to not go in, not sure. They were other factors too, it was the first day of school for many parents, and it was also the day they voted for a new mayor in New York. It may have been planned for that day as well, so more cameras would be ready to film... but a clear and correct warning? I really wonder about that, maybe it was just another warning, of many received that month, but one that made more sense than all the others.
I do know the "poorer" of the Jewish were not warned; those working in rescue and maintenance, and that makes me madder that anything! (It is also possible they had little control over not going to work on time, or responding to the event and being killed while doing their job).
I really doubt the Jewish people or the higher government were warned about that attack any differently than they were warned about many other attacks that did not happened for one reason or another, there are terrorist attack warnings almost daily! This warning may have just been more accurate than most, to those listening in the European area. And I think the Jewish people listened more carefully to this one than the American people who are in charge of such things. In that sense they may be guilty of something, but it can hardly be considered any kind of a conspiracy, more of a case of better "intelligence."
Osama Bin "forgotten" was obliviously behind the attack, and we supported his rise to power in a way, as he was helping Afghanistan to fight off the Russians in the past. The connection with Saddam Hussein may have been made as well, that will come out in his trial, along with the fact that we supported him at one time too… (This is more of a case of "the enemy of your enemy becomes your friend," than a case of supporting a bad person in time of war or any other time.) In fact, "time will tell" on all of this, the people speaking out against other "powerful groups" of people should spend more "time" on other things that can produce more positive results!
Or as the wisest person I contacted about this "Jewish conspiracy theory" advised me… my time would be better spent out picking up trash, and a clearer head and better feeling would be the result of such effort.
You can find over a hundred sites on this disaster, and who is said to be behind it, the most outrageous is:
http://www.serendipity.li/wtc.html
This conspiracy theory page says just about everybody did it... CIA, Mossad, and the Mafia
bombed the twin towers. This one is so far to the left side of things they should place a disclaimer at the top of the page. (Like a few other ridiculous sites blaming Jews and any other rich and powerful groups, mostly just because they are a rich and powerful group)! It is people like this that cause the figure of 75% to be stated as "amount of false information" residing on the Internet!The most interesting story found on the net was a combination of efforts, but it goes as follows:
The walls, the ceiling and bookshelves crumbled. Sleigh, 63, manager of technical consistency at the American Bureau of Shipping, crawled from the rubble. He looked up at exposed steel beams and the concrete underside of the 92nd floor. He didn't know it at the time, but that concrete floor was the bottom of a tomb for more than 1,300 people. Nobody survived on the floors above him. But on his floor and below, an amazing story unfolded: Nearly everyone lived.
The line between life and death that morning was as straight as a steel beam. Everyone on the 92nd floor died. Everyone on the 91st floor lived.
When a second jet hit the south tower 16
1/2 minutes later, the pattern was virtually the same. In each tower, 99% of the occupants below the crash survived. At the impact area and above, survival was limited to just a handful of people in the south tower who made an amazing escape.Four hundred seventy-nine rescue workers died making the evacuation a success. The sacrifice of New York firefighters and police is well-known. But 113 others, from low-paid security guards to white-collar workers at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the buildings' owner, stood their ground with firefighters and cops.
From a distance of three months, it is clear that the early picture of what happened inside the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 was incomplete and often inaccurate. Many basic details that permeate news reports and the public consciousness are wrong, including the number of deaths, the number of people in the buildings, even the exact times and locations of the two jet crashes.
USA TODAY spent two months finding out precisely what happened in the 1 hour, 42 minutes and 5 seconds from the first jet crash to the last building collapse. The newspaper identified where 95% of the victims worked or were located at the time of the attacks. In addition, it matched floor plans, architectural drawings and photographs to the accounts of survivors and victims.
The key findings:
The evacuation was a success.
Nearly everyone who could get out did get out. The Port Authority had revised its evacuation plan for the buildings after a terrorist bomb exploded in a Trade Center garage in 1993. On Sept. 11, those changes saved hundreds, possibly thousands, of lives. The buildings, sturdily constructed, exquisitely engineered and equipped with stairwells bigger than building codes require, stood just long enough to give potential survivors a chance to get out.The number of dead was overestimated. The actual death toll is about 2,800, including rescue workers and the 157 people on the two jets. The New York Police Department's official estimate has fallen from 6,659 on Sept. 24 to 3,011 on Dec. 18. It continues to decline as police remove duplicate and inaccurate missing-persons reports. The initial estimates led to claims that Sept. 11 was the bloodiest day in U.S. history. According to USA TODAY's current count, the death toll from all four hijackings is 3,040, excluding the 19 hijackers. That's more than the 2,388 who died at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, but fewer than the 3,654 who died Sept. 17, 1862, in the Civil War battle at Antietam, Md.
The buildings were half-empty when the jets struck. USA TODAY estimates 5,000 to 7,000 people were in each tower when the attack began. Earlier estimates ranged from 10,000 to 25,000 per tower. But company head counts show many desks were empty at 8:46 a.m. There were few tourists; the observation deck wasn't scheduled to open until 9:30 a.m.
Most of the dead were in the north tower, the first one hit and the second to collapse. USA TODAY documented 1,434 who died in the north tower vs. 599 in the south tower. (Locations could not be determined for 147 of the building occupants.) An analysis shows that two-thirds of south tower occupants evacuated the upper floors during the 16
1/2 minutes between the attacks. In the north tower, an average of 78 people died per floor at the crash area and above, compared with 19 people per floor in the south tower.One stairway in the south tower remained open above the crash, but few used it to escape. Stairway A, one of three, was unobstructed from top to bottom. The jet crashed into the 78th through 84th floors of the south tower. A few people escaped from the 78th floor down these stairs. One person went down the stairs from the 81st floor, two from the 84th floor and one from the 91st. Others went up these stairs in search of a helicopter rescue that wasn't possible because of heavy smoke on the rooftop.
Elevator mechanics left the buildings after the second jet hit. Eighty-three mechanics from ACE Elevator of Palisades Park, N.J., left the buildings when the second jet hit. Dozens of people were trapped inside elevators at the time, according to the Port Authority. An elevator mechanic from another company rushed to the buildings from down the street and died trying to rescue people.
A complex drama
The unscripted drama inside the World Trade Center is a complex story. It involved 10,000 to 15,000 people spread over 200 acres of floor space inside two buildings. There were 99 elevators and three stairwells in each building. Ten bystanders were killed outside by falling debris.
Columbia University scientists recorded the precise time of the attacks on a seismograph connected to an atomic clock. The north tower was struck at 8:46:26 a.m., two to five minutes earlier than in most accounts. The impact registered magnitude-0.9 on the seismograph, equal to a small earthquake. The south tower was hit at 9:02:54 a.m.
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The south tower collapsed first, at 9:59:04 a.m. The north tower fell at 10:28:31 a.m.
Nearly everyone's fate inside the two 110-story towers was sealed the moment the jets hit.
In the north tower, American Airlines Flight 11 struck the 93rd through 98th floors and wrecked the stairwells on the 92nd floor. At the crash and above, 1,360 people died; none survived. Below the crash line, 72 died and more than 4,000 survived. Floors could not be determined for two people who died in the north tower.
In the south tower, United Airlines Flight 175 struck the 78th through 84th floors. The higher wing cut into the offices of Euro Brokers, a financial trading firm. The fuselage tore into Fuji Bank offices on the 79th through 82nd floors.
Of 599 fatalities in the south tower, only four worked below the crash area. Nobody who worked on the 58th floor or lower is known to have died.
Although the official death toll stayed above 4,000 until Nov. 19, the inaccuracy of the estimates became apparent just days after the attack. All major companies with employees in the towers estimated the number of missing and presumed dead within 48 hours of the attacks, and their estimates were far lower than police figures.
Morgan Stanley, the largest tenant in the World Trade Center, occupied 21 floors in the south tower between the 43rd and 74th floors. Of 2,500 employees who worked in the building, only six died, including three security officials who stayed to evacuate the building.
Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, the second-largest tenant, occupied 10 floors in the north tower between the 17th and 31st floors. All but nine of its 1,900 employees survived.
"The evacuation was a remarkable success story," says Jake Pauls, a safety consultant who is the nation's leading expert on stairway design and safety.
Design aided escape
That evacuation began on the drawing board.
The World Trade Center had an excellent stair system, much better than required by building codes — both when it was built 30 years ago and now. Each tower had three stairwells. New York City building codes require two.
Stairways A and C, on opposite sides of the building's core, were 44 inches wide. In the center, Stairway B was 56 inches wide.
The bigger the stairway, the faster an evacuation can proceed. In 44-inch stairways, a person must turn sideways to let another pass — for example, a rescuer heading up. In a 56-inch stairway, two people can pass comfortably.
The World Trade Center stairwells allowed thousands to get out despite panic and smoke.
Lessons learned from terrorists
On Feb. 26, 1993, terrorists exploded a bomb in a parking garage under the north tower. Six people died. The evacuation took nearly four hours in dark, smoky, poorly marked stairwells. Some people were stuck in elevators for 10 hours. The Port Authority made crucial improvements after that attack. The changes saved countless lives on Sept. 11.
The Port Authority put reflective paint on stairs, railings and stairwell doors. It added bright arrows to guide people along corridors to stairway connections. It installed loudspeakers so building managers could talk to people in their offices as well as in hallways. It gave every disabled person an evacuation chair that would let two husky men carry them down stairs. One evacuation chair was used to carry a man down from the 67th floor.
In the 1993 attack, the explosion knocked out the main power source, its backup and the fire-control command post. The Port Authority added a second source of power for safety equipment, such as fire alarms, emergency lighting and intercoms. It built two duplicate fire command posts, one in each tower. The Port Authority also put batteries in stairwell lights so a power failure wouldn't blacken the escape route. Overall, the improvements cost more than $90 million. Sprinklers, added before 1993, helped suppress fires.
Most important, building management took evacuations seriously. Evacuation drills were held every six months, sometimes to the irritation or amusement of occupants. Each floor had "fire wardens," sometimes high-ranking executives of a tenant, and they were responsible for organizing an evacuation on their floors.
"They had done a great job," says Brian Clark, a fire warden and executive vice president of Euro Brokers, located on the 84th floor of the south tower. "People knew where the stairs were."
Not fully occupied
The World Trade Center was only half-full when the first jet struck at 8:46 a.m. That took pressure off the stairwells.
Previous estimates of the number of people in each building ranged from 10,000 to 25,000. USA TODAY found that the actual number appears to have been between 5,000 and 7,000 per tower.
Many companies did head counts after the attack to determine how many employees had been in the buildings. Although a complete accounting is not possible, counts from more than 50 floors indicate the buildings were barely half full.
For example, Marsh & McLennan, an insurance company, had offices on the 93rd through 100th floors in the north tower. About 1,000 worked there; 295 were at work at the time. All died. Fred Alger Management, a money manager, occupied most of the 93rd floor. Thirty-five of 55 employees were in. They all died.
Only 25 of 55 employees were in the New York Metro Transportation Council's 82nd floor office. Three died. The receptionist was the only person in the office at the 16-employee law firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath on the 89th floor. She lived.
Several factors kept desks empty. Some people voted that morning in New York City's mayoral primary. Others took children to the first day of school. Some were on sales calls or business trips. But the biggest factor was the early hour: Many simply hadn't arrived by 8:46 a.m.
Many floors in the two 110-floor buildings were not occupied. Twelve floors in each tower were dedicated to mechanical equipment and a giant lobby.
In addition, dozens of Asian investment firms in the World Trade Center had closed their offices or cut employment sharply because of the recession in Asia. Other offices were leased but empty or under renovation. The Atlantic Bank of New York had moved out of the 106th floor of the south tower in July but was still paying rent.
Tourists were sparse at 8:46 a.m., too. The observation deck, on the 107th floor of the south tower, wasn't scheduled to open for another 45 minutes. Outside the buildings, the TKTS booth, which sold half-price tickets to Broadway shows, hadn't opened either. Most stores in the World Trade Center's busy underground shopping center were still shuttered. USA TODAY identified only one tourist who died.
Elevators: The quickest way out
Sixteen minutes, 28 seconds. That was the length of time between the first and second crashes. The fate of more than 2,000 people on the south tower's upper floors was determined by what they did during that time. Most made the right decision: They left soon after the first jet hit the north tower.
The elevator system was the hero there. Built by Otis Elevator and modernized in the 1990s, the World Trade Center's elevator system was one of the biggest and fastest in the world. The 99 passenger elevators in the south tower moved several thousand people out of harm's way before the second crash.
The elevators on the highest floors took people down to the 78th floor. In the 78th floor elevator lobby, people transferred to giant express elevators that sped to the ground in 45 seconds.
These room-sized express elevators held up to 55 people each. Every two minutes, a dozen express elevators could move 500 people from the 78th floor to the ground.
(Two giant express elevators ran non-stop from the ground to the 107th floor in each building, but they were not in service. The elevators went to the not-yet-open observation deck in the south tower and the Windows on the World restaurant in the north.)
The bottom wing of United Flight 175 ripped through the south tower's 78th floor elevator lobby. The floor exploded in flames. Walls crumbled. More than 100 people lay dead or wounded from the initial impact.
AON Corp. senior vice president Judy Wein was thrown across the lobby and broke her arm. Her boss, who had been standing next to her, died. Another colleague's legs were broken. "Goodbye, Judy, I love you," he told Wein before he died, according to her first-person account in Ladies Home Journal.
"A man with a red handkerchief over his face seemed to appear out of nowhere and pointed to the stairs. 'Anyone who can get up and walk, get up now,' he urged the other people on the floor," Wein wrote.
A small number, perhaps 10, escaped down Stairway A at the northwest corner of the building. If the jet had hit just 10 feet higher or had not tilted sharply at the last moment, the crowded elevator lobby would have escaped most of the carnage.
USA TODAY identified 76 people who worked below where the jets struck. Some victims were obese or frail, unable to finish the long walk down. Others were trapped in elevators. Some were just unlucky.
General Telecom, in an 83rd floor corner office in the north tower, suffered most. Everyone survived from the four other companies on the floor, 10 floors below the impact zone, but all 13 General Telecom workers in the office at the time perished.
After the crash, half the employees went through a kitchen and a telephone equipment room to reach an exit, General Telecom chief operating officer Bill Callahan said. The door was blocked by debris or jammed shut from the crash's impact.
When the workers turned around, the kitchen ceiling collapsed, trapping them in a 15-by-15-foot equipment room. Others were trapped in another part of the office.
The employees were in communication with the outside world throughout, sending a pager message shortly before the collapse.
On the 64th floor, five to 10 Port Authority workers gathered in a security command post equipped with video cameras and communication equipment.
"They talked about what to do and felt safer staying put than leaving the building," Port Authority spokesman Allen Morrison said. After the south tower collapsed at 9:59 a.m., they tried to get out. They did not make it.
First Union, a bank, lost four employees who worked on the north tower's 47th floor. One woman tired during the descent and stopped. Three men got outside but died when the south tower collapsed.
At Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, nine employees and two consultants died. Some deaths are understood: One man, for example, stayed on the 27th floor with a disabled friend; both died. Other deaths remain a mystery. "We suspect some were in elevators" when the plane hit, vice president Deborah Bohren said. "But we don't really know."
One survivor's story
On the north tower's 92nd floor, one floor below the crash, 69 employees from Carr Futures found themselves trapped. Most, perhaps all, survived the crash. But, in phone calls to loved ones, the employees reported that the stairwells were impassable.
They crowded together in corner rooms as the floor filled with smoke. People appear to have lived until the building fell. By phone, a mother told her son that the south tower had collapsed.
On the 91st floor in the north tower, the story was different.
At the American Bureau of Shipping, George Sleigh and his co-workers counted heads after the crash: 11 of the 22 employees were in the office. All were unhurt. Other than Sleigh's area, the office was remarkably intact. Sleigh went back for his briefcase.
The closest stairway was blocked. The second was open. The status of the third was unknown. "It was quiet and peaceful at first" in the stairwell as the employees made their way out, Sleigh recalls. "Nobody was behind us."
A few minutes later, Sleigh's office was engulfed in flames. Fifty minutes after the crash, Sleigh was out of the building.
Bruised, bloodied, covered in dust, separated from his colleagues, he was loaded into an ambulance. A police officer shouted: "Get out! Get out! The building is coming down!"
The south tower was collapsing. It was 9:59 a.m. The north tower's highest survivor was on his way to Beth Israel Hospital.
There are many more links and sites and pages by many people, but whatever happened, it was more than we can understand.
Maybe it is simply about money and power, something that can often cause strange things to happen at any time in any place!
Enough on this, time will tell… something that did not happened in the old west of Deadwood, mostly because nobody was in charge of law and order! In fact nobody was in charge of anything, some people were just more organized than others…
Let us consider the killing of some other people in Deadwood, and if the point can be proven that Jewish people had to do with it, or was it just a coincidence that some of the rich did it, and many of the rich at the time just happened to be Jewish.
For sure those who did not like him speaking out against them killed Preacher Smith… and for sure the priest in Lead was killed for speaking out too. But there were other people than the Jews involved in "fixing" prices on goods, and lowering the price of gold. There was also a group of business people who got the priest to talking, (and working/controlling his group of Catholics as well). That has more to do with the fact that more people went to church each week than anything else! Maybe because the Jewish did not have a "Temple" meeting place yet that they met in secret… And maybe it is true that they were the one and only single strongest group of businessmen, they may have started it all, and others just followed along on price fixing and other devious efforts, maybe it was the other way around. (There is much confusion about what happened throughout many changing times of power and control in Deadwood).
It is true that with the coming of law comes order, and the Jewish people did not want order to come to quickly to this town, with disorder you get price fixing, bribery, graft, and corruption… and it goes unchecked.
(We have that happening to this day in Deadwood, it is just better controlled and in more devious hands now.)
The corrupt leaders of that day had more freedom to rid themselves of anyone capable of stopping them too! They for sure did not want someone who was famous for shooting first and fastest involved in justice, maybe they contracted Wild Bill’s death, maybe they just helped it along. And maybe the jury was a bit "fixed" as well; there was more talk about that than anything else. I think much justice was a bit strange at that time, it depended on who you were, and what you had done for the people judging you, more than what you were being judged for!
This is a hard thing to decide, especially so long after the fact, other things will be researched, and I will add more to this page later on, stay tuned!
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