The Falling Man

I’ve never been able to get over the horror of seeing people jump out of upper-floor windows in The World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, when death by smoke and fire was their only other alternative.

Although several images of falling people were captured live, the networks had no stomach for re-running the footage, and rarely mentioned it. Today, unfortunately, that story would lead the broadcast, and be re-run endlessly.

Over the past twenty years, books and articles have documented that horror, but nothing has made it any less disturbing.