7: The Bodies at the Brooks Brothers

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🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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There's a Brooks Brothers store across the street from the World Trade Center in New York. Shortly after the attacks on September 11, a young doctor named Sandeep Jauhar headed to ground zero to help. He ended up at the store, which was transformed into a makeshift morgue. Suddenly, he’s put in charge, which was the last thing he wanted. This is a story of ties and white collared shirts, and how heroism is often improvised.

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0:00.0	A quick note before we start, this episode is about 9-11.
0:04.8	Some parts are graphic and maybe difficult to listen to.
0:15.3	Every morning, I head into a skyscraper in Lower Manhattan.
0:18.4	It's called One Liberty Plaza, and it's imposing, even a little ominous looking, 54 stories
0:24.4	of steel painted black.
0:27.5	Looking at it from the west, I climb up some steps and pass a huge Brooks Brothers store.
0:32.6	On the first floor, in the window, there are pictures of models and perfect conservative
0:36.9	oxfords or archile sweaters.
0:40.0	On September 11, 2001, when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center across the street, the
0:45.7	paper and rubble from the collapsing buildings piled up on those steps.
0:50.0	That One Liberty Plaza building, which is just to the east of the world trade.
0:54.6	And some of those windows were blown out.
0:57.0	Rumors spread fast.
0:58.8	They saw the building starting to twist, and then said they saw some windows starting to
1:04.8	break.
1:05.8	But One Liberty Plaza steel held up.
1:11.4	Our office is in that building now.
1:13.4	And ever since we moved in, I've thought about what it looked like around here 17 years
1:17.4	ago.
1:18.5	What was grand zero across the street is now glass towers and a transportation hub that
1:23.5	looks like a white winged caterpillar.
1:26.2	This was, and is, a hub of capitalism too.
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