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Unreliable Witness | Storycast

StoryCast '21: EP 13/21 9/11 Janice Brooks: Inside the South Tower

Unreliable Witness | Storycast

Sky News

True Crime, News, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3728 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Saturday September 11, 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks on the US, which resulted in almost 3000 deaths and injured 25,000 people.
At around 8 o'clock on the morning of the attacks, a group of al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes before flying them - packed with passengers - towards targets in New York and Washington D.C.
In the hours that followed, one of the deadliest attacks in US history played out live on TV screens around the world.
From London’s East End, Janice Brooks, had just moved to New York. Then aged 41, she'd started a new job with the finance firm Eurobrokers. Her new office was located on floor 84 of 2 World Trade Centre (The South Tower).
Shortly after Janice got to her desk on 9/11, the terrible chain of events that continue to mark her life, began to unfold. In this special extended episode of StoryCast 21 and using Sky News archive from the attack as it was being reported live, Janice tells the story of her escape from the upper floors of 2 World Trade Centre.

In 2021, Sky News is marking some of the century’s biggest news events through the personal stories of lives defined by unforgettable moments from the last 21-years.
9-11 Janice Brooks: Inside the South Tower is episode 13 of the 21-part series StoryCast ‘21

CREDITS

9-11 Janice Brooks: The South Tower was produced by Rob Mulhern.
Story originator and digital - Tom Gillespie
Special thanks to Janice Brooks and Since 9-11- an education programme directed at UK students.
Presented by Jayne Secker
Sound Design, Rob Mulhern
TV treatment, Victoria Hudson-Grant
Archive, Simon Windsor
Head of Radio, Sky News, Dave Terris
Design and graphics, Brian Gillingham
Social media, Chris Scott
Press and Marketing, Alexandra Horton
Email: [email protected]
For more on this story log on to www.skynews/storycast21
#StoryCast21

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0:00.0

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0:20.0

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0:22.9

Adelphi Theatre. Book your tickets yesterday. You're listening to episode 13 of Storycast 21. I'm James Secker. Saturday, September the 11th,

0:40.8

2021, marks the 20th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks on the United States, which left nearly 3,000

0:47.6

dead and injured some 25,000 people. Shortly, after 8 o'clock that morning, a group of Islamic terrorists hijacked four

0:56.7

airplanes before flying them towards landmark buildings in New York and Washington, D.C.

1:02.8

In the hours that followed, the deadliest attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor unfolded live

1:08.5

on TV screens around the world.

1:14.1

But as we struggle to make sense of what we were watching,

1:19.9

hundreds of survivors remained trapped in the upper floors of the World Trade Center in New York.

1:27.4

The episode you're about to hear is a graphic first-person account from inside to World Trade Center. All that we couldn't see in those minutes, told by someone who was just beneath the impact zone when the second plane hit.

1:35.3

This is 9-11 Janice Brooks, inside the South Tower.

1:48.8

My name is Janice Brooks.

1:52.2

I'm originally from London, from the East End of London.

1:58.8

I work for a company of money brokers called Eurobrokers, and we had an office in London.

2:03.2

I answered the telephone, I worked for the managing director I worked for the brokers if they needed cabs if I needed

2:06.8

flowers I did invoices I did typing so it was kind of a multifaceted role the

2:14.9

CEO of the company whose name was Gill he always to me, come and work for me in New York, come and work for me in New York.

2:24.5

And it was one of those, okay, what am I doing with my life kind of moments?

2:30.5

I'd been married, not for me, and I just felt that I love America.

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