"On the day of the attack, ABC News anchor Peter Jennings made a candid observation about planned demolition as the cause of the South Tower's collapse. Although Jennings did not retract his statement, his co-anchor, Don Dahler, quickly stepped in to correct him. This exchange was broadcast live on the ABC network starting 20 seconds after the onset of the South Tower's destruction.
Dahler's correction of Jennings is notable for several reasons:
(1) Dahler's confidence about what he saw is curious, given that he has just watched the first collapse of a large skyscraper in history.
(2) His contention that "the top part of the building was totally involved in fire" contrasts with photographs of the event.
(3) He states that "it looked like the top part of the building was so weakened by the fire ..." but photographs do not show obvious buckling of columns prior to the collapse.
(4) The description that "... it collapsed in on itself, and it appeared to just fold down from there," contrasts with what photographs and videos show: that the building exploded outward."
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On National Television, Rudy Giuliani says he was forewarned of WTC collapse
At 1PM 9/11/01 Eastern Time, Rudy Giuliani told Peter Jennings of ABC News: "[W]e set up headquarters at 75 Barclay Street , and we were operating out of there when we were told that the World Trade Center was gonna collapse. And it did collapse before we could actually get out of the building."
Giuliani's statement that he was told the WTC was going to come down has been seen to imply foreknowledge only by those few individuals who know two things: that there would have been no reason to expect the buildings to come down unless they were known to be rigged with explosives, and that it was Giuliani's own people (in the Office of Emergency Management) who said the buildings were going to come down.
Giuliani said he was warned in advance of the collapse of the South Tower. How and where did he get this warning?
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