9/11: Rescue on the Water (Replay)

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🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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HISTORY This Week returns with new episodes starting September 16th! In the meantime, listen to a favorite classic from the archives. September 11, 2001. On a clear and sunny day, Captain Richard Thornton is piloting his ferry boat back and forth between New Jersey and New York City. But when he hears an airplane flying too low to the ground, he knows something is wrong. After the World Trade Center’s North Tower is struck, Thornton instinctively drives his ship down towards Lower Manhattan. He will soon be joined by countless other marine craft: ferries, fishing boats, tugboats, and more. With the roads, bridges, and trains that connect the island of Manhattan to the rest of the world shut down, this collection of civilian, commercial, and military boats manages to carry more than 500,000 survivors to safety. How did this impromptu evacuation, which was larger than Dunkirk during WWII, come together? And how does one ferry boat captain reflect on the shared sense of duty he felt on that fateful day? This episode originally aired on September 6, 2021. To stay updated: historythisweekpodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History Channel, Original Podcast.
0:03.0	Hey everyone, Sally here, and I have very good news.
0:07.0	History this week is coming back.
0:09.0	We'll have new episodes for you starting September 16th,
0:12.0	but in the meantime, we are sharing one of our
0:14.1	favorite classic episodes from the History This Week vault. And if you want to get the
0:18.7	latest updates from our team sign up at History This Week podcast.com. In the meantime, enjoy the show.
0:26.3	History this week, September 11th, 2001.
0:30.7	How available votes. This is the United States Coast Guard.
0:33.5	Anyone to help with the evacuation of Lower Manhattan.
0:37.0	Report to Governor's Island.
0:38.0	I'm Sally Helm.
0:40.0	It can be easy to forget that Manhattan is an island, even when you're right by the
0:50.1	water.
0:51.1	There's traffic, tour buses full of kids in matching t-shirts, commuters rushing
0:55.9	past you, heads down, running late. You can hear seagulls and waves in the background, but barely.
1:04.4	I was by the water recently talking to Captain Rick Thornton.
1:08.5	He drives a ferry boat every day, the commuter run,
1:11.2	we-hawk in New Jersey to Midtown Manhattan.
1:14.0	He's been in this job for decades.
1:16.5	And as we were chatting about his work, we kept getting interrupted.
1:20.5	And then, uh...
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