Ep. - 1401 - THE STORY OF WELLES CROWTHER THE MAN WITH THE RED BANDANA
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.4 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Kate revisits her 2020 interview with Alison Crowther, mother of Welles Crowther—the young man remembered as The Man in the Red Bandana. Welles, 24, was a rookie equities trader at Sandler O’Neil from Upper Nyack, N.Y., who died in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
In the South Tower, he tied a red bandana across his face as protection and became a rescuer, guiding people down stairwells and returning again and again to help others. He is credited with saving at least 18 lives before perishing alongside New York City firefighters when the tower collapsed.
His story has been told in several documentaries, including The Man in the Red Bandana (ESPN) and Man in Red Bandana (Amazon Prime), but his legacy lives on most powerfully through the voices of those he saved—and through his mother, Alison.
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| 1:02.0 | September 11th, 2001, began like any other day. |
| 1:05.0 | It was a crisp, clear morning in the northeast. |
| 1:10.0 | The kind where the sky seems endless, and the air carried the promise of early fall. People boarded subways, |
| 1:12.7 | drove into the city, grabbed their morning coffee, and made their way into offices. There was |
| 1:18.5 | no forewarning that life as we knew it was about to fracture. Before that day, the world felt different. |
| 1:25.2 | We live with a certain innocence, one that allowed us to believe that |
| 1:28.8 | horrific events of mass destruction could not happen here, not on American soil. But in a matter of |
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