Her Sister Died in 9-11. She Almost Got Justice.
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
After 12 years of “pretrial proceedings,” and 23 years after the crime in question, prosecutors announced that a plea deal had been reached with Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and two of his accomplices, who were accused of planning the Sept. 11 attacks. When Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin canceled the deal, some relatives of those who died on 9/11 were devastated.
Guest: Terry Kay Rockefeller, founding member of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows.
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| 0:34.0 | Every year around now, people like Terry Rockefeller face a decision. |
| 0:44.6 | How to memorialize their loved ones, people who are killed, |
| 0:48.0 | 23 years back, on 9-11. |
| 0:51.3 | I think it's always a very difficult time of year. |
| 0:58.1 | It's a marker of a passage of time and I reflect a lot on what might have been. |
| 1:07.0 | Terry's sister Laura was 10 years younger, a singer and an actress who was at the World Trade Center to do a day job. |
| 1:17.0 | You know, I know so many other family members. |
| 1:21.0 | We start talking about, we start talking about it, you know, in |
| 1:26.9 | August, oh it's another year. And you know, then there starts being press and you start, you know, feeling that the |
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