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The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

The Untold Story Of A 9/11 Hijacker

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

FOX News Podcasts

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4.6775 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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This week, Martha is joined by author James Reston Jr., to discuss his new historical novel, The 19th Hijacker. With the help of archives and research, James takes listeners through a fictional account of what lead up to that day and delves into the mind of one of the terrorists involved, who pondered his choice to join the 9/11 hijackers. He explains the challenges he faced in wanting to explore this tragic story, while also humanizing the people that caused it. Follow Martha on Twitter: @MarthaMacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This This year, we remember the 20th anniversary and those lost on September 11, 2001. 20 years later, we're still trying to understand the reasoning behind this horrific act of terror on America. Over 3,000 people

0:56.9

lost their lives that day, the aftermath from disease exposures at ground zero, nearly doubling

1:02.5

the death toll. And that continues to rise. James Reston Jr., author of the new book, The 19th

1:09.6

Hijacker, a novel of 9-11, delves into the mind of one of the

1:15.5

terrorists involved through a fictionalized account of what happened leading up to that day,

1:20.9

hoping to answer the, quote, unfathomable why that led to a day that none of us will ever forget.

1:30.2

He joins me now for his untold story.

1:32.7

James, thank you very much for being here.

1:34.0

Good to have you today.

1:35.4

Thanks for your interest.

1:37.0

So tell me a little bit about, you've written, I think, 18 books and three plays,

1:42.2

and several of those books, which are very well known, deal with

1:45.9

the relationship between Christianity and Islam.

1:49.4

So obviously the roots of all of that lead you to interest in this enormous topic of

1:56.0

9-11 as we head toward the 20th anniversary.

1:58.6

What made you decide to write this from the perspective of

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