Who is 911 falling man

Junod: At the time. It was what happened behind him, and what happened above him. That summer, I went to the top of the World Trade Center for the first time. We went to the top, and we looked out the window. If they had made the decision to jump, what had influenced that decision? The thing about the photo that is haunting to this moment is that, when you look at the photo, it looked as if a decision had been made.

There was a certain resolute quality to it. There was a certain peace to it that drew me in immediately. If he were not falling, he might very well be flying. He appears relaxed, hurtling through the air. He appears comfortable in the grip of unimaginable motion. What were you thinking of, starting that way?

Junod: I wrote the first sentence. The hair stood up on my arms. From then on, in the account of the picture itself, it was a little bit like writing by Ouija board. Curtis: What conclusion did you come to about why these pictures should not be suppressed?

Junod: I think that there was a judgment being made about how to die. About the deaths that people suffered, and that some were honorable and some are not. And the story, if it has any purpose at all besides telling the story of all the people that photo represents, it was to go against that idea. I went into that story totally thinking I was going to call people up, and they were going to yell at me for calling them.

Because the fact is that people had no information about how their loved ones died. They had no idea. Drew's image, which came to be known as the "Falling Man," appeared in a number of newspapers the next day. Many people found the lonesome vision too shocking. One high-profile viewer was mesmerized by its deeply-human pull.

Five years ago, Sir Elton John told "Sunday Morning" correspondent Anthony Mason that that he had to purchase the photograph for his personal collection. It's probably one of the most perfect photographs ever taken.

Twenty years after the attack, it captures, perhaps more than any other picture, the horror of that day. Drew said, "It's still sort of that 'verboten' picture. And that's what it's really about. The identity of the falling man has never been determined, though journalists have found two possibilities.

But Drew was able to help identify another victim on that day: "I can't remember how many actual people I photographed during it, but it wasn't just one or two people.

And he was wondering if he could look at my photographs at the AP. I actually sat with him on my laptop, and we looked at it, frame by frame, of the people falling from the building. And he saw it. Yeah, he said, 'Oh, that's her. For a month after the attack, Drew photographed the aftermath: "And my cell phone rang.

Some jumped alone. Some jumped in groups. Some jumped in pairs. Drew, watching the horror unfold, began to take pictures. By this stage both towers had been hit and were billowing smoke.

Then he heard the boom of the south tower as it began to crumble. It toppled around him, "exploding like a mushroom". Some of those in the south tower included Joseph Visciano, whose family told news.

He had only been working for six weeks. He was training to be a trader. He was so happy he got the job. Images and footage of the horror unfolding in New York were seen around the world.

But one photo captured the tragedy like no other: The Falling Man. Drew told The Telegraph that while his subject's story is still shrouded in mystery, he "likes to think of him as the unknown soldier, let him represent everyone for whom that was their fate that day".

We saw pictures of the rescuers, we saw pictures of the planes hitting the building, we saw the recovery effort and now we can also try to accept that as part of what really happened that day.

As newspapers published shocking images from the most photographed and videotaped day in history, some were deemed too awful, too confronting for the public to face. In particular, the pictures of the estimated people who fell to their death from the Twin Towers. After The New York Times ran the photo on page seven the next day, it was branded "disturbing", "exploitative" and "voyeuristic".

It was struck from the record, until two years later it appeared in an Esquire article in In the days following the terrorist attack, which killed almost people, images of heroism and triumph in the midst of tragedy were emblazoned across newspaper front pages.

But as time passed, there were calls for Drew's image to be investigated; who was the Falling Man and what was his story? Captured at 9.