Photographing 9/11: ‘What did they think as they jumped?’
Al Jazeera
‘It was like she was floating. I was so close I could see her face. She didn’t scream.’
It was September 2001 and I had been sent to New York to cover a boxing match for a Puerto Rican newspaper. It was a world championship bout between Puerto Rican boxer Felix Trinidad and the American boxer Bernard Hopkins. Trinidad was a good friend of mine and the paper would send me to cover most of his fights. I’d asked not to go on that particular deployment but I was told I had to go. So, on Saturday, September 8, I boarded a flight from the Puerto Rican capital, San Juan.More Related News