Richard Drew Quotes


We've already seen how it's going to come in, in a truck, like it did at Oklahoma City at the Federal building or it's going to come in by plane, like it did at the World Trade Center.


Citations

Drew, Richard. Interview. CNN.com, Cable News Network, 2001.

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  • Born: December 6, 1946
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Photographer

Richard Drew is an Associated Press photo-journalist. In 2001, he took the photo entitled The Falling Man, which captured the image of a man falling from the World Trade Center towers following the September 11 attacks. A British documentary 9/11: The Falling Man about the photo premiered on the Discovery Times channel on September 10, 2007.