Rudy Giuliani, mayor, New York City: All of a sudden I saw a man at a window, must have been the 100th floor, 101st, 102nd floor, North Tower. He threw himself out the window. I froze, stopped, and watched him come all the way down. It was a totally shocking experience, unlike any I’ve ever had before. I leaned over to the police commissioner and said, “This is much worse than we thought. It’s off the charts.” We had practiced a lot of things—anthrax, sarin gas, airplane crashes, building collapses, hostage situations, derailed trains, West Nile virus. I was pretty confident that we were the
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