![]() ![]() As for that I would have had to leave where I was on the floor To go in my office to record it, and at that point, I told him, I said I’m not gonna leave you Todd, I’m gonna stay right here with you I didn’t want him to hang up. Lisa Beamer asked Jefferson if she happened to have a tape of the last call from Todd, to which Jefferson replied: “No, actually, no I don’t. These transcripts were released from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), according to Fenton. I didn’t want him to feel like it was totally hopeless.”Īs shown in documents uploaded by the 9/11 Document Archive on Scribd - run by Kevin Fenton, the author of " Disconnecting the Dots: How 9/11 Was Allowed to Happen," - the transcripts referenced include Jefferson’s own recollections, and recordings of conversations between Jefferson and Lisa Beamer, Todd’s widow. She told CBS News that she made a conscious decision not to tell Beamer about the World Trade Center: “I wanted him to have hope, I wanted him to think he still had a chance. ![]() Jefferson never told Beamer about the other hijackings. Our country is under attack….and I’m afraid that your plane may be part of their plan. It crashed into the Pentagon in Washington DC. Lisa: A third plane was taken over by terrorists. Lisa: Todd….I have to tell you the truth….it’s very bad. She told him that hijackers had crashed two planes into the World Trade Center……Lisa is that true? A guy, Jeremy, was talking to his wife just before the hijacking started. A few passengers with cell phones have made calls to relatives. It claims that Jefferson told Beamer about the other flights that had crashed into the Twin Towers, as per this excerpt: The transcript includes fake dialogue that never actually occurred.Ī key element of the “transcript” is particularly questionable. We learned that while elements of this “transcript” were pulled from Jefferson’s account of the conversation, testimonials from the time, and other sources, there was no recorded version of the full conversation. Many shared the alleged transcript of that call from an article on Eternity News, which appears to be a Christian-focused website, claiming it was the full conversation between the two of them. The passenger, Beamer, who was part of a group trying to take the plane back from the hijackers, called GTE, the company that provided the phone service on United Airlines flights. An article began circulating that purported to be the full transcript of a call between a Todd Beamer, a passenger on that flight, and a phone operator. ![]() On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, many remembered the heroic efforts of the passengers to prevent the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93, which was taken over by al-Qaida and ended up crashing in an empty field in Pennsylvania. There was no full tape of their call, as Jefferson did not record it. “Quite frankly, I’m not buying it,” she told the New York Times.Elements of the alleged transcript of the call between Beamer and Jefferson are pulled from Jefferson’s own account of what they spoke about and are accurate in that respect, but other portions of the transcript are incorrect. and then, somewhere along the way, internalized it as my own experience.”Ĭhand, however, is not convinced. “Finding it utterly charming and its message indelible, I must have clipped and pasted it into my file of ‘stories to tell that have a message I want to share.’ I have told the story verbally so many times over the years that I had it memorized. “All I can say now - because I am truly mystified and taken aback by this - is that someone must have sent it to me over the Internet ten years or so ago,” he wrote. But yesterday he wrote an apology to readers and said he must have unknowingly internalized the story. Walsch's blog has been taken off the Beliefnet site. It has been circulating on the internet ever since. It turns out the story was originally written – in nearly identical form – by a writer named Candy Chand, who published it 10 years ago in Clarity, a spiritual magazine. In the story, the children held up letters that were meant to spell out the words, "Christmas Love." But one child held the letter "m" upside down, so the message read "Christ was Love" instead. Walsch had written a story about what he said was a Christmas concert at his son's school 20 years ago. Neale Donald Walsch, author of the " Conversations with God" series, admitted yesterday in his blog on the Beliefnet website that a Christmas essay he had passed off as his own was actually written by someone else.
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