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Eyewitness; Lower Manhattan.(9/11 Five Years Later)(Brief article)

Crain's Chicago Business, September, 2006 by Levine, Daniel Rome

Byline: Daniel Rome Levine John DeKoker, 35 9/11: Unemployed, New York Now: Law student, DePaul University, Chicago With the north tower already smoldering, the fireball he saw exploding out of the World Trade Center's south tower sent John DeKoker running back to his apartment a few blocks away.

There, he grabbed his Pentax 35-millimeter camera and headed to a drugstore, where he bought three rolls of black-and-white film. Standing just outside the police barricades less than a mile from the burning buildings, he loaded his camera and began snapping photos of the chaos unfolding in Lower Manhattan. Some were running away from the burning towers. Others calmly watched. One man accosted Mr. DeKoker with a rambling monologue. "I saw people jumping,''...

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