People of all races worked to save lives after N.Y. explosion - World Trade Center Bombing, 1993 - Brief Article

Jet, March 15, 1993

While bomb sleuths in New York City examined the crater that unknown explosives punched in a World Trade Center underground garage, killing five persons and injuring more than 1,000 in the twin 110-story skyscrapers, New York Gov. Mario Cuomo praised Blacks and Whites for their cooperation.

"There was some wonderful response here for people of the United States who happened to live in New York and New Jersey," Governor Cuomo said. "White people, Black people, men, women - 66,000 of them - helped themselves down stairways in the dark. Seven hundred and fifty firefighters, many of them risking their lives - some of them some of them Black, some of them women and police, too - worked together the way You're supposed to ... In the midst of this tragedy, we saw some of the most beautiful, some of the most efficient humanity at work than we have seen in a long time." Mayor Dinkins immediately went to the site after he returned from Japan, where he was on a trade mission.