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A Passion for News Costs a Photographer His Life:
On Sept 11, 2001, veteran freelance news photographer Bill Biggart was walking his dogs with his wife, Wendy Doremus, near their home in downtown Manhattan. A little after 8:45am, they noticed an unusual cloud in the clear blue sky. Someone on the street yelled that a plane had just hit the World Trade Center. Biggart ran home for his cameras.
Doremus called Biggart on his cell phone after the first tower collapsed. He said, "I'm with the firemen and I'm safe and I'll meet you in 20 minutes." He never made that appointment. Four days later, Doremus learned that Biggart's body had been found in the rubble near the second collapsed tower. Biggart, 54, was the only working journalist killed covering the terrorist attack.
Rescue workers recovered Biggart's three cameras, two camera bags, notes, press credentials, wedding ring and other personal effects. The cameras contained nearly 300 images he had shot that morning. Some of the recovered film was damaged, but digital images from his Canon D30 survived. Shown here are some of the images he took moments before he died. |