Dr. David Ray Griffin - Explosive Testimony: Revelations about the Twin Towers in the 9/11 Oral Histories

Dr. David Ray Griffin continues to devote his time and energy to marshall facts and arguments to show that the official 9/11 story is not true. In this essay, Dr. Griffin discusses a collection of 9/11 oral histories recorded by the Fire Department of New York which were recorded at the end of 2001, but publicly released only on August 12, 2005. The oral histories reveal a truly astonishing preponderance of detailed commentary by firefighters giving evidence of explosions throughout the WTC complex.

The essay can be found in its entirety at the link below. A sampling of the essay is also included below:

http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20060118104223192

Explosive Testimony: Revelations about the Twin Towers in the 9/11 Oral
Histories

David Ray Griffin

“[T]here was just an explosion [in the south tower]. It seemed like on television [when] they blow up these buildings. It seemed like it was going all the way around like a belt, all these explosions.”--Firefighter Richard Banaciski

“I saw a flash flash flash [at] the lower level of the building. You know like when they demolish a building?”--Assistant Fire Commissioner Stephen Gregory

“[I]t was [like a] professional demolition where they set the charges on certain floors and then you hear 'Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop'."--Paramedic Daniel Rivera
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The above quotations come from a collection of 9/11 oral histories that, although recorded by the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) at the end of 2001, were publicly released only on August 12, 2005. Prior to that date, very few Americans knew the content of these accounts or even the fact that they existed.

Why have we not known about them until recently? Part of the answer is that the city of New York would not release them until it was forced to do so. Early in 2002, the New York Times requested copies under the freedom of information act, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration refused. So the Times, joined by several families of 9/11 victims, filed suit. After a long process, the city was finally ordered by the New York Court of Appeals to release the records (with some exceptions and redactions allowed). Included were oral histories, in interview form, provided by 503 firefighters and medical workers.1 (Emergency Medical Services had become a
division within the Fire Department.2) The Times then made these oral histories publicly available.3