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World Trade Center: Port Authority
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The poster for Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center" offers a stark depiction of the twin towers as monoliths flanking two men who defied the odds to emerge from the ruins. The two are Port Authority cops - Sgt. John McLoughlin and Officer Will Jimeno - the last two 9/11 heroes recovered alive after the towers collapsed.
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True story of Will Jimeno and John McLoughlin, two Port Authority police officers who rushed into the burning World Trade Center on 9/11 to help rescue people, but became trapped themselves when the tower collapsed. A race against time ensued to free them before their air ran out.
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Paramount Pictures film about the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center to be directed by Oliver Stone. The film, as yet untitled, is scheduled to be released next year and will tell the story of John McLoughlin and William Jimeno, the Port Authority police officers who were rescued after being trapped in the wreckage of the towers. Cage will portray McLoughlin; the role of Jimeno has not been cast.
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During the mid-1980s, a series of reports described the vulnerability of the World Trade Center to terrorist attack (see July 1985)(see November 1985)(see (Mid-1986)). Now, because of the increased risk of terrorism against the US due to the Gulf War, the New York Port Authority hires private security company Burns and Roe Securacom to prepare a further report, and tells them that the WTC is a terrorist target. Unlike previous investigators, Burns and Roe Securacom finds that the center’s shopping and pedestrian areas, rather than the underground parking garage, are the most likely targets.
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Construction of a world trade facility had been under consideration since the end of WWII. In the late 1950s the Port Authority took interest in the project and in 1962 fixed its site on the west side of Lower Manhattan on a superblock bounded by Vesey, Liberty, Church and West Streets. Architect Minoru Yamasaki was selected to design the project; architects Emery Roth & Sons handled production work, and, at the request of Yamasaki, the firm of Worthington, Skilling, Helle and Jackson served as engineers.
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Silverstein Properties is to receive $921 million in financing for the construction of three towers on the trade center site, along Greenwich Street between Vesey and Liberty Streets. The Port Authority of New York and Jersey is to receive $702 million in financing to build the Freedom Tower and the retail space in the three towers on Greenwich Street.
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