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September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Timeline November 2001Background history -- September -- October -- November -- December
Thursday, November 1, 2001
Afternoon: Deputy Mayor [Anthony P. Coles]? meets with the two firefighter union leaders, Fire Capt. [Peter L. Gorman]?, president of the [Uniformed Fire Officers Association]? and [Kevin E. Gallagher]?, president of the [Uniformed Firefighters Association]?, at City Hall to discuss the firefighters' unhappiness with the October 31 decision.
Night: The unions fax a notice to the New York firefighters to hold a demonstration on Friday morning.
Near midnight: Rudy Giuliani calls from [Yankee Stadium]? at the [World Series]? to Fire Commissioner [Thomas Von Essen]? about talk of a protest.
Friday, November 2, 2001
approx. 10:30 a.m. EST Emotions spill over into violence at a two-hour protest by several hundred to a thousand firefighters near City Hall, beginning at West and Chambers Streets, to protest Giuliani's October 31st ruling to reduce the number of firefighters permitted at the World Trade Center site from 64 to 25. After firefighter Mike Heffernan, brother of [John Heffernan]?, retired fire captain Bill Butler, father of [Tommy Butler]?, and [Kevin E. Gallagher]?, the president of the [Uniformed Firefighters Association]?, speak, the assembled protesters push aside a barricade and begin walking south down West Street. At the next barricade the police move in, punches are thrown, and firefighters handcuffed. Both sides shout for understanding, and the conflict quickly subsides. The firefighters then march out to the applause of construction workers, the protest breaking up around 12:30 p.m.
12 firefighters (including four ranking fire officers and one fire marshal) are arrested and taken to the 28th Precinct station house in central Harlem. 5 police officers are injured, two with black eyes and facial trauma, three with neck, shoulder and back injuries.
Monday, November 12 2001
2001 crash of American Airlines Flight 587 (formerly NY planecrash III) - (early indications a few hours after the crash are that it is not terrorist-related.)
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See also: World Trade Center -- Pentagon -- New York City -- Washington, D.C. -- AA Flight 11 -- UA Flight 75 -- AA Flight 77 -- UA Flight 93 -- U.S. Department of Defense -- terrorism -- domestic terrorism -- Osama Bin Laden -- al-Qaeda-- Taliban -- Northern Alliance -- Afghanistan -- collective trauma -- racism -- imperialism -- September 11