Five Years Later: Bucky Turco's 9/11 Story

Bucky Turco, publisher of Animal, has one of the more amazing 9/11 stories we’ve ever heard. He mountain-biked to the towers just as they were falling, rollerbladed to Ground Zero later in the afternoon and was asked by Diane Sawyer [above] to join her news team to shoot video that night:

Diane was handing out water and face shields to emergency personnel. At one point she turned to me and said she would “distract them” and to “just shoot everything.”

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