William Kelly Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 (edited) Mystery surrounds loss of records, art on 9/11 By CRISTIAN SALAZAR and RANDY HERSCHAFT Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Letters written by Helen Keller. Forty-thousand photographic negatives of John F. Kennedy taken by the president's personal cameraman. Sculptures by Alexander Calder and Auguste Rodin. The 1921 agreement that created the agency that built the World Trade Center. Besides ending nearly 3,000 lives, destroying planes and reducing buildings to tons of rubble and ash, the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks destroyed tens of thousands of records, irreplaceable historical documents and art... Daily Record | Morris County NJ | AP Wire The Kennedy negatives, by photographer Jacques Lowe, had been stowed away in a fireproof vault at 5 World Trade Center, a nine-story building in the complex. Helen Keller International, whose offices burned up when its building, a block from the trade center, was struck by debris, lost a modest archive. Only two books and a bust of Keller survived.... Jacques Lowe - About Jacques Lowe - The Kennedy Collection Edited July 31, 2011 by William Kelly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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