![]() ![]() (However, other accounts claim he'd reached it by dialing "0" on the Airfone. It would be on his mind to call me, to protect me." According to some accounts, he reached the call center because his call was automatically routed there when his attempt at reaching his wife failed. I feel fairly confident that it was Todd. She said: "When I picked it up, it was dead air. According to a summary of passenger phone calls presented at the 2006 trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, Beamer tried making this call just before 9:44 a.m., but it had been "terminated upon connection." His wife has recalled that she heard her phone ring twice before stopping, and then, moments later, ringing once more. However, before reaching the call center, Todd Beamer had supposedly been trying to call his wife, but was simply unable to get through. Jefferson has recalled: "I asked if he wanted to be connected to his wife." But, "he said no, that he did not want to upset her as they were expecting their third child in January." In fact, he sounded so tranquil it made me begin to doubt the authenticity and urgency of his call." She told Beamer's wife: "If I hadn't known it was a real hijacking, I'd have thought it was a crank call, because Todd was so rational and methodical about what he was doing." Īt some point during the call, Beamer said he did not think he was going to survive, telling Jefferson: "I know we're not going to make it out of here." He gave her his home phone number and said: "If I don't make it out of this, would you please call my family and let them know how much I love them?" Yet he refused offers to be put through to his wife. e stayed calm through the entire conversation." In her 2006 book, Called, Jefferson wrote: "is voice was devoid of any stress. ![]() Jefferson recalled: "Todd, when he came to me, he was calm. all the way to the end." Very fortunate indeed this was, because if the call had become disconnected there would have been no "Let's roll" slogan for the war on terror.Ī further oddity was Todd Beamer's remarkable calmness, despite the catastrophic situation he was in. kept thinking, This call is going to get dropped! Yet Todd stayed connected. In her 2002 book, his wife Lisa Beamer revealed that Jefferson had informed her "it was a miracle that Todd's call hadn't been disconnected." The reason: "Because of the enormous number of calls that day, the GTE systems overloaded and lines were being disconnected all around her as she sat at the operator's station outside of Chicago, talking to Todd. The first thing that was odd about this call is the simple fact that Beamer was able to talk to Jefferson continuously for 13 minutes. At around 9:58 a.m., he put the phone down and was heard saying to someone else: "You ready? OK. Before declaring his famous last words, Beamer said some of the passengers were going to try and seize control of the plane. Being a devout Christian, he asked Jefferson to recite the Lord's Prayer with him, and then recited the 23rd Psalm. He also talked about his pregnant wife and two young sons. He explained to her that his plane had been hijacked, and, assisted by a flight attendant sitting next to him, provided details about the flight. It's also commemorated in popular songs." The London Evening Standard called Beamer's final words "a symbol of America's determination to fight back." Rowland Morgan, author of the book Flight 93 Revealed, concluded: "Truly, the Let's Roll slogan had become a call to arms-just at a time the White House needed it most." Yet, an examination of Todd Beamer's phone call reveals numerous oddities, coincidences, and seeming impossibilities.įor 13 minutes, Beamer had spoken with Lisa Jefferson, a customer service supervisor at GTE Airfone's Chicago call center. By May 2002, the Washington Post reported, Beamer's phrase "Let's roll" had been "Embraced and promoted by President Bush as a patriotic battle cry," and was "now emblazoned on Air Force fighter planes, city firetrucks, school athletic jerseys, and countless T-shirts, baseball caps and souvenir buttons. Without this now-famous call to battle, 9/11 would arguably have been less effective in motivating the public to get behind the war on terror. It was at the end of this call that Beamer was heard declaring: "Let's roll," before joining a passenger revolt against the terrorists. A key element of the official 9/11 story is the phone call Todd Beamer made from United Airlines Flight 93 shortly before it supposedly crashed in rural Pennsylvania. ![]()
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