About this episode

The episode discusses Rick Rescorla's foresight and actions leading up to the 9/11 attacks.

He spent years warning that this exact building was still a target — and running drills nobody wanted to do because of it. When the moment actually came, everything he'd built paid off in ways nobody could have predicted. Part of the 9/11 Stories series from The Conspiracy Podcast, marking 25 years since the attacks.

People in this episode

Host: The Conspiracy Podcast

Topics covered

• 9/11
• emergency preparedness
• heroism
• drills
• terrorism
• survival stories

Keywords

• Rick Rescorla
• 9/11
• terrorism
• emergency drills
• survival
• heroism
• preparedness

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