Recovery of 9/11 safe deposit box contents in the WTC's J.P. Morgan Chase vault
By Paul F. Renda
I'm a survivor of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. On 9/11, my cousin Tommy Farino died at the World Trade Center. He was a New York Fire Department Captain, the youngest captain in Engine Company 26 history. MY FAMILY BURIED AN EMPTY COFFIN; THE DNA WAS COOKED OUT OF THE RECOVERED BONES.
The video that you are seeing has only been shown to about 25 people. I'm publishing it here now on RU-vid because it's really a historical document. I think young children can identify with the coins and stamps that were recovered.
My safety deposit box was located in the J.P. Morgan Chase vault. It was just below street level. Almost all the coins I recovered had horrific heat damage; the stamps were reduced to carbonized outlines. These stamps flew on the Challenger shuttle in 1984. My safe deposit box was in the main zone of destruction and was subjected to 1,800 degrees for 7-10 days. My coins went from MS65+ to VF in the time it took to dig them out.
J.P. Morgan Chase did offer me a settlement for my property. This settlement amounted to $2,000. Before 9/11, my estimate was that the coins were worth between $60,000 and $65,000. I didn't take the settlement; I was like a deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming car. The settlement also contained the clause that you could not divulge any information about the recovery or what happened at the World Trade Center and the J.P. Morgan vault.
In a sense, I see the stamps as a historical document that flew on the ill-fated Challenger. They survived 9/11 as carbonized outlines. Maybe these stamps should reside in the Smithsonian Institute?
I have a link below to show you what the stamps look like.
www.mysticstamp.com/viewProducts.asp?sku.
I have donate some the coins and the unedited video of the recovery to several museums, including the Franklin Institute and the 9/11 Museum at the World Trade Center.
I've given some these coins as gifts. In the future, I might decide to sell some of them, but I am not sure at this point. In another link, I wrote some poetry, short stories, and hacker stories.
groundreport.com/profile/12431/
Follow the link below if you want to meet me. I will be giving a talk at the HOPE conference in July in New York City.
x.hope.net/
If you Google, my name Paul F. Renda, you will see some of the content that I created for hacker conferences. The Renda and Farino families thank you very much for reading this and viewing this video. MY PLEDGE THE FAMILIES THAT BURIED EMPTY COFFINS FOLLOWING 9/11 WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTON.
8 июн 2014
