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Jan 7, 2022, 8 tweets

"I wonder to this day...did her father survive?"

Telegraph photographer Heathcliff O'Malley discusses how capturing 9/11 still haunts him 🧵👇

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/0/w…

⚫️Heathcliff O'Malley's story is the first episode in a video and podcast series 'I Witnessed History', featuring Telegraph journalists who were on the frontline of some of recent history's most important events

"It was like a beautiful summer's day, then I heard this enormous roar"

Heathcliff, a veteran photographer with The Telegraph, had been sent to cover New York Fashion Week.

⚫️It was September 11, 2001

📞His phone rang.

There were reports of a plane crash at the World Trade Center and he was asked to take a look

⚫️It is a moment that plays on his mind to this day

Heathcliff takes us through that unforgettable morning in Manhattan, from the dust, noise and chaos, to a quietly haunting moment with a woman searching for her father

🔎Watch the video here: telegraph.co.uk/world-news/0/w…

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