{"id":4072,"date":"2011-04-23T21:48:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T01:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/?p=4072"},"modified":"2011-04-23T21:48:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T01:48:18","slug":"9-11-marra-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/?p=4072","title":{"rendered":"9-11: Marra Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

D R A F T<\/strong><\/p>\n

The purpose of this article is to upload specific audio clips from the Commission Staff interview with Steve Marra, Andrews Tower.\u00a0 The interview was recorded and archived by NARA.\u00a0 NARA provided the audio file to me.<\/p>\n

The interview was conducted by Miles Kara, Kevin Shaefer, and Lisa Sullivan on Mar 11, 2004.\u00a0 I was the lead on this interview.\u00a0 09110016 Marra Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Marra was working Approach Control during the World Trade Center events and thought he was in the Tower when the Pentagon was hit, as tower supervisor.\u00a0 Staff went over the logs with him and determined that David Maddox and Roosevelt Thompson were switching off as tower supervisor.\u00a0 Marra had gone upstairs to help and was manning the telephone.\u00a0 Both Maddox and Thompson, according to Marra, were then working at Potomac TRACON.\u00a0 09110124 Maddox and Thompson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Marra did not believe the Secret Service manned its position at Andrews Tower that morning.\u00a0 09110410 Marra no Secret Service<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Concerning the direction to scramble the F-16s at Andrews, Marra was certain that the call came from Karen Pontius at FAA Headquarters and perhaps through her from a person, unidentified, sitting in front of her.\u00a0 He recalled the time to be right after the Pentagon was hit.\u00a0 09110459 Marra Pontius Scramble Order<\/a><\/strong> 09110703 Marra Unknown Person<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Marra the announcement that was made on ATIS (Automated Terminal Information System) was made by David Maddox.\u00a0 Someone in FAA or the Air Force gave him the direction.\u00a0 There was no precedence for that announcement and the words were likely crafted by Maddox, based on direction given to him.\u00a0 09110901Marra The Maddox Announcement<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Marra distinguished the three specific Air Force entities at issue, the 113th (DC Guard), Base Operations, and the Command Post.\u00a0 The Post, according to Marra was part of the 89th Wing (Presidential support).\u00a0 The 89th Command Post ran the base, according to Marra.\u00a0 09111036 Marra 3 Air Force entities at Andrews<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Marra was asked a global question as to whether there was anything else we needed to know that we had not asked about.\u00a0 09111157 Marra Catchall Question<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

D R A F T The purpose of this article is to upload specific audio clips from the Commission Staff interview with Steve Marra, Andrews Tower.\u00a0 The interview was recorded and archived by NARA.\u00a0 NARA provided the audio file to me. The interview was conducted by Miles Kara, Kevin Shaefer, and Lisa Sullivan on Mar … Continue reading 9-11: Marra Interview<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-z-drafts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4072"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4086,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions\/4086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}