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9/11 Responder: NYPD Officer Christine Famiglietti
Christine Famiglietti is a former New York City Police Officer. She spent much of September 11 with a group of 25 fellow officers who were held in reserve in case there were more attacks. She was first assigned to Ground Zero on September 12, 2011.
This interview is part of an oral history project that began in an unlikely place: the office of Long Island medical doctor Benjamin Luft.
Shortly after 9/11, Dr. Luft helped start a clinic at Stony Brook University Medical Center to treat the chronic illnesses suffered by the responders who rushed to Ground Zero to help.
As he treated cops, firefighters, construction workers and others, Luft heard their personal stories of what happened during the attacks and the months of recovery work at the World Trade Center site.
As Scott Pelley reports on the "60 Minutes" broadcast this week, Dr. Luft listened to their stories in his examining room for 8 years when he realized that his patients were the authors of one of the most dramatic chapters of American history.
WATCH SCOTT PELLEY'S FULL REPORT
With his own money, a few donations, and a small, mostly volunteer staff, Dr. Luft started recording interviews with 9/11 responders from all walks of life. Those interviews have been turned into a documentary and also a book, called "We're Not Leaving! 9/11 Responders Tell Their Stories of Courage, Sacrifice and Renewal." You can find out more about this project at www.911respondersremember.org.
To see more excerpts from Dr. Luft's remarkable interviews, click on the faces above or go back to the start by clicking here.
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