History Channel, accessed April 21, The Todd Beamer Story "Let's Roll" At the same time, the evidence shows that the contrived transcript in the post does not accurately reflect much of what was said during the call. The conversation was never recorded and an actual transcript does not exist. Our rating: Partly Falseīased on our research, we rate PARTLY FALSE a "transcript" of a phone call from Flight 93 on 9/11 that claims to memorialize the actual conversation between Beamer and Jefferson. Jefferson was, though, interviewed by the FBI after the airliner crashed. But there is no reason to believe Jefferson had any contact with the FBI while she was on the phone with Beamer. In addition, the conversation portrayed in the post has Jefferson contacting the FBI and connecting them to the call. "I wanted him to have hope," she said in the CBS interview. In fact, Jefferson has said she purposely kept the fate of the other airlines from Beamer. "The World Trade Center is gone," Jefferson purportedly tells Beamer in the post. The post also includes a moment in which Jefferson tells Beamer about the other hijacked planes. But in the interviews she gave and the official reports about her call with Beamer, there is nothing to indicate that Jefferson posed that question. The post claims that Jefferson asked where the hijackers were from. Still, the supposed conversation in the post takes creative license, and many of the details are untrue. Other elements of the imagined conversation in the post jibe with actual events, including the use of boxcutters by the hijackers to take over the plane, threats by the terrorists that there was a bomb onboard and the passengers' plan to use boiling water against the hijackers. According to Jefferson, Beamer said, "Lisa, would you recite the Lord's Prayer with me?" Jefferson did give interviews to the media and law enforcement after the plane crashed about her conversation with Beamer, and she told the FBI that she took brief notes during the call on a small Post-it notepad. Those notes are in the FBI's possession.Īlthough the conversation portrayed in the Facebook post is largely fabricated, it includes several details that are consistent with Jefferson's accounts about the call.įor example, in a CBS interview, Jefferson describes how she and Beamer prayed together, and lines of supposed dialogue in the post portray them doing that. However, the call was not taped and a legitimate transcript of the call between Beamer and Jefferson does not exist.
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