The government's presentation included real-time graphics showing the plane's altitude, air speed and flight path. The tape also was broadcast to 9/11 families at federal courthouses in six cities, including Newark, New Jersey, where Flight 93 originated with 33 passengers, seven crew members and four hijackers on board. ( Watch what riveted the courtroom - 2:01) Moussaoui, a 37-year-old French citizen, is the only person tried in this country for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that claimed nearly 3,000 lives.Įvery seat in the courtroom was taken as the static-filled recording was played. The 31-minute tape is punctuated by the voices of people saying they didn't want to die, cries of "No, no, no!" and "Oh, God!" and hijackers barking commands and praising Allah.
Prosecutors seeking the execution of admitted al Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui played the tape for the first time in public, closing their case with high drama. Judge’s legacy, meanwhile, is both more audacious and more complicated, as supporters redouble their efforts to have him canonized as a Catholic saint.ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (CNN) - Sounds of a 9/11 hijacking and a heroic struggle to retake the jetliner filled a courtroom Wednesday as jurors relived the final minutes of United Airlines Flight 93 through its cockpit voice recorder. Brendan Fay at a 9/11 Memorial where Father Mychal Judge's name is displayed. Next year’s tournament will spotlight “our shared values of inclusion, respect and athletic competition,” he added, including a summit on transgender athletes and a wheelchair rugby exhibition game.Īt a special dedication ceremony, a Canadian maple will be planted in Ottawa’s Ken Steele Park, where a plaque will officially designate a newly upgraded rugby pitch the Mark Bingham Field.
“All that IGR is, and all that the Bingham Cup has become, carries on Mark’s legacy,” Laberge said. Laberge said he had several discussions with Hoagland and Mark “about the importance of ensuring the tournament not just go on but continue to thrive.” She became a mother figure to players across the globe.” “A lot of members of the IGR movement were abandoned or disowned by their families. “She was a mother to us all,” Bingham Cup President Jean-François Laberge said. Even when he first started playing in a gay rugby league in San Francisco, he had his face blurred in photos in the local press. He had come out to his fraternity brothers and his mom, but he wasn’t entirely out at work. Like a lot of young gay men of his generation, Bingham struggled to some degree with his sexual orientation. A 2001 Advocate profile recalled Bingham drunkenly running on the field at a college football game to tackle the opposing team’s mascot.Īnd, according to those who knew them, they both went through a journey of accepting their sexualities. Courtesy Amanda Markīingham, once the president of the Chi Psi fraternity at University of California, Berkeley, “was the life of the party,” said Amanda Mark, his roommate in New York and longtime friend. Judge “had a bursting-at-the-sides sense of humor,” said Fay, who co-produced the 2006 documentary “Saint of 9/11.” “He loved to sing and was a real jokester, with a laugh that would fill a room.” Mark Bingham, right, with friends.
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