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The Wildest Rumors of September 11

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The Tourist Guy of 9/11
The Tourist Guy of 9/11

"Last photo" taken atop the World Trade Center, September 11, 2001?

Little more than a week after the Twin Towers fell, this image began arriving in inboxes everywhere, attached to a forwarded email claiming it was the "last tourist photo" ever taken atop the World Trade Center. The man in the picture looked like a real tourist, all right, but nothing else about the scenario added up: his expression was too oblivious, the photographer's hand too steady, the timing of the snapshot too serendipitous to be true.

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