Have you watched the John Schroeder video? It's rather confusing. Try watching it and see if you can't make sense of what he's saying on it. He seems to say that he ascended in the North Tower and that he was in that tower when it collapsed. At another point in the video he says that he was outside the tower when it collapsed and that he almost jumped in the river to get away from it. Then he says that he watched the other tower collapse after that. Could you confirm that my mind isn't playing tricks on me here?
Okay.
Around the 3:00 mark, he says that they went back down from the 24th floor to the 3rd floor, and the stairway collapsed. He actually says that while they were on the 3rd floor, "...we got down to the 3rd floor, and that's when the stairwell collapsed on us. We had to dig our way out, now the building's coming down, we can't see nothing...".
At around 4:39, he's saying, "I was standing on the ledge (of the river), watching the building come down; I was diving in the river to Jersey...".
At 4:50, he says, '...and what happened was, uh...after that, we ran down North End Avenue, and there came the other tower. We were like, 'something's very wrong here'."
So yes, I agree with you...it doesn't make sense. He first says he's on the 3rd floor when the building is coming down, and then 1:39 later, he says he was at the edge of the river watching the building come down. So he got from the 3rd floor to the edge of the river before the building finished collapsing? How does this support a controlled demolition instead of a natural collapse, exactly?
Not to call the man a liar, but in a crazy event like that, I don't fault him for having a confusing, contradictory account. I would imagine that if I had gone through something like that, my account would be even more confusing.
The only thing that makes any sense of this is what the people who were with him confirm...that the first tower collapsed when he was on the 24th floor. That explains the enormous sound he heard, the shaking of the building, and why the basement level 'looked like a bomb went off' when they made their way back down....because debris from the collapse of the other tower had done this damage.
The Twin Towers collapsed from the TOP DOWN, so there would be no need to set off a charge in the basement in the first place!
If it were truly a 'demolitions charge', as people are trying to portray...that's the final step in a demolition, and the whole structure falls at once, starting from the bottom. You don't set off the final charge at the basement, and THEN have the building come down later. If that truly had happened, he would have never escaped the building alive...it would have come straight down. Not only that, but there would have been several, very loud explosions in sequence that preceded the final one.
THAT DID NOT HAPPEN. I challenge anyone who says it did to post a clip of the video, and point out the sequence of explosions.
Anyone that wants to pursue the issue should be prepared to read a great deal, including the accounts of people who were with Mr. Schroeder, and confirm that the collapse of the first tower occurred while they were on the 23rd-24th floor, and that's exactly why the basement level looked like it did when they made their way back down. This is supported by the people around him at the time, the physical evidence, and all video and audio sources of the events.
Here's an incredibly good summary of reports of the events surrounding John Schroeder, from people who were with him, and around him during that time. It's a LOT of reading, so be prepared (you have to keep clicking the link at the bottom of the page to move on to the next series of accounts, but it's worth it for anyone who truly wants to understand). This is an especially good primer for the amount of confusion that occurs in such a tragic, chaotic event, and why Truthers who try to capitalize on that moment in time to further their theories make me want to throw up.
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