Lisa Lefler's Briefcase, World Trade Center
name: label: user
content: Lefler, Lisa
label: maker
content: Heritage
notes: label: Description
content: Lisa Lefler's briefcase was recovered from the World Trade Center wreckage.
label: Description
content: World Trade Center workers had varied experiences on September 11. While about 2,200 office workers were killed, over 20,000 managed to escape the Twin Towers.
label: Description
content: When the first plane struck the north tower, Lisa Lefler, an Aon Risk Services executive, immediately evacuated her 103rd-floor office in the south tower. In her haste she left her briefcase behind. Seventeen minutes after the north tower was hit the south tower was struck, cutting off the escape path above the 78th floor. Fifty-six minutes later, the entire building collapsed, killing 175 of Lefler's fellow Aon employees.
label: Description
content: Several days later, Boyd E. Harden, a rescue worker at Ground Zero, found the briefcase in the debris near Church and Liberty Streets and returned it to Lefler.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used
content: United States: New York, Manhattan, World Trade Center
topic: label: associated subject
content: September 11 Terrorist Attacks
label: related event
content: Attack on the World Trade Center
label: related event
content: September 11th Attacks
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, 9/11
label: See more items in
content: September 11
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0053.01
label: accession number
content: 2002.0053
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0053.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Briefcase
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 35 cm x 44 cm x 10 cm; 13 3/4 in x 17 5/16 in x 3 15/16 in