Beeper, Goumantie Thackurdeen
date: label: Date made
content: 2000
name: label: maker
content: Motorola Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Description: This beeper belonged to Goumatie Thackurdeen, an employee at Fiduciary Trust Corp, which was housed in the 97th floor of the South tower. The beeper was recovered from the debris of the World Trade Center.
label: Description
content: Context: When the first plane crashed into the North Tower, people in the South Tower could see falling debris and feel the heat of the explosion. Employees of Fiduciary Trust assessed the situation and began evacuating. Before leaving, Goumatie called her mother to say she was exiting the office.
label: Description
content: People began streaming into the stairwell. Shortly thereafter, a plane crashed into the South Tower, impacting the 78th-84th floors. According to newspaper reports, 99 percent of the people below the points of impact survived. Yet for those above the impact zones or trapped in elevators, there was no escape. Goumatie was one of 87 Fiduciary Trust employees killed in the attacks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: recovered
content: United States: New York, Manhattan, World Trade Center
topic: label: associated subject
content: September 11 Terrorist Attacks
label: related event
content: September 11th Attacks
label: related event
content: Attack on the World Trade Center
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, 9/11
label: See more items in
content: September 11
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Raj B. and Rambascia Thackurdeen in memory of Goutmatie Thackurdeen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0268.01
label: accession number
content: 2004.0268
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0268.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Beeper
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 cm x 6 cm x 2.5 cm; 3 9/16 in x 2 3/8 in x in