Object Details
- Lefler, Lisa
- Heritage
- Description
- Description: This briefcase recovered from the World Trade Center wreckage belonged to Lisa Lefler, an Aon Risk Services employee.
- Context: 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.
- 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.
- Several days later, Boyd Harden, a rescue worker at Ground Zero, found the briefcase in the debris and returned it to Lefler.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2002.0053.01
- accession number
- 2002.0053
- catalog number
- 2002.0053.01
- Object Name
- Briefcase
- Measurements
- overall: 35 cm x 44 cm x 10 cm; 13 3/4 in x 17 5/16 in x 3 15/16 in
- used
- United States: New York, Manhattan, World Trade Center
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, 9/11
- September 11
- National Museum of American History
- associated subject
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks
- related event
- Attack on the World Trade Center
- September 11th Attacks
- Record ID
- nmah_1000867
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-3c93-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
