# Terry Horowitz oral history interview conducted by Laurel Gumpert, June 15, 2020

On the morning of 9/11, Terry, the regional director for fifty-eight Burger Kings in New York, was in Miami at a meeting with the company's CEO. Since the airports were closed, Terry drove back to New York. When he arrived, he was surprised to see the military on the streets with their weapons. He went to one of his restaurants, which was located across the street from the WTC. He was glad to hear that everyone made it out safely, but it had been taken over by the FBI to use as a morgue. Terry checked on some of the other functioning locations and requested that they feed the responders for free during their time working at Ground Zero. For the next six or seven months, Terry worked six days a week at one of the Burger King locations helping to support the customers and oversee the employees. It was very busy and he tried to keep his employees motivated by giving them free transportation to work. Going into work each day, Terry remembers the awful smell from the WTC and the debris everywhere. Even though there was dust in the air, no one was concerned about the air quality because they were told it was safe by the government. He was never told to wear a mask or to use protective equipment and he believes his current neurological disorder is connected to 9/11. He applied to the 9/11 health program and was informed that his illness is not recognized by the government as being related to 9/11. Before that time, Terry was in good health and his family had no history of…

- Kind: Interview
- Year: 2020
- Runtime: 53 min
- By: Horowitz, Terry
- Genres: History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2015048_443/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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