Armed with privileged information from the ’93 attack
on the World Trade Center — realizing both towers were
doomed — Jeff pulled out of an emergency convoy just short
of the WTC as he and reporter Rob Morrison approached the burning
towers. Taking charge at the scene, Jeff ordered live-truck
engineer Eddie Alonzo to stay 500 feet away and told all responding
crews to back-off—dangerously becoming NBC’s sole
cameraman broadcasting live from Ground Zero. He permitted only
the live-shot reporter to join him at his camera position—and
during their live broadcast, the South Tower collapsed.
They ran for their lives; Jeff rescued Eddie and stayed to
videotape the panic and the North Tower collapse. September’s
Camera is the story of that fateful day, and of a career lived
on the edge of danger—as Jeff’s lens captured conflict,
urban riots, blackouts, serial killers, plane crashes and human
frailty in all its forms.