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William Rodriguez on 911

 
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some waygug-in



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:19 am    Post subject: William Rodriguez on 911 Reply with quote

It's long and the video is out of sync with the sound, but it's definitely worth listening to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEYRtIYq8KQ
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's my bedtime, so I'm not going to watch it now. But isn't he the wanna-be-actor-cum-janitor who first said:

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RODRIGUEZ: I was in the basement, which is the support floor for the maintenance company, and we hear like a big rumble. Not like an impact, like a rumble, like moving furniture in a massive way. And all of sudden we hear another rumble, and a guy comes running, running into our office, and all of skin was off his body. All of the skin.


http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/11/bn.24.html
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some waygug-in



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't know about the actor part, but yes, that's the guy.

He worked at the WTC for many years.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 9:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

some waygug-in wrote:
I don't know about the actor part, but yes, that's the guy.

He worked at the WTC for many years.


Last one to make it out of the basements ... alive.
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huffdaddy



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

some waygug-in wrote:
I don't know about the actor part, but yes, that's the guy.


Sorry, I meant magician.

http://www.911truth.org/article_for_printing.php?story=20060320164312944
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As a boy shining shoes in Puerto Rico, William dreamed of being wrapped in a straitjacket and suspended upside down from a flaming rope. �That was going to be my big trick. It was my goal to become a magician, the greatest illusionist in the Caribbean basin.�

Later, Rodriguez met James Randi, a.k.a. the Amazing Randi, the magician best known as a debunker of supernatural claims, offering the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge to anyone able to demonstrate verifiable evidence of psychic powers.

�Randi was my mentor,� said William. �I admired him for his tricks but also because he never said they were anything but tricks. He separated the truth from the phony.�

William moved to New York, but beyond some gigs at Mostly Magic, his career did not take off. He started working for a cleaning company in the World Trade Center. He�d stay there twenty years.


I tried to watch it, but I just have a hard time believing people who can't sync the video with the audio. Maybe that's why Dylan Avery is so convincing - he knows how to edit video.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

huffdaddy wrote:
Maybe that's why Dylan Avery is so convincing - he knows how to edit video.


Yah. So well in fact he "edited" the celebrating Israeli Mossad agents right out of the picture Confused

Outta sight ...
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some waygug-in



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

huffdaddy wrote:
some waygug-in wrote:
I don't know about the actor part, but yes, that's the guy.


Sorry, I meant magician.

http://www.911truth.org/article_for_printing.php?story=20060320164312944
Quote:
As a boy shining shoes in Puerto Rico, William dreamed of being wrapped in a straitjacket and suspended upside down from a flaming rope. �That was going to be my big trick. It was my goal to become a magician, the greatest illusionist in the Caribbean basin.�

Later, Rodriguez met James Randi, a.k.a. the Amazing Randi, the magician best known as a debunker of supernatural claims, offering the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge to anyone able to demonstrate verifiable evidence of psychic powers.

�Randi was my mentor,� said William. �I admired him for his tricks but also because he never said they were anything but tricks. He separated the truth from the phony.�

William moved to New York, but beyond some gigs at Mostly Magic, his career did not take off. He started working for a cleaning company in the World Trade Center. He�d stay there twenty years.


I tried to watch it, but I just have a hard time believing people who can't sync the video with the audio. Maybe that's why Dylan Avery is so convincing - he knows how to edit video.



It is hard to watch, better off just listening to the audio. It is worth hearing though. He does have quite a story to tell.

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