#TODD BEAMER 911 PHONE CALL MOVIE#

KING: Now, Brennan, you played Todd Beamer, who got maybe the best know. I was very pleased with the performance that Ty put in and I was really impressed with the tenacity that David Gerber and all of the folks at A&E. KING: Was it weird to watch? HOGLAN: Very weird. He was also going to the wedding of one of his good friends, Joe Salama (ph) who was a (INAUDIBLE) brother and a Muslim. KING: He was going home? HOGLAN: Well he was. He had his own firm out in San Francisco and another office in New York, the Bingham Group. KING: What did Mark do for a living? HOGLAN: Mark was a PR man. I think he captured the essence of Mark Bingham. KING: How well did he do, Alice? HOGLAN: Oh, I think Ty did a good job. This was a man who became a hero in an instant and before that was a normal citizen. KING: What was it like, Ty, to play Alice's son? TY OLSSON, PLAYS PASSENGER MARK BINGHAM IN A&E MOVIE: Well, you know, playing a real life person who wasn't famous or worldly known until that day was tricky because there's no information on him, unlike a lot of historic figures that you might be able to research or look up. Actually, the people in the people in the department started standing around me and crowding around me because they knew I was on the phone with someone and his plane had just been hijacked. KING: I mean did you grab another phone and call somebody else? JEFFERSON: No. KING: Did you call - did you tell anyone else you were on the phone with him? JEFFERSON: Well. We had - Verizon had public telephones in the seatback of the airplanes and he pressed zero and came into the call center in Oakbrook, Illinois. KING: Who called you? JEFFERSON: Todd Beamer. I felt like I was actually on the plane with them.

KING: And, Lisa, what was it like for you to be the phone supervisor who spoke and prayed with them? LISA JEFFERSON, VERIZON AIR PHONE OPERATOR: It was an experience that I'll never forget. KING: But you miss them a lot? PETERSON: Absolutely. KING: Hamilton doesn't time heal at all? HAMILTON PETERSON, FATHER AND STEPMOTHER KILLED ON FLIGHT 93: It certainly does, Larry, and there's much for us to be proud regarding Flight 93 and everyone else who suffered that tragic day. KING: What's it like for you Esther? ESTHER HEYMANN, STEPDAUGHTER ELIZABETH WANINO KILLED ON FLIGHT 93: It's extremely intense still and I imagine it will be for my lifetime. Since I lost Mark, I'm not the same person I was and, no, the short answer is no. I live - I live September 11th and the issues involved with September 11th. Alice, is memory fading? ALICE HOGLAN, SON MARK BINGHAM KILLED ON UNITED FLIGHT 93: Well, not for me, Larry.

#TODD BEAMER 911 PHONE CALL MOVIE#

He plays Alice Hoglan's son Mark Bingham in the A&E network movie Flight 93 and, Brennan Elliott who plays Todd Beamer on A&E's Flight 93. Information about the Flight 93 Memorial is on the Internet, Ty Olsson is with us here in Los Angeles. He's the president of Families of Flight 93. In Washington is Hamilton Peterson, his father and stepmother, Donald and Jean Peterson, died aboard Flight 93. Elizabeth borrowed a cell phone and called Esther before the plane crashed. In Tampa, Florida is Esther Heymann, her stepdaughter Elizabeth Wanino died aboard that flight. Also here is Lisa Jefferson, the Verizon phone supervisor who spoke and prayed with Todd Beamer before he and other Flight 93 passengers stormed the cockpit. Mark was one of the passengers who fought back against the terrorists. In Los Angeles, Alice Hoglan, she lost her son Mark Bingham aboard Flight 93. And, with the help of clips from the A&E movie Flight 93, we will tell their stories. Tonight, some of their family members join us. One of those flights failed thanks mostly to the heroic passengers onboard. Terrorists hijacked four planes with plans to crash them into strategic targets in New York and Washington. (END VIDEO CLIP) KING: Hello and welcome, marked an unprecedented attack on the United States. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: United 93, United 93 if you hear the center ident. Inside Flight 93 is next on LARRY KING LIVE. Tonight, relive their terror and their courage with loved ones who talked to them and strangers who prayed with them. LARRY KING, CNN HOST: Tonight, the passengers who fought back on United Flight 93 were parents and spouses, sons and daughters and on 9/11 they were heroes. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

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