"Top of the World": Remembering the Restaurant Workers Killed Atop World Trade Center in 9/11 Attack

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Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt A new documentary titled Top of the World tells the story of Windows on the World, the legendary restaurant atop the World Trade Center, through the eyes of its former employees. Windows on the World served guests for 25 years, until the morning of September 11, 2001, when attacks on the World Trade Center destroyed the North Tower in which the restaurant was located. Seventy-nine workers and 91 diners were killed. We're joined by Top of the World's co-directors, Julie Cohen and Betsy West, and by Sekou Siby, a former line cook at Windows on the World. Siby, who immigrated to the United States from the Ivory Coast in 1996, was originally scheduled to work on the morning of September 11, but a co-worker asked him to switch shifts. "He didn't make it," says Siby, who became an organizer and longtime leader at the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC), an advocacy group founded by Windows on the World workers to support each o

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