Reminiscences of Timothy Z. Zirkel : oral history, 2001-2003.

Biographical Note

Special Counsel to the Special Commissioner of Investigations, New York City School District.

Scope and Contents

Background: resident of Hicksville, NY; education: B.A. Hofstra University, J.D. Hofstra Law School 1994; career: Assistant District Attorney for Manhattan, Investigations Division in Rackets Bureau, Special Counsel to the Special Commissioner of Investigations for New York City Schools; 9/11: at workplace near World Trade Center, television news coverage, witnessing fires and sound of collapse, evacuation halted by fall of towers, building refuge for outsiders; post-9/11: camaraderie among volunteers, interaction with politicians; fading of memory, desire to protect newborn daughter, desire to reconnect with woman rescued on 9/11, importance of balancing security needs with Bill of Rights, discussion of George W. Bush Administration policy on terrorism detainees, desire to run for local government office in 2005.

Subjects

• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
• Thompson, Ed, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Zirkel, Timothy Z., 1968---Interviews.

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