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As the world tried to come to grips with the loss of so
many, thousands of children went from having hope to hearing
the unimaginable. Filmmaker James Ronald Whitney captured
one family on camera for the 10 days following the attacks.
Telling Nicholas can be seen Sunday, May 19 at
10 p.m. on HBO
The Oprah Show
May 10, 2002 (Partial transcript)
OPRAH:
We know that thousands of children in New York went
from having hope to hearing the unimaginable. Filmmaker
James
Ronald Whitney captured on camera what one family
went through in the ten days following the attacks.
Here's
some of that...
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OPRAH (voice over):
On September 11th filmmaker James Ronald Whitney
began a desperate search for news of missing friends.
The next
day he was struck by this poster...
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OPRAH:
James said he felt a connection between Michelle
and Nicholas. A connection so deep he felt compelled
to visit Michelle's
family.
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OPRAH:
James ended up spending the next ten days with them
as they continued to cling to hope that Michelle
would be
found.
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OPRAH:
What emerged was the story of a mother who loved
her son and a family trying to find a way to cope
with the emotional
devastation.
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OPRAH:
After ten days with all hope gone Nicholas's father
had to tell him the unthinkable, that his mother
was never
coming home.
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OPRAH:
Like Nicholas thousands of children heard that heartbreaking
news. "Telling Nicholas" can be
seen this Sunday, May 19th at 10 pm on HBO.
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