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• World Trade Center in New York, a seven-building complex in Lower Manhattan that was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks
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Kevin Michael Cosgrove (January 6, 1955 – September 11, 2001) was an American business executive in the insurance industry who was a victim of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Cosgrove is notable because of the recording of the 9-1-1 call he made during his final moments which ended with him crying out from inside the South Tower as it collapsed. The recording was used during the prosecution of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only criminal trials to result from the attacks. His final cry as the South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed made international headlines.^[1][2]

Personal life[link]

Cosgrove and his family lived in West Islip, New York.^[3][4]

September 11 attacks[link]

Cosgrove was a Vice President of Claims for Aon Corporation. According to the 9-1-1 recording played during the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, Cosgrove was located in the northwest corner of the 105th floor in Two World Trade Center (the South Tower), overlooking the World Financial Center.^[5]

Cosgrove told 9-1-1 dispatchers he was calling from John Ostaru's office and had two other individuals with him. One he mentions by the name, Doug Cherry. A voice other than Cosgrove's is also heard on his phone, who is presumed to be Cherry. Cosgrove says to the operator on the phone, "My wife thinks I'm all right, I called and said I was leaving the building and that I was fine, and then bang!" while 2 World Trade Center was burning. Then, a 9-1-1 operator called him "Hello? He answered Hello. We're looking in ... we're overlooking the Financial Center. Three of us. Two broken windows. Oh God. Oh... Cosgrove's words ended as the South Tower collapsed.^[5]

Aftermath and legacy[link]

Cosgrove’s name is located on Panel S-60 of the National September 11 Memorial’s South Pool.

Cosgrove's remains were found in the rubble. He was buried on September 22, 2001 at St. Patrick Catholic Cemetery in Huntington, New York.^[6] At his death he left a wife, Wendy Cosgrove, who is a schoolteacher, and three children.^[4][7]

Wendy Cosgrove testified during the punishment phase of Moussaoui's trial, in which prosecutors sought the death penalty for Moussaoui. Cosgrove testified about her husband's last moments, when he was trapped on the South Tower's 105th floor, and jurors heard an audio tape of Kevin Cosgrove's 9-1-1 phone call in which he told a dispatcher, "I’m not ready to die."^[4][8] Wendy Cosgrove also testified that their oldest son, who was 12 on the day of the attacks, suffered a decline in his academic performance, and had developed anger and self-destructive habits, as well as trouble with the law, while their middle child, who was 9 during the attacks, exhibited self-mutilation, for which she has undergone therapy.^[4]

At the National 9/11 Memorial, Cosgrove is memorialized at the South Pool, on Panel S-60.^[3]

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External links[link]

• Media related to Kevin Cosgrove at Wikimedia Commons