Flight 93

Join the library and Whitehall Borough Historical Society for an informative talk about the national tragedy that happened on Pennsylvania soil. 

On 9/11, the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 earned their rightful place among the pantheon of American heroes. Local writer Tom McMillan provides a riveting narrative based on interviews, oral histories, transcripts, recordings, personal tours of the crash site, and voluminous trial evidence made public only in recent years. 

Utilizing research tools that were not available in the years immediately after the crash, Mr. McMillan offers the most complete account of what actually took place aboard United 93 – from its delayed takeoff at Newark International Airport to the moment it plunged upside-down at 563 miles per hour into an open field in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

Bio: Tom McMillan has spent a lifetime in media and communications: as a newspaper sports writer, radio talk-show host, and Vice President of Communications for the Pittsburgh Penguins. In his spare time, he also serves on the board of directors of Pittsburgh’s Heinz History Center, on the marketing committee of the Gettysburg Foundation, as a tour guide for the Civil War Room at Carnegie Library, as an adjunct professor of media and marketing at Point Park University and a volunteer at the Flight 93 National Memorial, where he helps to orient visitors to the crash site. He lives in Wexford, Pennsylvania.