ABSTRACT
After Marks returned home to Long Island, the interview he had done with the man who saw the cockpit float down from the sky, who found the bodies of the flight crew and some passengers, became particularly troubling. “It haunted me,” the reporter recalled. “I was very agitated and annoyed. The author didn't trace it to this exactly. He think maybe it was that he still wanted to be involved in the story.” But the scene of the story had shifted, and most new information was coming out of Washington. Besides, Marks admitted, he was not really that interested in the investigation, which focused on terrorism. That made it a story for investigative reporters, and Marks’ specialty is human interest. So Marks consulted with a bereavement counselor who was working with some of the families, and was reassured.
