Summary

JOHN OGANOWSKI WAS AT THE HELM OF AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 11, ONE OF THE HIJACKED SEPTEMBER 11TH PLANES. NOW THERE'S AN EFFORT IN HIS HOMETOWN OF DRACUT, MASSACHUSETTS, TO HONOR HIS MEMORY.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 230701
Story Slug Pilot - memorial
Location Dracut, Massachusetts
Format PKG
Date 5/31/2002
Archive Time 24:28
TRT 1:38
Supers Dracut, Massachusetts Jim Ogonowski, John's Brother Rep Marty Meehan, (D) Massachusetts Chea Kim, Cambodian-American Farmer Peg Ogonowski, John's Wife Sen Ted Kennedy, (D) Massachusetts
Video Description LS OF LARGE FARM AREA, STILL OF PILOT, MORE SHOTS OF THE FARM LAND, SOTS, PEOPLE GATHERED AT THE CEREMONY, CAMBODIAN FARMER WORKING IN FARM, SOTS, MORE SHOTS OF THE CEREMONY, SOTS, SOTS WITH TED KENNEDY.
Description JOHN OGANOWSKI WAS AT THE HELM OF AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 11, ONE OF THE HIJACKED SEPTEMBER 11TH PLANES. NOW THERE'S AN EFFORT IN HIS HOMETOWN OF DRACUT, MASSACHUSETTS, TO HONOR HIS MEMORY.
Script ONE OF THE PILOTS OF A HIJACKED PLANE ON SEPTEMBER 11TH IS GETTING A SPECIAL MEMORIAL IN MASSACHUSETTS. JOHN OGONOWSKI WAS AN AVID FARMER AS WELL AS AN AIRLINE PILOT. AND TODAY A FARMLAND MEMORIAL HAS BEEN SET UP IN HIS NAME. CAROL MACKENZIE JOINS US FROM DRACUT WITH THE STORY. (TAKE PKG) JOHN OGONOWSKI DREAM WAS THAT THIS WOULD ALWAYS BE WHAT IT IS TODAY FARM LAND, BEFORE OGONOWSKI HAD BEEN KILLED ON 9/11 HE HAD BEEN NEGOTIATING WITH A DEVELOPER TO BUY THIS 33 ACRE PLOT TO PRESERVE IT, A PLOT HIS FAMILY HAD FARMED FOR GENERATIONS BUT NEVER OWNED, NOW THAT HE IS GONE OTHER'S ARE TAKING UP HIS FIGHT. (SOT-OGONOWSKI, "I look out onto these fields I still see John walking these fields in his blue jeans and denim his hair amiss in the breeze his hands coated with grease, we stand in John's fields of dreams..") OGONOWSKI'S FAMILY AND FRIENDS GATHERED AT HIS FARM TO HEAR SENATOR KENNEDY AND CONGRESSMAN MEEHAN ANNOUNCE THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL GIVE THE LAND TRUST MONEY TO HELP BUY THAT LAND WHICH WILL COST ABOUT 700 60 THOUSAND DOLLARS (SOT-MEEHAN, "Not only will the land be preserved but it would make it a memorial a farm land memorial to john ogonowski,") THE LAND HAS A PROGRAM THAT TEACHES CAMBODIA IMMIGRANTS HOW TO FARM SOMETHING THAT WAS NEAR AND DEAR TO OGONOWSKI'S. HE DONATED PART OF HIS OWN FARM TO THE PROGRAM. (SOT-KIM, "He only asked the question what you need.") OGONOWSKI CARED ABOUT THE NEEDS OF HIS COMMUNITY AND HIS FAMILY AND HIS WIFE THINKS THE LAND PRESERVATION IS THE PERFECT WAY TO HONOR HIM. (SOT-PEG,"We do share John's dreams and all the work that he did...") (SOT-KENNEDY, "It's nice that we take a few moments away with all the things that happen in the work, to celebrate a life well lived and tradition, to remind people what's important in life.") RECAP
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