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Official ‘White House Guided Tour’ ticket and ticket stub, both dated for a tour on September 11, 2001, at 8:15 AM, approximately 16 minutes after American Airlines Flight 11 departed Boston’s Logan Airport en route to the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, where it would crash at 8:46 AM, and set into motion the deadliest terrorist attack in history. The complete ticket, 3 x 7, and the ticket stub, 3 x 5.25, are both numbered “410,” issued to “Ralph Duquette,” and bear stamped signatures of President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush. Both also bear stamped courtesy signatures of Olympia Snowe, then a senator from Maine. The reverse of the tickets contain overhead maps of the White House and the surrounding area. In overall very good to fine condition, with heavy creasing to the used ticket.
The White House, as many believe, was an intended target of the 9/11 conspirators. This reality was avoided when the heroic passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 sacrificed their lives to thwart the attack, fighting back against their hijackers and forcing the plane to crash into a field roughly 130 miles northwest of the capital. On the same morning, President Bush was visiting the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, some 900 miles away from Washington, D.C. He returned to the White House at approximately 8:30 PM and addressed the nation from the Oval Office, reaffirming American resilience, that those responsible would be found, and ushering in what became known as the War on Terror. A poignant reminder from one of America’s darkest days.
