Coke or Pepsi?

Here’s a whimsical little map I’ve made up for you…

I call it Coke or Pepsi?, though that’s not particularly what it’s about. The interesting thing to me is that the Chairman of the 9/11 Commission- Thomas H. Kean- sits on the BOD of a Fortune 500 company (Franklin Resources) which owns the company (Fiduciary Trust) which had offices where Flight 175 hit the South tower of the WTC. In 2002, USA Today reported that

Kean has long served as director of Fiduciary Trust Co.

source. As the article also mentions, he is/was also a director of Aramark, which

ran the food court on top of 2 World Trade Center as well as concessions and tours of the observation deck

So… Kean is/was on the BOD of, by my count, 6 Fortune 500 companies, at least two of which lost quite a number of emloyees on 9/11. Another one is an oil company. Also, he was on the BOD of the subsidiary company WHERE the second plane impacted. He was additionally on the BOD of Bell Atlantic, which merged with GTE in 2000 to form another Fortune 500 company- Verizon. I guess you could say he might have had a small financial interest in the events of 9/11, what with one thing and another…

Also on the BOD of Franklin was the CEO of Fiduciary, Anne Tatlock, who had a famous near miss- being out of the office that day in order to attend Warren Buffett’s celebrity charity event, arriving at Offutt AFB just in time to witness the second plane hit the South tower. Of course, Offutt is where Dubya would land later in the day; the same location where Brent Scowcroft was en route to observe the nuclear wargame Global Guardian… as the Pentagon was being hit, etc. But you knew all that, right?