10 Facts About Bob Beckwith

Bob Beckwith later met several times with President Bush, spoke extensively in public, and acted as a fundraiser for charities.

Bob Beckwith handed Bush a megaphone with which to address the crowd of responders and workers and was told to climb down by the Secret Service and Karl Rove, but Bush insisted that Bob Beckwith stay with him.

An image of Bush with Bob Beckwith was featured the next day on the front page of the New York Daily News.

Bob Beckwith was always bashful about his fame, though an enlarged version of the Time magazine cover that made him famous hung in his den.

Bob Beckwith had already donated the clothes and helmet that he wore that day to the memorial before his death.

Bob Beckwith visited 11 times with President Bush, traveled and spoke extensively, and dedicated much of his activity to fundraising for the New York Firefighters Burn Center Foundation.

On February 25,2002, in a White House ceremony together with Governor George Pataki of New York state, Bob Beckwith presented to Bush the bullhorn the president had used to address workers at the World Trade Center site just days after the attacks.

Bob Beckwith lived for more than 50 years with his wife Barbara in the same house in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York.

Bob Beckwith died from cancer in Rockville Centre, New York, on February 4,2024, at the age of 91.

Bob Beckwith had been in hospice care after receiving cancer treatments, according to Beckwith's grandson.