Would you be surprised to learn that this commercial aired at 8:14am the morning of 9/11, showing a paper airplane flying around a city and past skyscrapers? When it lands, it's opened up to reveal the words "I'm on my way". What is this an ad for and why does it matter? A 🧵
This ad, put out by Keybank, aired at 8:14am on the morning of 9/11. 8:14am is also the exact moment the first plane, American Airlines 11, was hijacked AND the exact moment the second plane, United Airlines 175 took off. Below are a few shots, including "I'm on my way."
This commercial can be found on the internet archive here. Scroll down to the CNN table and you can clearly see it labeled as being aired at 8:14AM
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On the morning of 9/11, Henry L Meyer III was the president and CEO of KeyCorp. Retiring in 2011, he saw the bank through the great recession, when it received a $2.5b bailout. He was also a member of the board of the Federal Reserve bank of Cleveland at the time.
After retiring from KeyCorp in '11, Meyer went on to be the non-executive Chairman for United Holdings (Airlines) and was the "highest independent director of United". He had been trading United stock since 04, pulling in millions. Meyer was replaced at KeyCorp by Beth Mooney.
Beth Mooney, along with being the new Key CEO, was also a chair for the Greater Cleveland Partnership, where Meyer was the Chairman of the Board of Directors. The GCP has their work funded by the Cleveland Foundation.
The president and CEO of The Cleveland Foundation is Ronn Richard. He was also managing director and COO of In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm run by the CIA and "the idea" of then CIA director George Tenet (acting director on 9/11). In 2009, Richard was put on the board of the GCP
Predictive programming? Warning? They aired this commercial at the exact moment 9/11 officially "started", while being run by a guy that would later be on the board of United Airlines and work closely with a high ranking spook. I think there is something to it.
Huge thanks to @lakefieldmoscow with putting together the research for this thread. We're going to keep looking into it and see if this commercial was ever aired before 9/11 and maybe who produced it, etc.
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