Of the popular photos documenting the moment of the September 11 attack were of a man named Stephen Cooper, this image appeared on magazine covers and was published by newspapers and websites and viewed by people around the world.
Cooper, who appears in a black shirt with an envelope in his hand, died of corona virus last March in Florida at the age of 78, according to his family, according to American media.
His wife, Janet Rushes, said that Cooper's image, which documented a moment of panic during the attack on the Twin Towers, was then delivering diplomatic papers and documents in Manhattan when a policeman screamed from afar asking them to escape from the scene.
Despite the spread of the image in all the visual and print media, Cooper did not know that he had been photographed running away from the debris and smoke that appears in the background of the image, and how close he was to him until two weeks after the accident.
Rush noted that this incident was very impressive in his life, as he kept the image in his wallet and showed it to everyone he met.
The famous photo was taken by Associated Press photographer Susan Plunkett, who documented the event and interviewed a number of those who filmed it after the accident, but did not meet Cooper, according to what she told "CNN."
Cooper is one of the victims who survived the 9/11 attacks, but was killed by the emerging Corona virus, one of 132,000 people who died in the United States with this virus, which has infected nearly 3 million people so far in America, and nearly 11.5 million people worldwide.