Her life was about doing right by others. And she dedicated her time for kids with special needs and wanted actually to be a pediatric physical therapist. My daughter hated bullies, and stood up for kids who were being bullied. But as her dad, what makes me most proud is the way she treated others. She was competitive, she loved to dance, and she just never stopped working at getting better. You were either laughing because of her, or sometimes yelling because of her. GUTTENBERG: She was the energy in the room. It was just four months before Jaime was killed.ĪLLEN: Tell us what you would want us to know about your daughter, Jaime. And in October of 2017, he died from that cancer.
And in 2013, he got the cancer that results from that. But they breathed in all that toxic poison. And amazingly, where he and 10 other doctors hid out did not collapse. He was in the World Trade Center when it collapsed. And on 911, my brother, who was the deputy medical director of the New York Fire Department at the time, was running into the World Trade Center before the second building even got hit. He's the person who runs into things that are going on when people like me are running away.
And he's what you would describe as an American hero. He has started a foundation in his daughter's memory called “ Orange Ribbons for Jaime” and has written a book about his ordeal and his mission called “ Find the Helpers.” On this edition of Take Note, Guttenberg talks with us about his daughter, his mission, his new book, and some of the many people who have helped him cope.ĪLLEN: Fred Guttenberg, welcome to Take Note.ĪLLEN: I didn't know until I read your book that when your daughter Jaime was murdered at Parkland, you were already grieving a very recent loss. Guttenberg is now an activist against gun violence. Fred Guttenberg’s 14-year-old daughter, Jaime, was killed on Valentine's Day in 2008 during a mass shooting at her high school in Parkland, Florida.
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