Roll of Honor
Nathaniel Webb
Incident
Police Officer Nathaniel Webb was killed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks while attempting to rescue the victims trapped in the World Trade Center.
Officer Webb had served with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department for over 35 years.
September 11, 2001
Police Officer Nathaniel Webb was killed at the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001. He was 56 years old.
He is one of 72 officers honored here, and one of 37 at Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department.
Seventy-two law enforcement officers from eight local, state, and federal agencies were killed at the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, alongside 343 members of the New York City Fire Department and more than 2,800 civilians. A fourth aircraft went down in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where a law enforcement officer aboard was among the dead.
Officers went into the towers while everyone else was coming out. More than 25,000 people reached safety because they did.
Survivors
His daughters Camille and Valerie, and his mother.
Biography
A Port Authority police officer for twenty-eight years, assigned to the Holland Tunnel. He was one of three officers from that command killed that morning, and was last seen at roll call.
There was an apple tree in his grandfather's garden and the children were forbidden to touch it. He and his cousins picked the apples anyway, still green. When the old man found them gone he demanded to know who had disobeyed him, and they all lied - except that when he was cornered Nathaniel would go teary-eyed and tell the truth. His cousin Delores remembered it: then we all got punished, but he never did.
From that almost biblical beginning he stayed on the side of authority for the rest of his life. She said he was always trying to keep everyone else on the straight and narrow.
His friends and colleagues called him righteous and generous. He looked after his housebound mother, calling in several times a week to sit with her. When a few of them went out for a drink or a meal after a shift he would quietly pick up the bill.
An officer who worked with him at the Holland Tunnel was once stranded in Brooklyn with a flat tyre. He drove over from Jersey City to sit with her until the tow truck came. She said: and the thing was, I didn't even have to ask.
He held the Meritorious Active Duty Award and a Police Group Citation.
At the dedication of the Tribute in Light on the eleventh of March 2002, his daughter Valerie was chosen to switch on the two banks of forty-four searchlights.
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Tributes
You went in while everyone else was coming out.
Police Officer Webb gave the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department 35 years.
Thank you for your service to the Jersey City community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Police Officer Webb.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Police Officer Nathaniel Webb is one of 1 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,787 officers honored here.
In NJ, 264 of 646 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 40.9% of this state's fallen. That is 40.9 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, 41 of 60 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 68.3% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Felonious compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Nathaniel Webb's cause is highlighted.
How Nathaniel Webb Compares
When Felonious Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Felonious deaths across the full memorial record. Nathaniel Webb is highlighted in Sep.
Weapons Used Against Officers
Most common weapons in felonious officer deaths. Nathaniel Webb was killed by aircraft; passenger jet.
Incident Location
Where the Name Is Cut
National September 11 Memorial · Panel 28
Also Remembered
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