Case File Eight: Barbara Olson Passenger on American 77 Captured at Dulles Airport on 9/11

Case File: Eight

UPDATE: 17/07/2025 - I do not believe this to be Barbara Olson captured in this CCTV. After continued analysis, I Barbara Olson did not have a fringe cut in her hair style, like the lady in the CCTV. Barbara Olson did have a similar fringe hair cut, like we see in the photograph below:

However, Barbara grew her fringe long, as can be observed during her C-Span interview, two days before 9/11. See screen-shot below:

As much as the lady’s clothes are similar in the CCTV to Barbara’s, I do not believe the lady in the CCTV is Barbara Olson. I have remained open to the suggestion it was from a follower, who first suggested it to me, however I have done more detailed analysis to reach this opinion.

I have deliberately left this post up, with this introductory notice of my updated position on the matter. This is to show that “truth-seekers”, should always be open to reevaluating evidence, and if necessary a change of opinion is required, then I would rather express any changes I make publicly on a previous opinion once held.

The original article posting below:

Case File Eight: Barbara Olson Passenger on American 77 Captured at Dulles Airport on 9/11

As many people may know who follow my research, I have been doing a lot of in depth research into the “alleged” passengers who were assigned to the doomed four aircrafts on 9/11. I felt this area of 9/11 planes studies needed attention and focus. I decided to do a series of “Case Files” articles to document all the available visual evidence that I have been able to ascertain over the last few years from Dulles Airport on 9/11.

Much of the evidence I have presented in this series of eight Case Files is new and unreleased evidence, which I have obtained, and now shared exclusively with my valued Substack subscribers and followers.

To conclude in this final case file, I am sharing CCTV footage which could identify Barbara Olson at Dulles Airport on 9/11.

Exhibit 1: Barbara Olson, Passenger on Flight 77

Source: https://pentagonmemorial.org/biographies/barbara-k-olson/

Barbara Olson Obituary

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 — Barbara K. Olson, who was killed on Tuesday on the commercial jetliner that was hijacked and flown into the Pentagon, was well known to television viewers across the nation as a combative and confident political commentator representing the conservative Republican point of view.

Mrs. Olson, 45, was also half of a highly influential couple on Washington's social-political scene; her husband, Theodore B. Olson, an appellate lawyer, successfully argued the Florida election case for George W. Bush before the Supreme Court. President Bush named Mr. Olson the nation's solicitor general, the official who formulates the administration's strategy before the nation's courts.

Mr. Olson was in his Justice Department office on Tuesday morning when he received two calls from Mrs. Olson, who was using her cell phone aboard American Airlines Flight 77 to tell him the plane had been hijacked. Her description of what was occurring in her last moments provided what officials said was valuable information about the incident. She reported that the flight crew had been herded to the back of the plane with the passengers, and she asked her husband what she should tell the pilot who was apparently beside her while the hijackers were in control of the cockpit.

Mrs. Olson's friends and her husband said her efforts to "do something" on the doomed plane were exquisitely in character. " She never sat back," her husband said in an interview.

The Olsons, who were married four years ago, complemented each other in style. Mrs. Olson was the more outspoken of the two in her televised commentaries, while Mr. Olson presented a more deliberative face in his role as the reigning constitutional litigator for the Republican establishment.

Although Mrs. Olson was generally a take-no-prisoners advocate, Mr. Olson recalled on Tuesday that she recently told him she had come to believe that the national political debate had become too acrimonious. He recalled that she said that during one television appearance, she believed those who called in comments to her and her liberal counterpart, Bill Press, were far too harsh.

Barbara Kay Bracher Olson was born on Dec. 27, 1955, in Houston, and trained to be a teacher at the University of St. Thomas in her hometown. But, she had told friends, she wanted to save enough money to go to law school and decided a quicker way to do so than teaching was to become a part of the film industry.

With no experience in the field but an abundance of self-confidence, she moved to Hollywood and began telephoning production companies connected to well-known actors, offering herself as an all-around helper. Stacy Keach finally offered her a job, Mr. Olson recalled this week, and when she saved enough money to go to law school, she moved to New York to attend the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University.

Mrs. Olson turned down jobs in New York after law school because she yearned to live in Washington. As chief counsel for the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee's Republican majority from 1995 to 1996, Mrs. Olson led the investigation into President Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton's role in firing longtime employees of the White House travel office. She became a caustic and relentless critic of the Clintons.

Mrs. Olson wrote "Hell to Pay" (Regnery, 1999), a highly critical book about Mrs. Clinton, and recently finished a sequel, "Final Days," about the Clintons' last weeks in the White House. Mr. Olson said it would be published by Regnery.

Mrs. Olson is survived by her brother, David Bracher, and her sister, Antoinette Lawrence, both of Houston, as well as her husband.

Source: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/barbara-olson-obituary?pid=91819

Barbara Olson at Dulles Airport on 9/11?

Below, CCTV footage shows, (lady in red) Barbara Olson possibly identified in the security screening area at Dulles Airport on 9/11.

Slow motion version of the CCTV for closer inspection below:

Below, I show several photos of Barbara Olson, who often wore her hair in a bun and tied back, and also wore seemed to be dressing in red and black clothing around this particular time in 2001. See below:

Barbara Olson appeared on C-Span on the 9th September 2001, see video below

Did the CCTV footage capture Barbara Olson at Dulles on 9/11?

Based on my analysis, I believe there is a strong possibility that the CCTV captured Barbara Olson at Dulles Airport on 9/11. The red jacket and black jumper she wore on C-Span interview, seem very similar to what we observe in the CCTV footage, and theme of clothing Barbara was wearing around September 2001.

This concludes my series of Case File articles of the visual evidence capturing passengers at Dulles Airport on 9/11. Let me be clear, I am merely presenting evidence I have obtained, nothing else at this point in time. I am not saying they all boarded the plane, or didn’t board the plane, it is just the visual evidence record I have managed to document through my investigation and research.

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Mark Conlon AKA 9/11 Planes Research