Duane Jackson

.Heroic Times Square T-shirt vendor Lance Orton just 'an average guy'
BY Barry Paddock
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Monday, May 3rd 2010, 10:37 PM

Schwartz for NewsDuane Jackson and proud daughter Tiffany in Times Square Monday just days after Vietnam vet and handbag seller helped alert cops to car bomb. Jackson also got a call from President Obama. Take our PollTimes Square scare
Do you believe New York City is the No. 1 terrorist target in the U.S.?

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Saving the day is all in thefamily for Lance Orton, the T-shirt vendor credited with first telling cops about the bomb-packed SUV parked in the heart of Times Square.

His sister is a disaster response expert: Dr. Gina Orton 54, of Virginia, works as a psychiatrist with the Justice Department, counseling law enforcement officers traumatized by the unthinkable.

"My brother could have been killed," Gina Orton said, "and socould have thousands of people. ... It's a horrifying thought."

She's not surprised her brother acted the way he did. After all, he did such a good job looking out for her when they were kids, why shouldn't he now be looking out for all New York?

"He defended me from a lot of dangers and problems," she said. "He was a shield to me, a protector."

Growing up in Wakefield, the Bronx, he walked her home from school every day to protect her from bullies.

"He's always looking out for other people," she said.

Her brother


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