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==Death== [[File:JohnPOneillGraveStone.jpg|thumb|O'Neill's gravestone at Holy Cross Cemetery, [[Mays Landing, New Jersey]]]] O'Neill was killed on September 11, 2001, in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers.<ref name=CNN>{{cite news|title=FBI terrorist fighter's body found at WTC|date=September 22, 2001|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2001/US/09/21/vic.body.terror.expert|publisher=[[CNN]]|access-date=April 16, 2015|archive-date=January 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190128071559/http://edition.cnn.com/2001/US/09/21/vic.body.terror.expert/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Wesley Wong, an FBI agent who had known O'Neill for more than twenty years, and was in the command center with O'Neill that had been set up following the North Tower crash, last saw O'Neill walking toward a tunnel leading to the South Tower,<ref name=NewYorker/> likely to assist in that building's evacuation and gather surveillance footage from the security offices located there.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/john-oneills-fbi-jacket-and-passport-embody-his-enduring-fight-against-terrorism|title=John O'Neill's FBI Jacket and Passport Embody His Enduring Fight Against Terrorism|publisher=[[National September 11 Memorial & Museum]]|access-date=June 11, 2020|archive-date=June 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611172300/https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/john-oneills-fbi-jacket-and-passport-embody-his-enduring-fight-against-terrorism}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-sep-29-mn-51283-story.html|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|author=Meyer, Joshua|title=Anti-Terrorist Elite Bury Victim of Cause|date=September 29, 2001|access-date=June 11, 2020|archive-date=June 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611172909/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-sep-29-mn-51283-story.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Martin, Laura|url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/john-p-o-neill-a-looming-tower-true-story-fbi-agent-9-11-attacks-the-looming-tower-284970|title=John P. O'Neill: the true story of the FBI agent featured in 9/11 attacks drama The Looming Tower|newspaper=[[i (British newspaper)|i]]|date=May 12, 2019|access-date=June 11, 2020|archive-date=June 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611172445/https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/john-p-o-neill-a-looming-tower-true-story-fbi-agent-9-11-attacks-the-looming-tower-284970}}</ref> O'Neill's body was recovered from the debris of the [[List of tenants in 2 World Trade Center|South Tower]] on September 21.<ref name=CNN/> O'Neill is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in [[Mays Landing, New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The man who knew too much' Unsung American hero thwarted by Bush and Clinton|url = https://www.chestnuthilllocal.com/2011/02/17/the-man-who-knew-too-much-unsung-american-hero-thwarted-by-bush-and-clinton/|newspaper=Chestnut Hill Local|access-date=October 21, 2018|date=February 17, 2011}}</ref> At the [[National September 11 Memorial & Museum|National 9/11 Memorial]], O'Neill is memorialized at the North Pool, on Panel N-63.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://names.911memorial.org/#lang=en_US&page=person&id=4940|title=North Pool: Panel N-63 - John P. O'Neill|publisher=[[National September 11 Memorial & Museum]]|access-date=October 29, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727095710/http://names.911memorial.org/#lang=en_US&page=person&id=4940|archive-date=July 27, 2013}}</ref>
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