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title: Jose the tourist guy
date: "2001-11-20T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1562
description: I'm looking into the identity of the 'Tourist Guy' meme, specifically a Wired piece exploring whether a man named Jose is the person photoshopped into the viral World Trade Center image.
keywords: [tourist guy, internet meme, 9/11, urban legend, wired, hoax]
---

Is [Jose](http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,48225,00.html) the tourist guy?