“…In sum, contrary to popular belief, anecdotal reports, and preliminary analyses claiming to provide evidence for an increase in suicide following September 11 (Friedman, Coben, D'Antonio, & McKay, 2002), our interrupted time‐series analyses of the effects of catastrophic terrorist events on suicide mortality in New York and Oklahoma are clear. Though these two catastrophic events had a profound effect on numerous aspects of social life, including heightened levels of psychological morbidity, they had no perceptible influence on suicide mortality at the local, state, or national level.…”