7/29/2023 0 Comments Dateline the man who wasnt there![]() ![]() By morning, a stream of well-wishers stopped by, including photographers Jim Nachtwey and Sandro Tucci. I was even able to walk-slowly-back to the car from the emergency room and through the hotel lobby to my room. Amazingly, the bullet had missed hitting any bones and the entry and exit holes were clean. I made it to the hotel car, then the hospital. Slowly, I became conscious of a stinging sensation in my right knee.ĭamn, I’d been shot. I couldn’t see much beyond the foot of the guy lying in front of me, who kept twitching as bullets pinged off the pavement. ![]() Crack! CRACK! That spooked the heavily armed troops defending the palace. To get over there I grabbed a Manila Hotel driver and we hopped into his roomy white Mercedes- budgets were very different then- and navigated through the dark to confront a bizarre street scene. “Something might happen there tonight.” President Ferdinand Marcos and First Lady Imelda were hunkered down inside, facing what had seemed a peaceful revolution, but guarded by combat-hardened soldiers. Late one night, a Filipino source phoned me suggesting I head over to the Presidential Palace. Just for instance, one editor visiting Hong Kong asked me to bring half a dozen shirts to his customary tailor to have new collars and cuffs put on.īut when women put themselves in the middle of the action, of course, they ran just the same risks as men, as I learned in Manila in 1986. Imperious men largely dominated the media field. When I started out in journalism in the 1970s, it wasn’t just a different culture. By Melinda Liu Download the entire issue of Dateline here > Iraqi troops surrendered to her and her colleagues after the U.S.-led onslaught. Melinda Liu in Southern Iraq near Basra covering Desert Storm and its aftermath in 1991. ![]()
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