Terry A. Anderson

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Terry A. Anderson
Anderson in 1996
Born(1947-10-27)October 27, 1947
Lorain, Ohio, U.S.
DiedApril 21, 2024(2024-04-21) (aged 76)
Greenwood Lake, New York, U.S.
Alma materIowa State University
OccupationJournalist
Employers
Known forHostage in Lebanon (1985–1991)
Spouses
Mihoko Anderson
​
(divorced)​
  • Madeleine Bassil
Children2
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Terry Alan Anderson (October 27, 1947 – April 21, 2024) was an American journalist and combat veteran. He reported for the

Ohio State Senate
.

Early life

Anderson was born in

Batavia High School in 1965.[4] A professional journalist, he was in the United States Marine Corps for six years, serving as a combat journalist. He served two tours of duty in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.[5] After his discharge he enrolled at Iowa State University, graduating in 1974 with dual degrees: one in journalism and mass communication, the other in political science. During his studies at Iowa State, he was employed as a part time photographer and reporter at the KRNT radio and television station in Des Moines.[3][6][7] He then joined the Associated Press, serving in Asia and Africa before being assigned to Lebanon as chief Middle Eastern correspondent in 1983.[3]

Hostage in Lebanon

Main article: Lebanon hostage crisis
Anderson being welcomed home to Lorain, Ohio, on June 21, 1992

On March 16, 1985, Anderson had just finished a tennis game when he was abducted from the street in

Muslim and Druze targets in Lebanon. He was the longest-held of the Western hostages captured by Hezbollah in an effort to drive U.S. military forces from Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War.[9][10][a]

Anderson was released on December 4, 1991,[12] and said he had forgiven his captors.[13] Later, when asked if he would return to the Middle East as a correspondent, he stated, "I wouldn't go there for a million dollars. It is very dangerous."[14]

Post-captivity life

After his release, Anderson taught courses at the

E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University.[16] He wrote a best selling memoir of his experience as a hostage, titled Den of Lions.[17][18][19] He filed suit against the Iranian government for his captivity, and in 2002 was awarded a $324 million settlement from frozen Iranian assets.[20] Estimates put the amount he actually received at $26 million.[16]

Anderson for some time lived in

S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.[25][26] In 2013, he acted as Honorary Chair of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a non-profit that supports press freedom around the globe.[27] In 2014, he moved to Hidden Village in Gainesville, Florida, to teach a course in international journalism at the University of Florida.[28]

Philanthropy

With some of his settlement, Anderson and actress Kieu Chinh co-founded the Vietnam Children's Fund, which has built more than 50 schools in Vietnam.[29][30]

Anderson also created the Father Lawrence Jenco Foundation with a $100,000 endowment to honor and support people who do charitable and community service projects in Appalachia. Lawrence Jenco was a former Catholic Relief Services director in Beirut who also was kidnapped. The two men met in jail.[31] Jenco, who died in 1996, wrote his memoirs, Bound to Forgive, for which Anderson wrote the preface.[32]

2004 State Senate campaign

In December 2003 Anderson announced his candidacy on the

Republican candidate Joy Padgett, who had been appointed to the seat earlier in the term. Padgett ran controversial ads suggesting that Anderson would be soft on terrorism: the ads showed Anderson shaking hands with one of his former kidnappers.[33] He received 46% of the vote[34] in a district that leans Republican; the seat has been held by Republicans since 1977.[35]

Personal life

Anderson was married and divorced three times.

Maronite Christian family; they had one daughter, Sulome Anderson, born in 1985,[37][38][39] three months after he was taken hostage.[40][41][42] Anderson and Bassil were married after his release, but later divorced.[36]

A fan of

blues music, Anderson owned the Blue Gator from early 2002 until mid-2008, a blues bar in Athens, Ohio, which hosted regional and national acts.[43][44][45]

In an interview in the spring 1995 newsletter of the School of Journalism Alumni Association, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, by Will Norton Jr., Anderson is quoted:

Is there going to be peace in the world? I'm a Christian. I believe eventually there will be, at the

totalitarian societies, and those are breaking up now. Certainly the totalitarian instinct has not gone away. There are a great many wars going on and struggles by peoples, but that ice jam, that blockage that was representative of the domination of a third of the world by communism, is gone. I think that's reason for great optimism.[46]

Anderson died at his home in Greenwood Lake, New York, on April 21, 2024, at the age of 76. He had recently undergone heart surgery.[36][47][48][49]

Anderson's papers are held at Iowa State University.[50]

See also

Notes

  1. Irangate scandal.[11]

References

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  4. Stephen M. Hawley
    , to whom he had entrusted the bust, chose to donate it to the school from which they both graduated in 1965.
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  19. ^ "Den of Lions: Memoirs of Seven Years by Terry Anderson". www.publishersweekly.com. August 30, 1993. Retrieved April 24, 2024.
  20. ^ "تری اندرسون، گروگان سابق شبه‌نظامیان شیعه لبنانی در ۷۶ سالگی درگذشت" [Terry Anderson, former hostage of Lebanese Shiite militia, dies at 76]. BBC (in Persian). April 22, 2024. Archived from the original on April 23, 2024. Retrieved April 23, 2024.
  21. ^ Alessi, Ryan (December 19, 2008). "Former Middle East hostage Terry Anderson to teach at UK". Lexington Herald-Leader. Archived from the original on July 15, 2010. Retrieved April 18, 2010.
  22. ^ "Former AP Reporter/Middle East Hostage Teaching at UK". University of Kentucky News. January 15, 2009. Archived from the original on January 17, 2009.
  23. ^ "Terry Anderson Gives University of Kentucky Students a Global Perspective". YouTube.com. September 25, 2009. Archived from the original on December 12, 2021.
  24. ^ Phillips, Jim (November 13, 2009). "Terry Anderson, ex-hostage, files for bankruptcy". The Columbus Dispatch. Archived from the original on January 22, 2013.
  25. ^ McChesney, Charles (April 30, 2011). "Ex-hostage Terry Anderson to teach at Syracuse University's Newhouse School next year". The Post-Standard. Syracuse, New York. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
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  29. ^ "Anderson, Khashoggi, Ressa and Ut named SPJ Fellows of the Society". Society of Professional Journalists. August 22, 2019. Archived from the original on January 8, 2024. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
    C. McKinney, Joan (March 31, 2010). "CU to hold 'Conversation with Terry Anderson' April 15". Campbellsville University. Archived from the original on January 8, 2024. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
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  37. ^ a b Sun Sentinel: "Anderson`s Fiancee Kept Quiet Watch" By MARJORIE WILLIAMS Archived August 11, 2014, at the Wayback Machine December 18, 1991
  38. ^ Deseret News: "TERRY ANDERSON: DEN OF LIONS; HOSTAGE'S LIFE FULL OF PAIN AND MEMORIES" From Den of Lions: Memoirs of Seven Years By Terry Anderson Archived August 12, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Published September 30, 1993, by TMS Corp.
  39. ^ Sulome Anderson (July 22, 2014). "I'm Arab-American. My Boyfriend Is Jewish. A Selfie of Us Kissing Has Become a Viral Symbol of Peace". Intelligencer. Archived from the original on March 6, 2022. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
  40. ^ "Anderson family: Life after ordeal in Beirut had its share of torture | The Seattle Times". archive.seattletimes.com. Archived from the original on March 6, 2022. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
  41. ^ "Kiss and tell: Arab-Jewish peck goes viral". Al Arabiya English. July 22, 2014. Archived from the original on March 6, 2022. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
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  43. ^ Staff Writer (June 25, 2008). "Anderson may lose Athens farm". The Columbus Dispatch. Archived from the original on January 8, 2024. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
  44. ^ Alessi, Ryan (December 19, 2008). "Former Middle East hostage Terry Anderson to teach at UK". Lexington Herald-Leader. Archived from the original on January 8, 2024. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
  45. ^ Phillips, John (July 3, 2012). "Former blues-bar building purchased for $450,000". The Athens News. Athens, Ohio. Archived from the original on April 22, 2024. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
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  47. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived
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  50. ^ "Terry A. Anderson Papers, MS 272, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library".

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