US journalist Terry Anderson dies on April 21 at the age of 76, his daughter Sulome says in a statement
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Kept in barely-lit cells by mostly Shi’ite Muslim groups in what was known as The Hostage Crisis, and chained by his hands and feet and blindfolded much of the time, the former Marine later recalled that he “almost went insane” and that only his Roman Catholic faith prevented him from taking his life before he was freed in December 1991.
During captivity, both his father and brother would die of cancer and he would not see his daughter Sulome until she was six years old. “There is a limit of how long we can last and some of us are approaching the limit very badly,” Anderson said in a videotape released by his captors in December 1987.
Scores of journalist groups, governments and individuals over the years called for Anderson’s release and his October 27 birthday became an unofficial US memorial day for hostages. Born Oct. 27, 1947, in Lorain, Ohio, Anderson grew up in Batavia, New York. He graduated from Iowa State University and spent six years in the Marine Corps, mostly as a journalist.
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