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Terry Alan Anderson (October 27, 1947 – April 21, 2024) was an American journalist and combat veteran. He reported for the Associated Press . [ 1 ] In 1985, he was taken hostage by Shia Hezbollah militants of the Islamic Jihad Organization in Lebanon [ 2 ] and held until 1991.
Terry Anderson, a U.S. journalist who was held captive in Lebanon in 1980s died on Sunday at age 76. ... His sister, Peggy Say, who died in 2015, was his fiercest advocate during captivity.
Terry Anderson, a US journalist and Iowa State University graduate, was held hostage in Lebanon nearly seven years, from 1985 to 1991. He dies at 76. ... His sister, Peggy Say, who died in 2015 ...
Fellow former hostages, family and coworkers celebrated the life of journalist and philanthropist Terry Anderson Wednesday, remembering a man who helped others while struggling to heal himself.
Peggy Ann was born August 16, 1948, the oldest of six children of Eugene and Mildred Bradnick. At the time she was kidnapped, she had a brother Jim (age 16); a sister Mary Louise (11); twin brother and sister Donnie and Debbie (9); and a sister Carol Jean (8). The family lived near Shade Gap, Pennsylvania, a small village in Huntingdon County ...
The cause of death was unknown, though his daughter said Anderson recently had heart surgery. After returning to the United States in 1991, Anderson led a peripatetic life, giving public speeches, teaching journalism at several prominent universities and, at various times, operating a blues bar, Cajun restaurant, horse ranch and gourmet restaurant.
Terry Blair was the fourth eldest of ten siblings, and was born to a mother who suffered from mental illness and had only finished the 9th grade. [1] He had two sons and two grandsons. [2] Many in Blair's family have faced criminal charges, including murder. Blair's mother, Janice, shot and killed her common-law husband on August 16, 1978.
Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for ...