Mr. Terry Anderson This is Me

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1. 1. vcmagazine.org

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   Published on: 4/29/2008   Last Visited: 4/29/2008

   Journalist Terry Anderson endured a terrible ordeal as a hostage of terrorists. Read what he said of the value of his experience as a captive:
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   Obviously, having a disability is not what made Roosevelt, Hopkins, Hawking or Anderson accomplish what they did.

2. 2. CPJ Board of Directors

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   Published on: 4/20/2008   Last Visited: 4/20/2008

   Terry Anderson
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   A former foreign correspondent for The Associated Press, Terry Anderson was held hostage for seven years by Shiite Hezbollah partisans attempting to drive the United States from Lebanon during the Lebanese civil war. He is the author of the bestseller Den of Lions, an account of his years as a hostage. In 1996 he returned to Lebanon to do a special report for CNN called Return to the Lion's Den.
   
   Since his release in 1991, Anderson has worked as a journalist, run small businesses, taught at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, and run for Ohio's state senate. He wrote a syndicated column for King Features on government and politics, and is a well-known speaker around the United States.
   
   Anderson was a combat correspondent with the U.S. Marines during the Vietnam War from 1969 to 1970. He went on to graduate from Iowa State University with a degree in broadcast journalism in 1974. He then joined The Associated Press, serving in Asia and Africa before being assigned to Lebanon as the chief Middle East correspondent in 1983.
   
   Anderson founded the Vietnam Children's Fund, which builds schools in Vietnam, and the Father Lawrence Jenco Foundation to support charity work in Appalachia. He has received numerous awards, both for journalism and community service, including the first Free Spirit Award from the Freedom Forum. He has settled in Athens, Ohio, where he is active in politics and charity.

3. 3. jencofoundation.org

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   Published on: 3/30/2008   Last Visited: 3/30/2008

   Terry Anderson (founder) is a writer and journalist, and has been a professor of journalism at Ohio University and Columbia University for the past six years. He is author of "Den of Lions," an account of his seven years as a hostage of pro-Iranian radicals in Lebanon; and writer and director of the CNN and PBS documentary "Return to the Den of Lions," about his first trip back to that country after his release. He is currently co-chairman of the Vietnam Children's Fund, which builds elementary schools in Vietnam, where Anderson served as a U.S. Marine during the Vietnam War, and vice-chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists, which works on behalf of journalists under attack around the world. He has received numerous awards for journalism and for community service.
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   Both Chip, and his wife, Terri, agree that Appalachian Ohio is home.