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Terry Anderson, longest held hostage in Beirut, Lebanon, to appear at CU By Joan C. McKinney News from Campbellsville University CAMPBELLSVILLE, KY - Campbellsville University will host a conversation with Terry Anderson, visiting lecturer at the University of Kentucky's School of Journalism and Telecommunications, Thursday, April 15, 2010, at 2pmCT, in Ransdell Chapel, 401 N. Hoskins AV, Campbellsville, KY. Anderson, 62, gained international prominence in the 1980s for being the best known, and longest held, American hostage captured by Shiite Muslims in Beirut, Lebanon. He was chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press at the time of his capture, which lasted seven years. Anderson is a former journalist, writer, professor, columnist, poet and lecturer. He has worked in television and radio news, as a newspaper editor, wire service reporter and foreign correspondent. He subsequently wrote a book about his experiences as a hostage, Den of Lions, and produced and narrated a prize-winning documentary (CNN and PBS) about his return to Lebanon five years after his release, and that country's recovery from its 16-year civil war. He taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and Ohio University's Scripps School of Journalism, and is currently a visiting lecturer at the University of Kentucky's School of Journalism and Telecommunications. He is honorary chair of the Committee to Protect Journalists, which monitors press freedom around the world.A former Marine and Vietnam veteran, he is founder and co-chair of the Vietnam Children's Fund, which has built more than 40 elementary schools in that country. He holds a bachelor of arts in journalism and political science from Iowa State University.For more information about the event at CU, contact Stan McKinney, assistant professor of journalism, at (270) 789-5035 or e-mail somckinney@campbellsville.edu. This story was posted on 2010-03-31 20:21:42
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