On the Front Line with Marie Colvin

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 14, 2013

War correspondent Marie Colvin was killed in a rocket attack in February 2012 while she was covering the uprising in Syria. Her sister Cat Colvin and colleague Paul Conroy discuss Marie Colvin’s life and work. On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin includes her interviews with Yasser Arafat and Colonel Gadaffi; reports from East Timor in 1999; accounts of her terrifying escape from the Russian army in Chechnya; and reports from the strongholds of the Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers where she was hit by shrapnel, leaving her blind in one eye. Conroy’s book Under the Wire looks back at their friendship and the final year he spent alongside Marie.

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