How Three Americans Stopped a Terrorist Attack on a Train to Paris

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 19, 2016

Anthony Sadler and Spencer Stone were on vacation with their friend Alek Skarlatos in Europe last August when they managed to thwart a terrorist attack that would have killed more than 500 people on the 15:17 train from Brussels to Paris. In The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes, they each talk about their personal lives and share their accounts of what happened and what led them to overpower the gunman.

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