Bill Stewart was a reporter for ABC news in the US who was summarily shot by Nicaraguan government forces while reporting in Managua in 1979.
Stewart was originally from West Virginia, and was a 1963 graduate of Ohio State University. An experienced foreign correspondent, Stewart had been in Nicaragua for a month reporting on the civil war between the American-backed government and the leftist Sandinistas.
On June 20, 1979 Stewart was travelling ...
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Bill Stewart was a reporter for ABC news in the US who was summarily shot by Nicaraguan government forces while reporting in Managua in 1979.
Stewart was originally from West Virginia, and was a 1963 graduate of Ohio State University. An experienced foreign correspondent, Stewart had been in Nicaragua for a month reporting on the civil war between the American-backed government and the leftist Sandinistas.
On June 20, 1979 Stewart was travelling in a van in the capital city of Managua with his camera crew when they were stopped at a checkpoint run by the Nicaraguan National Guard, the main force of President Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The van was marked as a press vehicle as a precaution.
The young lieutenant in charge of the checkpoint saw Stewart peer out of the passenger window and came and ordered him out of the vehicle. Stewart was accompanied by Juan Espinosa, his interpreter. Stewart held a white flag and official press documentation from the Nicaraguan government. While...
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