He became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Beirut.
Former U.S. hostage Terry Anderson and his fiancée, Madeleine Bassil, arrive at John F. Kennedy Airport on Dec., 10, 1991. Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died at 76.
He also struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder, won millions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets after a federal court concluded that the country played a role in his capture, then lost most of it to bad investments. He filed for bankruptcy in 2009.Upon retiring from the University of Florida in 2015, Mr. Anderson settled on a small horse farm in a rural section of northern Virginia he had discovered while camping with friends.
“Because in their terms, people who go around asking questions in awkward and dangerous places have to be spies,” he later told the Orange County Review in Virginia. By his and other hostages’ accounts, he was also their most hostile prisoner, constantly demanding better food and treatment, arguing religion and politics with his captors, and teaching other hostages sign language and where to hide messages so they could communicate privately.He managed to retain a quick wit and biting sense of humor during his long ordeal.
The couple married soon after his release but divorced a few years later, and although they remained on friendly terms, Anderson and his daughter were estranged for years.“I love my dad very much. My dad has always loved me. I just didn’t know that because he wasn’t able to show it to me,” Sulome Anderson told the AP in 2017.
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