In 1985, Anderson became one of several Westerners abducted by members of the Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah during a time of war that had plunged Lebanon into chaos.
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.
Terry Anderson, the former Batavia resident who became one of America s longest-held hostages when he was kidnapped by Islamic militants in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for more than
After graduating from high school, Anderson turned down a scholarship to the University of Michigan in favor of enlisting in the Marines, where he rose to the rank of staff sergeant while seeing combat during the Vietnam War.