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Terry Anderson graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in journalism and political science. He went on to report for the Associated Press and, in 1985, was taken captive while reporting in Lebanon. He was released in 1991.
Terry Anderson, the AP 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.
Terry Anderson, an American journalist who was held captive by Islamic militants in Lebanon for more than six years before being released in 1991, has died, according to his daughter.