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This week in the studio a Veteran News Correspondent, In his four decade network news career some of the areas that he has covered are the Civil War in El Salvador, where he was kidnapped and threatened, The events leading to the Bombing of the barracks in Beirut, The Oklahoma City bombing where he spoke directly with the bomber himself, the Lockerbie tragedy,Baghdad, Afghanistan, Iraq, and was even embedded with son Carlos who is also a news correspondent in order to reconnect and gain the footage that was used in the Documentary The Hornets Nest. This man has covered a ton of world changing events and tonight we will hear what he was thinking and go behind the scenes of one of the last great worldwide correspondents of the news.
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Veteran network news correspondent, Mike Boettcher, has been recognized with journalism’s top awards for his coverage of events that shaped the world since 1980. He also helped launch the era of 24-hour live news coverage when on June 1, 1980, he performed the first live satellite report for a fledgling network called CNN. In a four- decade network career Boettcher received national recognition in all facets of broadcast journalism – breaking news, feature, war coverage and investigative reporting. He was also recognized for his investigations of the world’s most dangerous terrorist groups. As the chief correspondent for CNN’s terrorism intelligence unit, a team he created in the summer of 2000, Boettcher was awarded a Peabody and his third of six National Emmys.
Boettcher is frequently asked to lecture on the subject of terrorism and journalism at some of the world’s top institutions and corporations, including London’s Royal United Services Institute, Sweden’s National Defense College, Scotland’s St. Andrews University, West Point’s Senior Leaders Conference, U.S. Army Europe, U.S. Army War College, The Naval Post Graduate School and Stanford’s Hoover Institution. In three decades of assignments covering world conflict for NBC News, CNN and
ABC News, he has witnessed, investigated and been a victim of terrorism himself. He
was kidnapped and threatened with execution in El Salvador in 1985. Twenty years later, he survived a suicide bomber attack and a roadside bombing in Baghdad. Boettcher covered the emergence of modern terrorist tactics in the early 1980’s w…
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