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Post by 49ersfootball on Jul 6, 2021 21:24:15 GMT
BREAKING NEWS: FORMER PHILIPPINE SENATOR, OPPOSITION LEADER BENIGNO AQUINO, JR., ASSASSINATED ON THE TARMAC OF MANILA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. 6:37 PM PHST, Sunday, August 21st, 1983
Manila, Philippines Immediately once Ninoy was assassinated, international news media began breaking into regular programming to report on what had just transpired in Manila & reporting new developments on the assassination: ABC News Correspondent Jim Laurie reported the story live in Manila first on the air on ABC's "This Week" & later in the evening back in the States, Sam Donaldson reported on the Aquino assassination during the weekend evening newscast of "World News Tonight Sunday" from the Washington DC Bureau HQ. |
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Post by 49ersfootball on Jul 6, 2021 21:34:24 GMT
President Reagan 12:43 PM EST, Sunday, August 21st, 1983
Situation Room, White House
Washington, DC June 7th, 1982: US President Ronald Reagan & US First Lady Nancy Reagan meeting with Pope John Paul II. Upon learning of the assassination of former Philippine Senator & opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr., in Manila, President Reagan held a closed-door meeting with US Vice President George HW Bush, Secretary of State George P. Shultz, US Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger & several others. Later in the situation room, Reagan asked Shultz if anyone inside the Philippine government were involved in the Aquino assassination including the possibility rouge elements inside the Philippine government had been involved . Shultz replied he wasn't sure considering the assassination in Manila had just happened & an investigation into what occurred would be taking place soon. He also informed the President he would be contacting his Philippine counterpart on the latest developments.
Originally, President Reagan was supposed to be doing an upcoming state visit to the Philippines later in the fall of 1983, but the Aquino assassination & the ongoing developments caused President Reagan to cancel the state visit altogether. Despite his slow distancing from the authoritarian Marcos dictatorship, Reagan was not willing to risk damaging the US-Philippine alliance including his close relationship with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos (they met during Reagan's time as CA Governor back in the late 1960s) due to several factors: the communist threat wreaking havoc in the Pacific & other parts of the world, US military bases in the Philippines, foreign aid to the Marcos regime & Philippine government including economic investments). |
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Post by 49ersfootball on Jul 6, 2021 21:41:48 GMT
COMING SOON IN CHAPTER 3 OF THE AQUINO'S How the Marcoses grappled with the aftermath of Ninoy's assassination & the inevitable backlash against their long authoritarian rule..... |
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Post by 49ersfootball on Jul 19, 2021 2:47:54 GMT
Coming up this week in Chapter 3: I'll be doing a segment on the Aquino family returning to the Philippines.
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Post by 49ersfootball on Aug 11, 2021 22:34:59 GMT
COMING UP IN CHAPTER 3 OF THE AQUINO'S Profile on Butz Aquino Attachments:
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Post by 49ersfootball on Sept 23, 2021 16:24:27 GMT
COMING SOON IN CHAPTER 3 OF THE AQUINO'S Filipinos paying respects to Ninoy Attachments:
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Post by 49ersfootball on Nov 30, 2021 22:55:54 GMT
Kris & Cory Sunday, August 21st, 1983
Boston, MA 
For Cory, she was pretty much the de-facto leader of the opposition following getting notification of her husband's assassination. It was only a matter of time before she would be called upon to lead the opposition against the Marcos dictatorship in the next few years; she showed strong resolve, calm demeanor & doing quite well during an ABC News interview from Sam Donaldson of ABC News, who was subbing-in for Ted Koppel.
However, for Kris, the youngest of the five Aquino children: she was just 12 years old when her father was assassinated. She had to do some real growing up now & things were going to be very different for her as well. Her life that she knew in the short time of being with her parent was shattered when Ninoy was gunned down back in Manila. Showing strong resolve & not even showing fear or grief in public, Kris was going to have to come to terms with also participating in protests against the Marcos dictatorship. |
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Post by 49ersfootball on Jan 17, 2022 19:38:04 GMT
Tidbits on the TL:
Chapter 5:
1.) Eyewitness accounts of the August 21st Incident
2.) Political ramifications for the Philippines
3.) Entertainment highlights from the Fall of 1983
4.) National highlights from the Fall of 1983
5.) Profile on US Secretary of State George P. Shultz.
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Post by 49ersfootball on Jan 27, 2022 21:57:11 GMT
COMING SOON IN CHAPTER 4 OF THE AQUINO'S Profile on Cardinal Jaime Sin & how he would become one of the key figures in the downfall of the Marcos Dictatorship |
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Post by 49ersfootball on Jan 27, 2022 22:03:29 GMT
COMING UP IN CHAPTER 4 OF THE AQUINO'S How Fabian Ver became one of the most powerful & feared generals of the Armed Forces of the Philippines |
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Post by 49ersfootball on Mar 8, 2022 18:31:37 GMT
COMING UP THIS WEEK IN CHAPTER 3 OF THE AQUINO'S Fallout of Ninoy's assassination for the Philippines going forward... |
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Post by 49ersfootball on Mar 10, 2022 18:13:07 GMT
The Aftermath.... 10:00 AM PHST, Monday, August 22nd, 1983
Manila, Philippines 
With the single shot, the Philippines had been altered by assassination. The assassination of one of the arch-rivals of authoritarian Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, many had plenty of questions that needed to be answered: "Was the Philippine government involved in the assassination of Senator Aquino?", "What are the political implications of the assassination effecting Philippine-American relations?" These questions were going to continue to multiply non-stop & the Marcos government needed to find something quick & fast to deflect attention from increasing on him, his wife Imelda & senior members of his administration.
"He knew the risks he was running," Amelia Leiss, the associate director of the MIT International studies program, said yesterday. "He thought they were worth taking. He felt he could be a rallying point for the democratic forces in the country. He was a deeply patriotic man."
Dr. Benjamin Brown, retired director of the Harvard Center for International Studies, said Aquino had studied "peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy" there. Aquino didn't do no major writing at Harvard University, Brown said, because "He was preoccupied with what was happening in his country...He stayed in touch with everybody......He met and talked with everybody who could conceivably help him understand the Philippines." |
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Post by 49ersfootball on Apr 9, 2022 20:18:35 GMT
Personal PoV 3:16 PM PHST, Monday, August 22nd, 1983
Somewhere in the outskirts of Ilocos Norte, Philippines "On August 21st, I was satisfied with the job being finished. Former Senator Aquino was a threat to the Republic, who needed to be stopped by any means necessary.
Once it was done, the Secret Task Force scattered into other parts of the globe and went to countries with no extradition treaties with the Philippines. I calmly went back to Ilocos Norte and got home, relaxing by taking a shower and then went to bed to sleep.......
Fast forward to today, the 22nd of August, I turned on the television and watched news reports of the incident at the Manila International Airport from yesterday. Little did I realize that our mission was bound to have huge implications as well as ramifications for our country going forward....."
Kendra Velasquez
Ilocos Norte, Philippines
Living in Burgos.
August 22nd, 1983 |
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Post by 49ersfootball on Oct 9, 2023 22:40:36 GMT
BREAKING: This TL will be updated at some point this month.
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