| Episode 28: May 23, 2007
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| A Mighty Heart |
| On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl’s
world changed forever. Her husband Daniel, South Asia
bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching
a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew them
to Karachi where a go-between had promised access to an
elusive source. As Danny left for the meeting, he told
Mariane he might be late for dinner. He never returned.
In the face of death, Danny’s spirit of defiance
and his unflinching belief in the power of journalism
led Mariane to write about his disappearance, the intense
effort to find him and his eventual murder in her memoir
A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband
Danny Pearl. Six months pregnant when the ordeal began,
she was carrying a son that Danny hoped to name Adam.
She wrote the book to introduce Adam to the father he
would never meet. Transcending religion, race and nationality,
Mariane’s courageous desire to rise above the bitterness
and hatred that continues to plague this post 9/11 world,
serves as the purest expression of the joy of life she
and Danny shared. |
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