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How Television Saved a Life
Summary: Provides the details of a real life hostage crisis in Jacksonville, Florida. Analyzes the role that television played in the successful conclusion of the crisis.
Did anyone ever think that people's form of entertainment and relaxation would save a person's life? On August 4, 2004 an attorney was held hostage at Riverplace Tower, a 28-story downtown office building in Jacksonville, Florida. The man that held the attorney hostage said he was holding the attorney to gunpoint and that he planted a bomb in the building. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office sent in police to evacuate the rest of the high-rise while hostage experts had the man telling Mayor John Peyton his demands to release the hostage. The man told the mayor that he wanted Judge Sharon Tanner to resign on television because of what he thought was an unfair trial he had in front of her. In the tensest hour of this live "television action drama", the judge comes to the site of the hostage situation. Television reporters all run to her for comments as she...
This section contains 843 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |