- José Antonio Gurriarán
José Antonio Gurriarán (born
1939 ) is a Spanish journalist, assistant director of the "Pueblo" newspaper.Being accidentally injured during an
3 October Organization attack inMadrid , inDecember 29 ,1980 , he was interested what the group's purposes were, he found and interviewedArmenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia members [ [http://www.elpais.com/articulo/ultima/GURRIARaN/_JOSe_ANTONIO_/PERIODISTA/Jose/Antonio/Gurriaran/elpepiult/19820404elpepiult_2/Tes/GENTE José Antonio Gurriarán, by El Pais, 04/04/1982] ] . In 1982 his "La Bomba" book was published, supporting the Armenian cause. The book reissued several times also in English translation.La bomba
On
December 30 ,1980 , Jose Antonio left the building of the newspaper "The People" (Pueblo) and entered a telephone booth to talk to his wife. The plan was to go to see a movie byWoody Allen and then to have a dinner at a restaurant. It was the end of the year. When Jose Antonio put down the headset two bombs exploded in the nearby headquarters of airlines Swissair and TWA was. Nobody died but among the 9 injured was Jose Antonio.As soon as he was released from the hospital, Jose Antonio wanted to know who made that attack. Still in the hospital, where he struggled to save both his legs, he started to read books and materials about the case and the history of the Armenians.
Combining therapy recovery with the detailed study of a nation, in 1982 he found and met the leaders of ASALA in Lebanon. Militants were covered their faces with balaclavas and never left the Kalashnikov throughout the day. The Spanish journalist, relied on his cane, gave a gift, a book by Martin Luther King, to the leader of the Armenian group, to think about the path they have chosen.
Soonly after the incident, "La Bomba" was released, telling the personal experience of a Spanish journalist and the tragic story of survival of a whole nation.
Books
*La Bomba Un No Rotundo A La Destruccion Y A La Muerte Y Un Viva A La Vida, 1982, Librería Anticuaria Raimundo (Cádiz, Spain)
References
*La Bomba, by José Antonio Gurriarán, 1982, El doctor Centeno, Jerez de la Frontera, CA, Spain (ISBN: 8432036323)
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Armenian genocide Links
* [http://www.iberlibro.com/search/sortby/3/kn/+GURRIARAN+JOSE+ANTONIO+BOMBA+LA José Antonio Gurriarán, La Bomba]
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