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Tuesday, November 6, 2001
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
Journalist Charles Krause will give a lecture, "Terrorism: An In-Depth View," at 8:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 8, in Harbach Theater, ford center for the Fine Arts, at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois.
Krause, who received an emmy Award for his coverage of the Oslo peace accords, is chief foreign affairs correspondent for the PBS program "Newshour with Jim Lehrer." He has covered the Persian Gulf war, The Philippines, Latin America, and the Middle East for over fifteen years. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his first hand account of the deaths of more than 900 persons in the 1978 Peoples' Temple massacre at Jonestown, Guyana.
The lecture is sponsored by the Knox College Union Board.
Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 47 states and 42 nations. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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