Special Joe Schlesinger: Foreign correspondent
In today's Special Jan's guest is Joe Schlesinger, one of Canada's most respected journalists, who for years was the CBC's - that is, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's - top foreign correspondent. Fifteen years ago - in 1989 during the fall of communism - Joe Schlesinger's news reports carried special resonance precisely because they marked a return to his homeland Czechoslovakia. As a boy Joe had been sent out of the country to escape the Nazis and the Holocaust. When he returned after the war, he learned his parents had not survived. And, the future looked dim again as Czechoslovakia's communists assumed power. Working then for the AP - the Associated Press -Schlesinger saw the first arrests and decided it was only a matter of time before he'd have to get out.
Joe Schlesinger, photo: www.cbc.ca
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