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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rhian Lubin and Andrea Cavallier

MYSTERIOUS: Interviewer who tried to stop knife attack on novelist salman rushdie initially thought it was a prank - What They Never Told You

The interviewer who tried to stop a stabbing attack on novelist Salman Rushdie’s alleged attacker at first thought it was a prank, he testified in court Thursday.

Henry Reese, 75, had just sat down to interview Rushdie when the author was stabbed in a frenzied knife attack in August 2022 in front of a lecture audience at Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater in western New York state.

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