Ashley Smith, who was held hostage in her apartment by courthouse shooting suspect Brian Nichols, has an incredible story to tell — a dramatic story almost out of a Hollywood drama. By excerpting it we almost will ruin it — so we’ll give you the link here.
Suffice to say it wasn’t happenstance that she was released. She talked to him, read to him from the Bible, and he told her he had enough killing. But she made it happen by her calmness and focus.
Read the whole thing. We won’t try to recount it to you — read the Q&A yourself.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.