When Bob Simon worried he’d be killed for being a Jew
Published February 12, 2015
Bob Simon attends The Hollywood Reporter 35 Most Powerful People In Media Celebration, April 16, 2014 in New York City. (Rob Kim/Getty Images)
Journalist Bob Simon, who died last night in a car accident, had a brush with death almost 25 years earlier.
As a prisoner of the Iraqis, during the first Persian Gulf War, he worried “his Jewishness might cost him his life,” JTA reported in this 1991 article.
“I thought my number was up when they started accusing me of being a member of Mossad,” he told JTA.
Julie Wiener is JTA’s online editor. Follow her on Twitter @Julie_Wiener
