Meet the hippy man and help two great child initiatives
Friday, June 7, Isleworth
Mike Thexton's frightening and uplifting hijack story has been told on radio, on television, in a Federal Court in Washington and even in a dramatised documentary. Now let him tell the story direct to you. Meet the author, get him to sign a copy of his book and support two great causes at the same time. This special talk on June 7 is being held in aid of Kids’ Company, a national charity for vulnerable inner-city children and to support a local community football club for children. Tickets are just £10 (£5 concession) - including a welcome drink. Spaces are limited.
Email for details
Mike Thexton's frightening and uplifting hijack story has been told on radio, on television, in a Federal Court in Washington and even in a dramatised documentary. Now let him tell the story direct to you. Meet the author, get him to sign a copy of his book and support two great causes at the same time. This special talk on June 7 is being held in aid of Kids’ Company, a national charity for vulnerable inner-city children and to support a local community football club for children. Tickets are just £10 (£5 concession) - including a welcome drink. Spaces are limited.
Email for details
|
What happened to the hippy man?
Daybreak, Karachi, Pakistan, 5 September 1986: Four heavily armed Palestinian terrorists storm a Pan Am jumbo jet. The terrorists shoot a passenger and throw him off the plane. They then choose a bearded and unkempt young man, on his way home after a climbing expedition, as the next to die. He walks to the front of the plane past the other hostages including a young Indian girl, who, for months afterwards, asks her parents: “What happened to the Hippy Man?” This is his extraordinary story... Everyone has secretly thought what their last seconds would be like if they were the one about to be executed. How do you deal with the terror? What is it like years later to come face to face and be asked for forgiveness by someone who has slaughtered twenty people? Mike Thexton, 'the Hippy Man', tells us in the tale of Pan Am 073, the remarkable heroism of the day itself and its long aftermath now entangled in the American war on terror – right up to the launch in 2006 of a $10bn lawsuit against Libya and Colonel Gadaffy. |
Get Out Alive
Drama documentary
UK Discovery Channel British actor Dan Gingell plays Mike Thexton in a drama documentary about the hijacking... |
