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.n-hour standoff,
.aiiand unharmed and sur^
is still in jail under a $500,000
i3ut before siege ended, Jackson, who was
charged with murder and kidnapping, requested
that Bruce apologize on the air on
behalf of her station and "The 700 Club" for
spying on him.
When a police negotiator responded that
Bruce worked nights and was not available
(though she was, in reality, at the scene)
Jackson demanded her presence.
"You better find her to do it," Jackson said
before firing a warning shot, that,
unbeknownst to him, landed 25 feet away
from Bruce.
" 111 fffeimffingThot^irriolirimel)dnT^ h?
meant business," Bruce said. "At this time,
they felt it (setting up the interview) was the
only alternative they had."
Summit and WXI1 were already working on
the hookup.
Bruce made the bogus apology to Jackson
via a special closed-circuit setup engineered by
Summit Cable technician's around 4:30 p.m.
But it wasn't until 6 or 7 p.m., she says, that
she knew Jackson had asked specifically for
her.
Why does she think Jackson wanted her?
She's not certain, Bruce said, but she has a
theory. "If Ronnie Jackson wanted me to tell
people that we were spying on him, he had to
believe in me." she said. "sr> I Hnn'r think anv
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insidious discrimination."
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harm would have come to me. And (if she
were him) I don't think 1 would have picked
somebody that I didn't think was trustworthy
or credible."
"This man thought he knew me," she also
had said in an earlier interview, "and he obviously
felt comfortable with me."
Bruce's role reversal as a newsmaker rather
than a reporter didn't stop there, however.
She and fffcr news director, David C. Emery,
were interviewed on NBC's "Todav Show" a
week ago and she says she knows of articles
concerning the incident that appeared in USA
TodtSy and newspapers in cities as far away as
St. Louis and Chicago.
The publicity may hinge on the fact that the
use of technology in the Jackson case may
have been the first time something like that
has ever been done, Bruce said. But she's not
sure.
She is sure of one thing, however: "People
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"If we give it all the attention," she added,
"1 just hope it's for the right reason."
Her role and her station's role in the plan to
free Holland and persuade Jackson to surrender
was their humanitarian responsibility,
Bruce said.
"Yes, it was the right thing to do," she
said. "We need to make clear that it wasn't a
decision for WXII to make. The police
negotiators said to our management people .
that it was the last thing they knew that might
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didn't say, 'Oh, let's do this!"
"It's our human responsibility to aid when
we can be of help," she said. "... The important
thing is that we participated, and, as a
result, nobody else got hurt."
As for the effects of the event on her personally,
"it is a little frightening," Bruce said,
particularly after she had had time to consider
what might have happened on that muggy
afternoon in June.
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if he had requested that before giving up?**
Fortunately, she'll never know.
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School for his 17 years in the gospel music business. The program, sponsored
by the Gospel Singers Federation of Winston-Salem, featured many local
singing artists. Martin, who works for WSMX-AM, was presented a trophy during
the program (photo by James Parker).
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