Bill Stewart

Bill Stewart (d. June 20, 1979) was a reporter for ABC news in the US who was summarily shot by Nicaraguan government forces while reporting in Managua in 1979. Stewart was originally from West Virginia, and was a 1963 graduate of Ohio State University. An experienced foreign correspondent, Stewart had been in Nicaragua for a month reporting on the civil war between the American-backed dictatorship and the leftist Sandinistas. On June 20, 1979 Stewart was travelling in a van in the capital city of Managua with his camera crew when they were stopped at a checkpoint run by the Nicaraguan National Guard, the main force of President Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The van was marked as a press vehicle as a precaution. The young lieutenant in...