{"id":"6wo1987","internal_id":"e74ee73a-54bb-48ec-b505-61f72bcdc1c2","links":{"img_thumbnail":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/downloads/deriv/d7re5v6/thumb_large_2X?disposition=inline","html_self":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/6wo1987"},"title":"Tellex Report: \"The Plight of Two US Businessmen\" Broadcast Transcript","additional_title":[],"format":["text"],"genre":["Records (Documents)"],"medium":[],"extent":[],"language":["English"],"provenance":"","subject":["Ransom","Political kidnapping","Hostage negotiations","El Salvador--Politics and government--1944-1979","El Salvador--History--Coup d'état, 1979","El Salvador--History--1979-1992","Beckman Instruments, Inc."],"department":"Archives","series_arrangement":["Series VII. Salvadoran Kidnappings and Negotiations"],"rights":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/","rights_holder":"","digitization_funder":"","file_creator":"Auerbach, Jahna","description":"Transcript of an interview between Willard (Bill) Gregory, Hugh Sykes, and Wendy Jones. \n\nBeckman Instruments had a subsidiary company and manufacturing plant called Aplar in El Salvador. In 1979 the country was on the brink of a civil war that would ultimately span three decades. On September 21, 1979, the manager of the Aplar plant, Dennis McDonald, and a Beckman Instruments engineer, Fausto Bucheli, were kidnapped by members of the guerrilla movement and held for ransom. The terms of their release were the payment of a ransom as well as publication of a manifesto in various newspapers worldwide. Beckman Instruments paid the ransom and published the manifesto, leading to the release of the hostages after forty-seven days of captivity.","description_html":"<p>Transcript of an interview between Willard (Bill) Gregory, Hugh Sykes, and Wendy Jones. </p>\n\n<p>Beckman Instruments had a subsidiary company and manufacturing plant called Aplar in El Salvador. In 1979 the country was on the brink of a civil war that would ultimately span three decades. On September 21, 1979, the manager of the Aplar plant, Dennis McDonald, and a Beckman Instruments engineer, Fausto Bucheli, were kidnapped by members of the guerrilla movement and held for ransom. The terms of their release were the payment of a ransom as well as publication of a manifesto in various newspapers worldwide. Beckman Instruments paid the ransom and published the manifesto, leading to the release of the hostages after forty-seven days of captivity.</p>","published_at":"2026-11-13T18:24:48Z","updated_at":"2026-11-13T18:24:48Z","creator":[],"date_of_work":[{"start":"1979-10-16","start_qualifier":"","finish":"","finish_qualifier":"","note":"","formatted":"1979-Oct-16"}],"place":[{"category":"place_of_creation","value":"England--London"}],"inscription":[],"related_link":[],"additional_credit":[],"physical_container":{"box":"48","folder":"2","volume":"","part":"","page":"","shelfmark":"","reel":"","formatted":"Box 48, Folder 2"}}