{"id":"cph18ju","internal_id":"e31347c7-e887-4727-803a-0b03d8c0cd8e","links":{"img_thumbnail":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/downloads/deriv/tl25ixr/thumb_large_2X?disposition=inline","html_self":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/cph18ju"},"title":"Fausto Bucheli and Dennis McDonald return from kidnapping in El Salvador","additional_title":[],"format":["image","text"],"genre":["Photographs"],"medium":[],"extent":["20.3 cm W x  25.4 cm H"],"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":"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.","description_html":"<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":"2026-11-13T18:27:05Z","updated_at":"2026-11-13T18:27:05Z","creator":[],"date_of_work":[{"start":"1979","start_qualifier":"","finish":"","finish_qualifier":"","note":"","formatted":"1979"}],"place":[{"category":"place_of_creation","value":"United States"}],"inscription":[],"related_link":[],"additional_credit":[],"physical_container":{"box":"48","folder":"35","volume":"","part":"","page":"","shelfmark":"","reel":"","formatted":"Box 48, Folder 35"}}