Internationally-Acclaimed Docu on Ninoy’s Assassination Airs on ABS-CBN this Sunday
The documentary, which was first aired in 2013, received commendations from different award giving bodies, including a Silver World Medal (Graphic Design: Promotion/Open & ID category) and finalist certificate (Television: Documentary/Information Program category) from New York Festivals, and a Silver Screen Award (Television: Documentary Biography category) from US International Film & Video Festival.
More than three decades had passed but Ninoy’s assassination on the tarmac of Manila International Airport last August 21, 1983 has remained to be a huge puzzle for the Filipinos. The documentary, narrated by Jaime Fabregas, has reprised the biggest question of the people in the crime —- who killed, or who ordered to kill Ninoy? The documentary also aimed to educate the younger Filipino generation on this historical event.
Among the personalities who joined the painstaking review of the past were Ninoy’s brother Butz Aquino, Ninoy’s eldest daughter Ballsy Aquino, lawyer of one of the accused in the crime Atty. Mario Bautista, forensic expert Raquel Fortun, former defense minister Juan Ponce Enrile, former human rights lawyer Rene Saguisag, journalists tasked to cover the supposed comeback of Ninoy in Philippines Philip Lustre and Recto Mercene, and more.
Time Magazine correspondent Sarah Burton’s sounds on her microcassette recorder, one of the evidences in the crime that has been in the Sandiganbayan’s custody for the past 20 years, was also first heard in this documentary. For the first time, the Sandiganbayan has made the recording available for broadcast via ABS-CBN.
Burton’s recording captured the final seconds of Ninoy before he alighted from the plane, the moment he was shot, and the passengers’ reactions when they realized that the person they had just shared a flight with was already dead.
Don’t miss the award-winning “Agosto Beinte-Uno: Ang Pagpatay kay Ninoy Aquino” this Sunday (Agosto 24), after “Gandang Gabi Vice,” on ABS-CBN’s Sunday’s Best.
pang drama lang kayo kapamilya..pero in reality and current events….underacting kayo! bwahahaha
O ano mga Aquino? Bat until now eh di nio mapatunayan kung sinong herodes ang pumatay kay Ninoy? Akala ko ba si Marcos ang nagpapatay eh bakit hanggang ngayon eh nasa kangkungan pa rin ang kaso? sayang ang edsa revolution dahil puro kasinungalingan lang ang nangibabaw. sinamahan pa ng mga alagad kuno ng dios (ng sanlibutan) na hindi naman dapat kaya nagkaganyan na ang pinas…at itong mga taga simbahan sa halip na pigilan ang mga taga sunod nila na wag sumama sa rebulusyon at sumunod na lang sa batas dahil ang kay cesar ay para kay cesar…eh ayun, nangunguna pa ang madre at pari sa pagpoprotesta….tandaan nio, kung talagang alagad kayo ng Dios dapat hindi kayo sumasama sa mga rebeldeng propaganda na to..at kahit gano kasama ang gobyernong umiiral ay dapat batas pa rin ng Dios ang mangunguna..pero wala eh..kasi mga bulag kaya ganyan ang mga utak ng mga hunghang na yon..bakit ba ko nagpapaliwanag eh mga hunghang nga…