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Salman Rushdie interviewer reveals eye injuries from defending novelist | New York Post

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The moderator who was about to interview Salman Rushdie when he was attacked and stabbed on stage by a crazed knife wielder has revealed the painful injuries he got while trying to defend the novelist.

Henry Reese, 73, was barely able to open his blackened right eye as he spoke late Tuesday to the BBC about last Friday’s attack at the Chautauqua Institution, about 55 miles south of Buffalo.

As well as deep bruising ringing the eye, he had several stitches above it from a knife wound suffered while holding down the legs of the man who stormed onstage and repeatedly stabbed Rushdie.

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