The interviewer who tried to stop a stabbing attack on novelist Salman Rushdie’s alleged attacker at first thought it was a prank, he testified in court Thursday.
Henry Reese, 75, had just sat down to interview Rushdie when the author was stabbed in a frenzied knife attack in August 2022 in front of a lecture audience at Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater in western New York state.
