Hesh has worked as a journalist for '' Newsday '' , '' Forbes '' , and the '' New York Herald Tribune '' . In the 1980s Kestin was a senior European correspondent for '' Forbes '' magazine , covering Africa and the Middle East as well as Europe . He escaped being of the victims of the 1985 Rome and Vienna airport attacks carried out by the Palestine Liberation Organization in which 19 passengers and were killed ( along with 4 terrorists ) , because he had been out drinking the night before and had failed to wake up in time to get to the airport
1985 Rome and Vienna airport attacks
1985 Rome and Vienna airport attacks
Hesh Kestin