Journalist Helps Save the Life of Pope Paul VI

50 years after, he debunks the Marcos lie

Napoleon Beltran

5 min readDec 3, 2020

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Journalist Helps Save the Life of Pope Paul VI — Photo, as seen in Alex Alan's Facebook post on the assassination of Pope Paul VI.

Pope descends on a plane, overlooking thousands of people waiting to have a glimpse of the Vicar of Christ, the leader of the Catholic Church. A priest lunges on the Pope with a 10-inch knife in an…

Napoleon Beltran

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Half-century young, ex-cruise snapper turned scribe. Dog-dad to Phi Phi & Crocker. Manila born, 80 countries richer, Universe speck. Still can't find my glasses

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