This is exactly right.

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And then all of a sudden, 14 year old Jennifer Chappell looks out the window and she

sees a couple of things

streaking across the sky and then they hear explosions

and then the plane shutters violently.

The people who are outside looking through the window realize their fighter planes and they're bombing the airport.

People are screaming and shouting, get out, get out, get out.

I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a non-fiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas.

I'm also the host of the Historical True Crime Podcast, Tenfold War Wicked on Exactly Right.

I've traveled around the world interviewing people for the show.

I've interviewed some people in person and some from my home studio over Zoom.

And they are all excellent writers.

They've had so many great true crime stories, and now we want to tell you those stories with details

that have never been published.

Tenfold More Wicked Presents Wicked Words is about the choices that

writers make good and bad. It's a deep dive into the stories behind the stories.

Today I'm talking with author Stephen Davis. He wrote a book called Flight 149, a hostage crisis, a special secret forces unit, and the origins of the Gulf War. This is a harrowing story

about hundreds of passengers who are held for up to five months in Kuwait as they

sit right in the middle of a war.

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