Keithley was one of those who heeded Jaime Cardinal Sin’s appeal to defend the beleaguered anti-Marcos group. Instead of heading for the military headquarters, or joining the growing crowd on Edsa, she went where her gifts—her charism, to use a particularly resonant theological term—led her: to Radio Veritas, the Catholic Church’s lead radio station.
In a very fluid situation, with potentially grave consequences for unarmed civilians caught between heavily equipped and highly trained military factions, Reuter, a communications expert, realized it was vital to have a central source of information, a focus of coordination. He called on his protégé to serve as that focus, that source.
In Veritas, Keithley worked with other anchors; they gave continuous updates, they issued appeals and cautions; not least, they found the perfect soundtrack for a revolution-in-the-making: “Mambo Magsaysay,†the upbeat campaign jingle of the late president Ramon Magsaysay from three decades before.
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