In a shocking incident, author Salman Rushdie was attacked as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. A reporter of the Associated Press witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution. According to the reporter, the man began punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being introduced.

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