LC control no. | no2015148395 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Foley, James, 1973-2014 |
Variant(s) | Foley, Jim, 1973-2014 |
Associated country | United States |
Birth date | 1973-10-18 |
Death date | 2014 |
Field of activity | Journalism |
Found in | Harkin, James. Hunting season, 2015: title page (James Foley) Wikipedia article, accessed November 5, 2015 (James Wright "Jim" Foley (October 18, 1973 - c. August 19, 2014) was an American journalist and video reporter. While working as a freelance war correspondent during the Syrian Civil War, he was abducted on November 22, 2012, in northwestern Syria. He was beheaded in August 2014 purportedly as a response to American airstrikes in Iraq, thus becoming the first American citizen killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).) |
Associated language | eng |