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P2: AMY BIEHL'S DAD DEAD.
Inspired by Amy's dedication to help disadvantaged South Africans, Peter and Linda Biehl supported amnesty for Amy's killers at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. They drew praise both in South Africa and internationally for their stance, which saw four young men released from jail where they had been serving 18 years for Amy's murder. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Biehl eventually settled in Newport Beach, California, with his wife and four children. He gave up a career in marketing when Amy was killed to help empower oppressed South Africans. A year after Amy's death her parents established the Amy Biehl Foundation in the United States to raise money to channel to disadvantaged communities in Guguletu. In September 1997 the Amy Biehl Foundation Trust was launched in South Africa. "Peter saw great hope in South Africa and also acquired strength from the South African people. He truly believed that it was a miraculous country," said Linda Biehl. The Trust today employs 87 South Africans, both male and female and of all races and ages, and runs various projects which benefit thousands of black children such as after school care, music, literacy, sewing and first aid. Even more people are employed at its two bakeries in the Western Cape, in the Strand and in George. "Amy's ...
- When Amy Biehl died, South Africa lost more than a friend. (Originated from...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service October 13, 1993 700+ words
...Newspapers CAPE TOWN, South Africa _ In one hour she...now it's spring in South Africa. Amy Biehl is rolling down the...a jackknife. When Amy Biehl died Aug. 25 in the...township of Guguletu, South Africa lost more than a friend...
- Prosecutors wrap up trial against Amy Biehl's murders; most have forgotten...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Burkins, Glenn October 12, 1994 700+ words
CAPE TOWN, South Africa _ Amy Biehl's murder was front-page news...during a racial uprising in one of South Africa's black townships. The death...outside Cape Town. She had come to South Africa to study politics as a Fulbright...
- BLUEPRINTS FOR LEADERSHIP; AMY BIEHL SCHOOL; PRINCIPAL AT NEW ELEMENTARY TAKES...
- Newspaper article from: The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM) November 16, 2009 700+ words
...NOTT Santa Fe's newest school, Amy Biehl at Rancho Viejo Community School...School graduate who was killed in South Africa in 1993 while she was advocating...built since at least 2000. The Amy Biehl school will use geothermal heating...
- Families in Africa, U.S., Face Tragedies in Amy Biehl's Death
- Newspaper article from: Los Angeles Sentinel Sam Venter November 9, 1994 700+ words
...Face Tragedies in Amy Biehl's Death. A judge...of American student Amy Biehl. "The deceased was...by black militants in South Africa. They also shouted...that Biehl had come to South Africa to support the cause...
- Amy Biehl's killers jailed for 18 years
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London October 27, 1994 700+ words
...blooded and brutal" murder of a white American student, Amy Biehl. The prosecution had sought death sentences for Mongesi...She was murdered the day before she was due to leave South Africa, after spending 10 months there. Reuter
- Friends remember Amy Biehl as a woman of honor. (Originated from Knight-Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Koh, Barbara Petersen, Melody August 27, 1993 700+ words
...Clinton, from the U.S. ambassador in South Africa and from the South African ambassador...politics. But there was plenty of joy in Amy Biehl's life. She lived with Jacobs, 30...m very black,'' she said, ``In South Africa, you don't hold hands or dance with...
- WOMAN'S KILLERS ARE FREED VIA AMNESTY AMY BIEHL'S PARENTS SUPPORT THE...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) July 29, 1998 700+ words
Five years after American student Amy Biehl died at the hands of a mob, her killers...1993 drew international attention to South Africa's racial violence. Vusumzi Ntamo...Biehl, a Fulbright scholar, was in South Africa to help with voter registration for...
- The Trials of Linda Biehl; A Murder Victim's Mother Searches for Justice in...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Paul Taylor March 7, 1994 700+ words
...visitors discover about South Africa, although rarely under...had a deep commitment to South Africa's struggle against apartheid. Amy Biehl, 26, had been studying...family had traveled to South Africa to participate in a series...
