Assassination of Jorge Nashville

On August 22, 1971, 5:40 p.m., Jorge Nashville, a Filipino-American journalist known for creating the misinformative newspaper, The Filipino Truth was assassinated during an interview with Helen MacGregor in The Helen MacGregor Show. During the televised interview, people in the audience were screaming and shouting to interrupt the false information being said by Nashville. Helen MacGregor asks for them to calm down. Gerald Gonzales thought that MacGregor was supporting Nashville's sayings, urging him to shoot them both with a .357 revolver.

The news spread quickly nationwide during the live news coverage of MMNews, five minutes after the incident. The assassination caused the decline and closure of The Filipino Truth on August 27, 1971.

Background
Nashville became infamous for launching his own newspaper, The Filipino Truth, in August 11, 1969, after getting fired from the Manila Times due to his misinformative news and feature stories, which fortunately did not get included in the publications.

The publications was criticized by the most trusted newspapers in the Philippines and the readers themselves. Several people rallied in the headquarters of The Filipino Truth newspaper during these dates: November 22-29, 1969, January 17 - December 24, 1970, and February 1 - August 25, 1971.

Assassination
On August 20, 1971, Jorge Nashville was invited to an interview for the Helen MacGregor Show, which he accepted. He appeared on the show on August 22, 1971, after several performances and interviews of several prominent people. When he got on stage, everyone begins to mock him. Helen MacGregor asked for calmness in the audience. The interview goes as follows:

Helen: "What led you to create your own newspaper, The Filipino Truth?"

Jorge: "I felt like I needed to share the truth, that has never been told before by the actual newspapers themselves."

* audience shouts at him*

Helen: "Okay, okay, calm down. All I want is calmness in the studio, we just need to have a talk to sort things out."

Helen: "Did you think that all your written stories are misleading and manipulative?"

Jorge: No. All I've been writing in that newspaper are true.

* audience shouts at him again*

During that time, one of the people in the audience shouted, "Get him out of here!", which people agreed.