• Served as Mayor, Vice-Governor, Governor, (Tarlac) • Senator of the Philippines (1967—1972)

Wednesday is the 30th anniversary of former senator Benigno Aquino Jr’s murder at the Manila International Airport’s tarmac. What do you remember?

“IF THEY kill me, they’re out in two years.” Exiled Benigno Aquino Jr. offered that stark “math” in Boston to friends spooked by his plan to fly to Manila in a bid to meet the ailing dictator Ferdinand Marcos

MANILA, Philippines ? His favorite song, ?The Impossible Dream,? summed up Benigno ?Ninoy? Aquino Jr.?s uncompromising stance against dictatorship: ?To fight the unbeatable foe ... To right the unrightable wrong.?

Whenever President Ferdinand Marcos was in the mood, he would gather his loyal generals in his study in Malacañang for an hour or so of leisurely discourse on issues that mattered most to him and his martial law administration

CALIFORNIA, United States?Many years ago, while I was waiting in line to see the Agatha Christie whodunit, Murder on the Orient Express, a moviegoer who was exiting the theater screamed out ?They all did it!? spoiling the suspense.

On Aug. 21, 1983, moments after alighting from the China Airlines plane that brought him back to the Philippines after a three-year exile in the United States, opposition leader Benigno ?Ninoy? Aquino Jr. was gunned down on the tarmac of the Manila International Airport

MANILA, Philippines?On August 21, 1983, moments after alighting from the China Airlines plane that brought him back to the Philippines after a three-year exile in the United States

When Msgr. Roberto Olaguer was first assigned as chaplain at the New Bilibid Prison in 1990, he had one ?mission? from Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin: Find the truth about the Aquino assassination from the 16 soldiers convicted of the crime.

If you want to know the triggerman, follow the relationships. If you want to know the mastermind, follow the money.

The government officially celebrated the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Benigno Aquino Jr. on Monday with the unveiling of the bronze bust of Aquino at the recently opened Terminal 3 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.

MANILA, Philippines?Ahead of the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Philippine opposition leader Benigno ?Ninoy? Aquino Jr. on Aug. 21, 1983

MANILA, Philippines -- Four days ago, the entire nation went into an agonizing reappraisal of its gory fratricidal conflicts during the past 36 years by recalling two

MANILA, Philippines -- The family of assassinated opposition leader Benigno 'Ninoy' Aquino Jr. was divided Tuesday on whether Filipinos should now put

MANILA, Philippines -- Rusting away in a musty chamber of a courthouse is the gun believed to have triggered the upheaval that altered Philippine history

THE DRIVER of the van that carried the soldiers of the Aviation Security Command (Avsecom) to the airport where they took Benigno 'Ninoy' Aquino Jr.