NINOY AQUINO's Greatest Interview on FACE THE NATION | 10 March 1978 - Excerpt

THE GREATEST POLITICAL INTERVIEW IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY 🇵🇭 Philippine Senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr.'s March 10, 1978 appearance on Face the Nation remains one of the most famous and iconic television moments in Philippine political history. Running in the Interim Batasang Pambansa elections as the leader of the opposition party Lakas ng Bayan (LABAN), Aquino was permitted a live broadcast on government-controlled GTV-4 directly from his cell at Fort Bonifacio, where he was imprisoned under President Ferdinand Marcos' Martial Law regime. Panelists Ronnie Nathanielsz, Enrique Romualdez, Reynaldo Naval, and Teddy Owen grilled Aquino in what was intended to be a tightly controlled pro-government setup. Instead, Aquino used his sharp wit, eloquence, and charismatic composure to turn the platform into a scathing critique of the dictatorship and a powerful campaign speech for the opposition, turning the broadcast into the show's highest-rated episode. Long thought to be lost media, the complete, unedited broadcast was finally recovered and made available online by NinoyAquinoTV in late 2024.