Jan Olov Ferdinand Sandquist (born 6 August 1932) is a
Swedish
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journalist.
Career
Sandquist was born in
Stockholm, Sweden and was the son of Ferdinand Sandquist and Anna (née Hjort). He was a journalist at ''Mariestads-Tidningen'' in
Mariestad
Mariestad () is a locality and the seat of Mariestad Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 16,611 inhabitants in 2019. Until 1997 it was the capital of the former Skaraborg County and an episcopal see in the Church of Sweden be ...
in 1949, ''Västergötlands Annonsblad'' in 1953 and ''
Göteborgs-Tidningen
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...
'' in 1955. Sandqvist worked in the press office at
Vattenfall in 1960 and was a freelance journalist in
South America
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from 1964 to 1967. He was foreign correspondent in South America for
Sveriges Radio from 1968 to 1974.
On 29 June 1973 Sandquist and his colleague
Leonardo Henrichsen
Leonardo Henrichsen (May 29, 1940 – June 29, 1973) was an Argentine and Swedish photojournalist.
Life and times
Leonardo Henrichsen was born to Swedish civil engineer Kjell Henrichsen from Gothenburg and an English Argentine mother in Buenos ...
were in
Santiago de Chile
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to do a report on the risk of a coup d'état known as the ''
Tanquetazo
''El Tanquetazo'' or ''El Tancazo'' (both Spanish for "tank putsch") of 29 June 1973 was a failed coup attempt in Chile led by Lieutenant Colonel Roberto Souper against the government of Socialist president Salvador Allende. It is named because ...
'', a prelude to the
coup on September 11 the same year. Sandqvist and Henrichsen had together covered 16 coups in
Latin America
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and had been shot at several times. While filming the events outside
La Moneda Palace
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, Henrichsen and Sandquist were fired at and Henrichsen was fatally shot by a soldier before collapsing in the arms of Sandquist. Sandqvist later said that the tragic event in Santiago de Chile was the most shocking of his career.
Sandquist returned to Sweden in 1974 to be the host of ''
Rapport'' in
TV2, a position he stayed in until 1979. Sandquist was then foreign correspondent in
United States
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from 1979 to 1982 and employee of the ''Rapport'' editorial team from 1982 to 1983. He was district manager in
Örebro
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from 1983 to 1986 and communications manager at
SIDA from 1986.
Sandquist, good friend with ambassador
Harald Edelstam
Gustav Harald Edelstam (March 17, 1913 – April 16, 1989) was a Swedish diplomat. During World War II he earned the nickname ''Svarta nejlikan'' ("the Black Pimpernel," a reference to the Scarlet Pimpernel) for helping hundreds of Norwegian Jew ...
, has written two books about Edelstam's life together with Germán Perotti.
Personal life
Sandquist was married 1954-69 to journalist Marianne Sandberg (born 1931), the daughter of skipper Gustaf Lindgren and Hilma (née Almroth).
He remarried in 1971 to Kerstin Ahlström (born 1937), the daughter of captain Sven Ahlström and the artist Lena (née Malmberg).
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1932 births
Living people
20th-century Swedish journalists
Journalists from Stockholm