“There are many blows, to my neck, to my chest, to my eye, everywhere,” Rushdie wrote in his memoir Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, describing the attack. “I feel my legs give way, and I fall.” Henry Reese, who was moderating the Chautauqua Institution event, was also injured in the attack.

A man injured alongside author Salman Rushdie in a knife attack on a New York lecture stage told jurors that he tried to stop the assault once he realized it wasn't a prank and was left with a gash ab