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Graf Risked Life on Trip to China When we interviewed Joe Reilly about Jeannine Graf, he revealed that when she took a trip to China in the early nineties, she brought a number of Bibles with her for Christians who have to exist virtually underground. By
Ed Oliver “If Jeannine Graf had been arrested in China, we probably would not be talking about her right now because she would still be behind bars in that country. She is enormously courageous,” Joe Reilly told Massachusetts News. When questioned, Graf confirmed Reilly’s story about China. She said she went in 1993 to do a story about the underground, a lot of whom had been at Tiananmen Square. Some had spent twenty-five years in prison from the “People’s Revolution.” She said she smuggled into China “cases and cases” of Bibles and all kinds of banned literature. She also brought literature into the Soviet Union and passed it out on the street. She said her husband and family had no clue what she was doing in China. There are still some parts of the story she hasn’t told anybody. She also smuggled recording equipment into the country since it was illegal for her to go there as a broadcaster. She interviewed the underground. Graf reported about political torture, religious persecution, the one-child policy and the cold dead bodies she saw in the orphanages. She is not at liberty to say whom she worked for, but it was broadcast on a national basis. Graf said she did not even know the name of the person she entered China with and didn’t know the names of the guides who transported her within the country. If she were arrested, she would only be able to tell the false names she knew them by. “Understand how precious the First Amendment is. If we do not have a free marketplace of ideas, it will mean that very soon anarchists and fascists will lead us. You have to understand that. There are conservative and liberal fascists. So that’s why the show was called the ‘free marketplace of ideas,’” said Graf. Related: Jeannine Graf fired for exposing Fistgate Many upset about firing of Jeannine Graf Jeannine Graf fired because of Civil Rights Act
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