The Fox News journalist spoke to THR about his new memoir, 'Saved,' which recounts the attack and the dramatic effort to leave the country.
The story is at times something out of a spy novel, with Hall and his team breaking Kyiv’s curfew to catch a train carrying Poland’s Prime Minister, a train which would ultimately get him out of the country; and the Secretary of Defense signing authorization papers to bring Hall to a U.S. military hospital while flying on a Boeing E-4B across the ocean.
One part that stuck out to me was a scene set in the hotel the Intercontinental in Kiev, when [Fox News correspondent] Trey [Yingst] and the other journalists there were trying to figure out what happened. What was the process like for you to essentially report out what was happening on the other side while you were grappling with the unbelievable attack that it just happened?
So all of those came together and I just found it to be incredibly rewarding. And it’s something that I could never replace, there was nothing else I did that really gave me as much passion as covering conflict and being there to see it. When Ukraine broke out I knew I needed to be there. I needed to be there, I needed to be telling that story and the story of the people caught up in it.
You know, many pieces of that puzzle fell into place just at the right time. Like if it had been a day on either side, a lot of those teams wouldn’t have been there. So call that fate. But everything fell into place so perfectly from the person who found me and saved me, to the doctors who just happened to be at the hospital and managed to save me that first night.
That’s something you wrote in the book. I think you wrote about the “duality” that you cultivated, “the Ben who went away to cover wars and the Ben who came back to London in search of a normal way to live. The challenge was always going to be bringing those two Bens together into one functional person.” Can you can you explain that to me?
When I was writing the book and looking ahead to the future, I wanted to be open to a whole lot of ideas, and there are lots of things I want to do that aren’t connected to journalism. I feel really strongly that I was in many ways saved by the people who, who came out for me, you know, the real positive community. I want to make sure that I can help in as many ways as I can, talking to people who have been injured, helping those doctors or those other physios who help others.
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