Ferdinand Marcos - President of the Philippines, 1917-1989
Friday, January 30th, 2009A trained lawyer, Marcos was convicted of assassinating a political opponent of his father in 1939 and, from his condemned cell, argued his case up to the Philippine Surpreme Court, where he won an acquittal.
During the Second World War, Marcos collaborated with the Japanese who occupied the Philippines &ndash though he later claimed to have [...]
