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November 9, 2021 | 3:15 PM

Abduction survivor Elizabeth Smart shares her story

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Airdate: Wednesday, November 10, 2021

On a late spring night in 2002, a bearded man entered a home in a Salt Lake City neighborhood by cutting open a screen on an open bedroom window. He placed a knife to the throat of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart and dragged her from her room and into a nine month nightmare.

Elizabeth Smart’s abduction kept the nation captivated until she was ultimately reunited with her family on March 12, 2003.

Today, Smart is an author, advocate and public speaker who will appear at Elizabethtown College on Thursday. She joins Smart Talk Wednesday to share her story.

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Abduction survivor Elizabeth Smart shares her story

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