Ninoy Aquino's Life In The U.S. Shown In Howie Severino's New Docu In 'I-Witness'

NINOY AQUINO never became president of our country, but his wife Cory and his son Noynoy both achieved what he failed to do. It’s Ninoy’s death 30 years ago this year that changed the course of Philippine history which was under Marcos’ dictatorial rule for two decades. Ninoy's political rise, imprisonment, and death are all well-known to Filipinos. But not the three quiet, vital years he spent in Boston with his family just before he died. Now, Howie Severino and his team travel to Boston to produce a documentary on the Ninoy that few Filipinos know, the transformed family man who loved mahjong and doted on his youngest daughter Kris.

It was a near-perfect, happy time for the Aquinos, but not enough to prevent Ninoy from returning home, where he was met by an assassin. What could have led to that fateful decision? Howie visits the old Aquino home in a Boston suburb and tracks down Ninoy's best friends, who remember a man who told green jokes but also his shy only son Noynoy who appeared out of place in America.

It's a personal journey for Howie himself, who went to college in Boston in those same years and as a homesick Pinoy, would visit Ninoy to listen to his stories. Kris Aquino, the so-called "female Ninoy," shares her memories of that time too as a child who loved America but who always knew that her father would go home to an uncertain fate. Join Howie Severino this Monday night as he uncovers the unknown Ninoy in this special documentary titled “1983” in “I-Witness” right after Saksi on GMA7.