Kate Delaney of America Tonight interviews the author of “Don’t Quit – Don’t Cry: …After 25,000 weekends,” Jacques Roy

The prestigious radio show “America Tonight” is broadcast on numerous stations in the US and has over 2.9 million listeners. The program combines entertainment with education and information. Experienced broadcaster Kate Delaney serves as the host.

Kate Delaney is an award-winning national media personality who has interviewed over 16,000 people in her twenty-year radio and television career. She won a Television Emmy for her special report on the AIDS pandemic in New Mexico, as well as multiple Golden Mics for a series on immigration.

Jacques Roy comes from a French-Canadian family in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. His lifetime commitment to justice and genuine independence for former southern African colonies, notably his “adopted country,” Angola, has kept him active in Canada and overseas.

In 1965, Jacques R. Roy graduated from the Northern Ontario Institute of Technology and began working as a plant engineer for Bell Telephone in Montreal. He also volunteered with CUSO at the Institute of Technology in Tanzania.

“Don’t Quit – Don’t Cry: …After 25,000 weekends” is a Canadian’s gripping life story.

On August 1967, Canada celebrates its centennial. Jacques R. Roy studies African history and Kiswahili in Montreal. With a deep sense of justice, freedom, and liberty, Jacques joins CUSO as a teacher and leaves for Dar es Salaam. Tanzania.

Jacques meets Dr. Agostinho Neto, president and founder of the MPLA (People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola). Dr. Neto needs radio links. Jacques can solve this problem. All of this will require complete secrecy.

• April 1968: Dr. Neto invites Jacques to the eastern Angolan front. He likes the radio results and sends Roy to mobilize Canadian public opinion.
• 1970: South Africa’s ANC external leaders Hani and Mbeki ask Jacques to create a spy unit. Cover: a love story with missions worthy of James Bond and Indiana Jones.
• 1974: Jacques brings Dr. Neto to Ottawa’s parliamentary committee. Dr. Neto asks for liberation for six nations from minority rule”.
• November 11, 1975: Independence. The CIA steps in.
• 1998: Unstoppable, Roy goes to Angola. Mission: Stop the civil war. The plan: Follow the blood diamonds. Results: Canada’s UN Ambassador Robert Fowler visits Africa and writes the Fowler Report. The UN imposes sanctions, and blood diamond funds dry up.
• April 2002: The civil war ends.
• 2008: Veterans of Angola Liberation (LIVEGA) induct Jacques Roy, card number 00A.

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