firsthand account

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The couple’s oldest son, Jake, last week published an emotional firsthand account of the moment he learned of his parents’ deaths.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

A firsthand account by an escaped slave who became a famous abolitionist and orator, this memoir reframed slavery as coerced labor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

But Pence can offer a firsthand account of at least some one-on-one conversations with Trump.

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2023

By the time that Seabrook published his "firsthand account of voodoo in Haiti," the othering of Haiti, and its Afrocentric vodou religion in particular, had been long underway.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2023

Edward was never surrounded by crowds of curious by-standers eager for his firsthand account.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer