Hall called his adult children in a panic, urging them to come to California prepared to make peace with their father.įew private citizens have ever been more central to the state of world affairs than the man lying in that hospital bed, awaiting his children’s arrival. The doctors quickly spotted broken vertebrae, which required immediate surgery, as well as a spinal hematoma, increasing the risk of paralysis or even death. Murdoch was stretchered off the Sarissa and flown to a hospital in Los Angeles. The family prevented word from getting out on both occasions, but the incidents were concerning. Murdoch had fallen a couple of other times in recent years, once on the stairs while exiting a stage, another time on a carpet in a San Francisco hotel. Stream “The Murdochs: Empire of Influence” here.
This article is now a documentary series streaming on CNN+.
