Completed the following sentence: Settling in London in 1962, working as a sub-editor, Pilger joined British United Press and then Reuters on its Middle-East desk. 1963 he was recruited by the English "Daily Mirror", again as a sub-editor. ️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk> While living and working in the United States for the "Daily Mirror", on 5 June 1968 he witnessed the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles during his presidential campaign. <unk> <unk> <unk>
Bangladesh and Biafra. Nearly eighteen months after Robert Maxwell bought the "Mirror" (on 12 July 1984), Pilger was sacked by Richard Stott, the newspaper's editor, on 31 December 1985.