after months of bloodletting taylor and his npfl gained the upper hand.the fall of 1990, taylor had seized most of liberia, with the exception of monrovia. the capital was still up for grabs-- contested terrain. and president doe became the most prominent casualty. he was captured and stripped to his underwear by a former taylor commander, the warlord prince johnson. (screaming) elizabeth blunt was trying to set up an interview when gunfire erupted. >> i was stuck in the press officer's office with a gun battle going on all around me. while i'd been lying there with my eyes shut, i heard the president's voice, which must've been when they were taking him away. and i heard what i was sure was the president's voice going, "please, i beg you, i beg you," and i knew his voice. he was bleeding very heavily. i think he probably just died from loss of blood, but they were trying to interrogate him. he died sometime during the night. >> it's hard to process, sometimes. certainly, evil was taking reign in liberia. when evil is given opportunity to reign freely, th