1.

Primary Resource

In his own diary, Marcos wrote on September 14, 1972 that he informed the military that he would
proceed with proclaiming Martial Law. Even the U.S. Embassy in Manila knew as early as September 17,
1972 about Marcos’ plan.

https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/featured/declaration-of-martial-law/

2. Secondary Resource

Desaparesidos' by Lualhati Bautista

- Desaparesidos deals with Martial Law’s brutal and traumatic impact on families and how the
nightmares of the past continue to reveal itself in various, unpleasant forms.

https://www.rappler.com/life-and-style/literature/books-about-dark-era-martial-law-philippines

3. Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)

“White Book” Features translations and transcription of world radio brod. The Philippine radio
seems to have been closely monitored by FBIS during the early days of Martial Law.

‘Subversive Lives: A Family Memoir of the Marcos Years’ by Susan F. Quimpo and
Nathan Gilbert Quimpo.

This is about self-reflective essays on Martial Law, where they explore personal narratives of
uprising, imprisonment, exile, disappearance, torture, and murder.