Six facts about EDSA you didn't know

MOST likely it is another case of the adage that history is written by the victors. But there are facts — now indisputable — that we didn't know, or were hidden from public knowledge, during the February 1986 People Power Revolt and even three decades later.

Perhaps because of the disillusionment with the presidency of the son of the so-called heroine of EDSA 1, the facts have been ferreted out, or have simply become clearer. The following five facts are from documents and eyewitness accounts, and not from some "anonymous" sources, which the space constraints of a newspaper column do not allow me to list.