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Mussolini and Petacci were executed the following afternoon, two days before Adolf Hitler's suicide. The bodies of Mussolini and Petacci were taken to Milan and left in a suburban square, the Piazzale Loreto, for a large angry crowd to insult and physically abuse. They were then hung upside down from a metal girder above a service station on ...
The former Socialist deputy Tito Zaniboni was arrested for attempting to assassinate Mussolini on November 4, 1925. In a hotel with a view unto Palazzo Chigi, where Mussolini had planned to give a balcony speech, Zaniboni set up a rifle with telescopic sights. Shortly before his target appeared, however, Zaniboni was arrested.
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963, at around 12:30pm.In the aftermath, several government agencies and panels investigated the circumstances surrounding the assassination, and all concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin.
The Kennedy assassination remains to this today the mother of all conspiracy theories, giving rise to countless books and movies arguing — take your pick — that the Mafia or the Cubans or the ...
President John F. Kennedy's assassination was an earthquake in American life. A Pew poll found it is still viewed as a top three historic event by Americans over 60 years old. "They were really ...
U.S. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis greet supporters at Dallas Love Field in Dallas, Texas in this photo taken on November 22, 1963; the day of his assassination.
Legends of Mussolini defying death during the First World War and surviving assassination attempts were circulated to give the dictator a mythical and immortal aura. [16] It was stated that Mussolini's body had been pierced by shrapnel just as Saint Sebastian had been pierced by arrows, the difference being that Mussolini had survived his ...
Sixty-one years ago, on Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in a shocking tragedy that still echoes. The JFK assassination sent the nation into mourning and shook ...