LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

1980s news clips - Pope shot in Rome

Genre

Interview; Vox pop

TX Date

13 May 1981

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:00:37

Description

Interview with two American eyewitnesses (not identified) on the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in Rome (13/05/81). Interviewer not heard. Italian authorities later identified Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish terrorist and escaped murderer, as the man who fired four rounds from a 9-millimeter Browning automatic pistol, hitting the Pope at least three times.From a series of news clips from the 1980s used in a retrospective compilation at the end of the decade.

Contributors

None Identified

Keywords

Popes; Pope John Paul II; Crime; Homicide; Murderers; Italy; Rome; Mehmet Ali Agca

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