At the same time, Ronni Moffitt , a u. S. Citizen, was killed. On embassy happened road and washington, d. C. On that morning, september 21, 1976, Orlando Letelier was an employee of a think tank in washington called the institute of policy studies. He was driving his car to work. E lived in that direction he came down embassy row, massachusetts avenue, lined with several embassies. Runnincar with him were and her moffitt husband michael. They turned the corner here and unbeknownst to them, following them was a great sit in. Were tworeat sedan cubanamericans who had helped put a bomb underneath the driver the drivers seat in the chevelle Orlando Letelier was driving. The order was given by the secret police of chile, ruled at the time by pinochet, a dictator who did not like the political ,ctivity that Orlando Letelier a former ambassador to the United States from chile, was taking on in washington, so we know now that it was the dictator who ordered the secret police to assassinate hi
The assassination at all, even though it was his government that did it, but later on, he trumpeted the version of events from the pinochet regime, which is that theres no way his government could have done this. It must have been some leftist guerrillas trying to pin it on pinochet. It is important the residence is there because the residence it self now has a bust of Orlando Letelier to try to remember him also. Around the circle, we have these two memorials to this one man and of course, to Ronni Moffitt. Sheridan circle will be marked forever by this one event. Hello, everyone. We can hear everyone. Welcome to busboys and poets. My name is olivia. I am the book Events Coordinator and im very excited to welcome Alan Mcpherson for his book ghosts of Sheridan Circle. It was an event that i was not aware of, honestly, and im very excited to read about it in this book, and im excited for alan to speak about it and have conversations to speak about it. Here at busboys, we like to have co
Well get out there soon and celebrate. By the way, i like the last days of summer thing. Rachel im not ready. Its not time. I dont like it when people count things down too early. Rachel i agree. Its already over before its over. Its not even august 10. Rachel the weather is gorgeous. Summer is at least through august. Friends in t tennessee are going back to school on wednesday. The south starts earlier. Rachel why . Because they get out earlier. Ours is mid to late august. Football started. Midwest is sometimes early september. The south gets out in the middle of may. Thats how we are. Rachel i dont think school should start until after labor day. I agree with that in principle. It aint the case. The northeast, they Start Talking labor day and they go to tend of june sometimes to the end of june sometimes. Summer is not over in august. August is summer. Think of it as the beginning of football season. So thats all joy. Rachel ill tell you what else i joyful. Peter boone. Pete n son t
fire roughly 70 rounds into the crowd. a recording captured the barrage of gunfire, and i want to warn you, it s disturbing. the very first thing you ll hear are the shots, and then you ll see all the innocent people running for their lives. [ gunshots ] it s just mayhem. just mayhem. officers arrested the suspect yeah, the suspected gunman, about six hours after the rampage. highland park authorities also revealed how he was able to go on the run using a disguise. during the attack, crimo was dressed in women s clothing, and investigators do believe he did this to conceal his facial tattoos and his identity and help him during the escape with the other people who were fleeing the chaos. cnn security correspondent josh campbell is in highland park for us. josh, we ve seen this horror movie so many times before. it s sickening to everyone on the ground, to all of us. is there any information yet on what was wrong with this 21-year-old suspect? why he would do this? r
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