This is a podcast about some of the most spectacular terrorist attacks in history. In this podcast, I tell the stories of the terrorists, their victims and the consequences for the survivors and society. About people who will sacrifice their own lives or the lives of others for a political, economic, religious or social goal. Who was behind it, who did they want to hit, and why. My name is Natasja, and I am a journalist with a Master's in Middle Eastern Studies. Unfortunately, I have experienced terror in my life several times. The massacre in Utøya in Norway happened half an hour's drive from where some of my immediate family lives. A good friend of mine was only a meter away from one of the suicide bombers on the London Underground in 2005. He miraculously escaped with two burst eardrums. Finally, I worked in Afghanistan some time ago, where a major terrorist attack on a local cafe claimed the lives of 21 people. Among other things, the owner, who had served me a layer cake on my birthday the year before. Fortunately, I have never been in the middle of a terrorist attack myself...
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episode 9: The assassination of Italy's John F. Kennedy
On Via Fani, a downward-sloping hill in northern Rome, Italy, four small, angular Fiat cars were parked. In the cars sat men and women wearing crew uniforms belonging to the staff of the Italian airline Alitalia. It was 08:45 on the morning of March 16, 1978. The sun was shining and the weather forecast predicted a pleasant day with temperatures up to 16 degrees. A few minutes to nine, a blue and larger and more exclusive edition Fiat approached the Via Mario Fani road. In it sat one of Italy's most prominent politicians, the 62-year-old law professor Aldo Moro, who was chairman of the Christian Democrats and former prime minister of Italy. Then it suddenly went fast. One of the waiting cars drove in front of Aldo Moro's Fiat and cut off the road in front of it, while two of the other cars blocked the road behind the bodyguards' car. Both cars were trapped, and four men jumped out from bushes along the road with machine guns in their hands. 91 bullets were fired in seconds, hitting all the bodyguards. Aldo Moro was forced unharmed into the Fiat 132 which stopped next to his own and drove away. Four dead and one mortally wounded bodyguard were left behind.
Sources used in this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA5TGFME_pg
https://www.berlingske.dk/kultur/hvem-graed-egentlig-da-aldo-moro-blev-myrdet
https://www.information.dk/udland/2008/05/sandheden-aldrig-kom-frem
https://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/udland/55-dage-der-rystede-italien
https://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/udland/55-dage-der-rystede-italien
https://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/udland/55-dage-der-rystede-italien
https://www.berlingske.dk/kultur/hvem-graed-egentlig-da-aldo-moro-blev-myrdet
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/01/25/world/moro-s-killers-among-32-jailed-for-life-in-italy.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1581425/US-envoy-admits-role-in-Aldo-Moro-killing.html
https://www.europeana.eu/en/blog/the-kidnapping-and-killing-of-aldo-moro
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/17/aldo-moro-murder-mystery-italy
Paul Ginsborg, A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics 1943–1988, (London: Penguin, 1990) p.361
R. Lumley, States of Emergency: Cultures of Revolt in Italy from 1968 to 1978, (London: Verso, 1990) p.282.
https://mondediplo.com/2011/10/11terrorists
https://jacobin.com/2018/05/red-brigades-aldo-moro-pci-historic-compromise
https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/the-kidnapping-and-assassination-of-aldo-moro.html
Music used in this episode:
Dramatic Suspense: https://pixabay.com/music/suspense-dramatic-suspense-116798/ by https://pixabay.com/users/ashot-danielyan-composer-27049680/
Anuch – Our champion - Music from #Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/anuch/our-champion
bella ciao Guitar: AhmadMousavipour: https://pixabay.com/music/solo-guitar-bella-ciao-guitar-ahmadmousavipour-11996/
Sweet sorrow by Albert Behar: https://uppbeat.io/track/albert-behar/sweet-sorrow
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