1980s news clips - Sadat assassination

Title

1980s news clips - Sadat assassination

Genre

Interview; Special

TX Date

6 Oct 1981

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:00:53

Description

Eyewitness account by British Defence Attache in Cairo, Colonel Peter Rossner, of the assassination of Egyptian President, Anwar Sadat on 06/10/81. Interviewer not heard. Includes recording of the shooting. From a series of news clips from the 1980s used in a retrospective compilation at the end of the decade.

Contributors

Peter Rossner

Keywords

Deaths; Egypt; Crime; Homicide; Heads of state; Presidents; Anwar Sadat; Cairo

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