Achille Lauro hijackers kill American passenger, throw body overboard 30 years ago this hour (Oct 8 1985)

October 8, 20151980sadmin

Video: 'Leon Klinghoffer Terrorist Murder 1985'

(Tuesday, October 8, 1985, at about 3:00 p.m. EEST) — The hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro today killed passenger Leon Klinghoffer, a retired, wheelchair-bound Jewish American businessman, shooting him in the forehead and chest, then forcing the ship’s barber and a waiter to throw his body and wheelchair overboard.

Video: 'Leon Klinghoffer Terrorist Murder 1985'

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