Video: 'SYND 9 5 78 ALDO MORO'S BODY FOUND IN A CAR IN ROME'

(Tuesday, May 9, 1978, 1:30 p.m. CET) — The bullet-riddled body of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was abandoned by his kidnappers today in the trunk of a red Renault 4 in via Michelangelo Caetani in the historic center of Rome.

Moro, one of Italy’s most influential politicians, was kidnapped Mar. 16, 1978, by a group of Red Brigades terrorists who killed all five of his bodyguards in a bloody street ambush on Via Fani in Rome.

Video: 'Series 2 Ep 4-The Last Days of Aldo Moro' (May 9, 1978, at 46:29)