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electric_blue68

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4. Woah, that's an astonishing photo...

Reply to Kid Berwyn (Reply #2)

Sun Jan 17, 2021, 11:21 PM

Jan 2021

part of the story and JFK's thoughts.

I was 8, so I didn't even hear about till years later, especially as the Civil Rights movement here gained
more coverage etc Even then it was at that point it was just Lumumba's name. It'd been even decades more to understand the effects etc of African Colonialism.

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On this day, January 17, 1961, Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2021 OP

By the CIA? Crazyleftie Jan 2021 #1

Radical only in he preferred democracy over colonialism. Kid Berwyn Jan 2021 #2

Woah, that's an astonishing photo... electric_blue68 Jan 2021 #4

Seems Dulles OKed assassination 3 days before JFK's inaugural. Kid Berwyn Jan 2021 #5

Geez... electric_blue68 Jan 2021 #6

read 'poisonwood bible' many years ago. mopinko Jan 2021 #3