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Judi Lynn

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2. Violence at the funeral of Archbishop Romero

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Sat Mar 22, 2025, 02:30 AM

Mar 22

Violence at the funeral of Archbishop Romero

AP Archive
Nov 16, 2016
(30 Mar 1980) STORY

San Ssalvador. cathedral & crowd gathered in the plaza, Romero's coffin on the steps of cathedral as violence erupts, the crowd panicks, people lying down, explosions, people running for cover injured trying to get to safety, dead lying on the ground, youth w / gun & aiming. dead people on the ground, people rounded up & taken away, wounded in hospital & var shots of hysterical people, firemen near burning bldg burning cars, woman crying & walking away w / child.

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Interesting comments regarding public reaction in the U.S. to this obscene criminality Judi Lynn Mar 22 #6