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Assassination (1934)

1934 · Newsreel · 3 min

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King Alexander and Louis Barthou, Shot Down in Streets of Marseilles by Revolutionists. Furious Spectators Batter Killer to Death As His Victims Die. Alexander Murdered - "Universal Newsreel brings you the First Actual motion pictures of the murder of King Alexander of Jugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Barthou" scenes of the King arriving on cruiser at Marseilles, ride through town, shots, mob beats the assassin, a Croatian.

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1934 Conspiracy? Gimme a break... · Ray Bottorff Jr · 2008-05-09

To take a 1934 assassination and tie it in to modern day events as if its part of a great conspiracy throughout time is the apex of paranoia. It is more misinformation disguised as fact. It is a lie. Period. You would think the events of the 19th Century and Turkish occupation and empire collapse, Austrian land grabs and World War I, World War II and Nazis manipulation of the ethnic groups against each other, the Cold War and the clampdowns by Tito, and civil wars that resulted after the collapse of Yugoslavia would demonstrate most clearly how murderous and fanatical just about all the…