{"id":27284,"date":"2019-11-19T14:06:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T19:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=27284"},"modified":"2019-11-19T14:07:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T19:07:10","slug":"the-murder-of-olof-palme-remains-unsolved-three-decades-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2019\/11\/19\/the-murder-of-olof-palme-remains-unsolved-three-decades-later\/","title":{"rendered":"The Murder of Olof Palme Remains Unsolved, Three Decades Later"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Feb. 28, <\/a>1986, then-Prime Minister of Sweden, Olof Palme and his wife Lizbet attended the cinema late one night after deciding to give his bodyguards the night off. Upon exiting the cinema an armed man shot two rounds behind him hitting Palme in the back. The second bullet grazed Lizet and the shooter fled 89 steps next to the central street of Stockholm. Palme was rushed to Stockholm Sabbatsberg hospital where he passed at midnight on March 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A constant voice of peace for the Swedish people was lost that night and to this day, no one has solved the mystery of who murdered Palme and why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olof Palme was born in Sweden on Jan. 30, 1927 and started his political career in 1953 as the personal secretary of then-Prime Minister Tage Erlander. In 1967 he became the next Prime Minister after Erlander resigned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Palme was known as a consistent voice of peace, democracy and economic equality for the Scandinavian country of Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jennette Horwitz, an English language and literature professor at Wright State University, lived in Sweden at the time of his murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was 15 years old,\u201d Horwitz said. \u201cI had been in northern Sweden skiing for a week as we had our week of school winter\/sports break. We were riding the bus back when we found out on the radio what had happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeing only 15, it was still shocking,\u201d Horwitz continued. \u201cSweden was not known for violence then, it was a very peaceful country where things like that did not happen. That said, it was very, very shocking to us kids that something like that happened.\u201d    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A plaque in Sweden memorializing Palme. (Flickr)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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