Violet Gibson

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Irish woman who shot Mussolini in Rome in 1926

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Margaret KilljoyBehind the Bastards · Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff · 40:12 · Dec 2024
…Yeah, and getting grazed. Yep. The world would have been a very different place if he had not turned his head. Yep. Violet Gibson was a thin woman, about five foot one. Her father was the Lord Chancellor of Ireland. She grew up... She's Anglo-Irish, right? And she grew up like... Oh, wow.…
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Margaret KilljoyBehind the Bastards · Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff · 39:36 · Dec 2024
…So Violet Gibson was a 49-year-old Irish woman from Dublin who lived in a convent in Rome and shot Mussolini in the face on April 7th, 1926. What's not to like? Oh, God. Ireland stays winning. Yeah, you know? I know. Yeah. Mostly, the part to not like about the story is that he turned his head at the last minute. Yeah, he didn't die. And she only grazed his…
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Margaret KilljoyBehind the Bastards · Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff · 37:54 · Dec 2024
…And if you can stay alive in jail long enough, you'll be free again. Mm-hmm. But... Someone else was directly inspired by the death of Giacomo Mattiotti. One of my favorite strange and misunderstood assassins in history. Violet Gibson. Have you heard of... I feel like there's one... I've heard the name. Yeah. If there's one assassin, people have probably he…
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