Violet Gibson
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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Irish woman who shot Mussolini in Rome in 1926
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentMargaret 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.…
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…
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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