The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Update: The U.S. Army investigates
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this year, the U.S. Army launched an internal review of records related to the recovery of remains in Grenada in 1983, and efforts to locate M...
Introducing, "The Sports Moment"
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ava Wallace, sports reporter at The Washington Post, is in France to report on the Summer Games — and eat a lot of croissants. Join her through the ...
Episode 7: "A stain on our country"
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does the United States owe to Grenada about the mystery of the missing remains of Maurice Bishop, his cabinet members and supporters? In the fina...
Episode 6: "I know what I saw"
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Martine Powers began looking into the mystery of the missing remains of Maurice Bishop, his cabinet members and supporters, one of the most noted...
Episode 5: "An ugly, dirty job"
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why would the U.S. government have an interest in hiding the remains of an assassinated revolutionary leader? In this episode of “The Empty Grave of...
Episode 4: "The Army wants to look at some bodies"
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Robert Jordan was among the few people still on the campus of St. George’s University in November of 1983, in the days after the U.S. inva...
Episode 3: “We brought them to Calivigny”
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Annie Bain saw something 40 years ago that she’s been contemplating since: her husband’s ring, which was brought to her in the weeks after he died...
Episode 2: “We all had great expectations”
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Maurice Bishop was a charismatic leader who captured the imagination of many Grenadians. But the revolution he helped spark began to buckle under pres...
Episode 1: “Somebody knows”
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every 19th of October, Grenadians mark a somber anniversary: the 1983 execution of the country’s former prime minister and revolutionary leader, Mau...
Introducing “The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop”
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Grenada’s Black revolutionary leader, Maurice Bishop, was executed in a coup in 1983, along with seven others. The whereabouts of their remains are ...