CBS Evening News - 1981-05-13
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[0:06] direct from our Newsroom in Los Angeles
[0:09] this is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:11] Rather and Bob Schaffer in New
[0:15] York good evening in the crowded St
[0:18] Peter square of Vatican City an escaped
[0:21] killer from a Turkish prison today made
[0:24] good on his threat to shoot Pope John
[0:25] Paul II as many as five shots were fired
[0:29] the pope was hit at least three times
[0:31] two women bystanders were also wounded
[0:35] tonight after lengthy and apparently
[0:37] successful surgery doctors say they are
[0:39] well-founded hopes for the Pope's
[0:41] recovery the gunman identified as mammed
[0:44] Ali AA was immediately subdued in Rome
[0:49] here is Winston berett Square Vatican
[0:51] City 17 minutes past 5:00 Pope John Paul
[0:55] II in his white Jeep greets the first of
[0:59] the thousands of men women and children
[1:01] who have gathered here for his weekly
[1:03] open air audience a familiar scene a
[1:06] happy crowd a majestic setting the
[1:10] pistol shots that strike down the pope
[1:12] are fired at a distance of less than 6
[1:15] ft the Jeep races down the open space
[1:18] between the wooden barriers with Vatican
[1:20] plane Coos police racing after it two
[1:24] women were wounded the Pop's as salant
[1:26] is seized hurried away and handed over
[1:29] to the Italian Poli police this is the
[1:32] man he has told the Italian priest that
[1:34] he is a Turkish citizen 23 years old
[1:37] that he has been in Italy only seven
[1:39] days that he came here on false
[1:42] documents as a university student that
[1:44] he had tried to assassinate the Pope
[1:46] during the Pope's visit to
[1:48] Turkey and that he had been sentenced to
[1:51] death in his own country for the
[1:53] terrorist assassination