NBC Nightly News - 1981-10-06 - Sadat assassination
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[0:03] Anoir Sadat, president of Egypt, winner
[0:05] of the Nobel Peace Prize fighter for
[0:09] >> this is NBC Nightly News with John
[0:12] Chancellor in New York.
[0:15] >> Good evening. Most of the world is in
[0:17] mourning tonight for President Sadat of
[0:19] Egypt, murdered by assassins. His death
[0:21] pleased a few, but saddened millions,
[0:24] and it is agreed by all that the world
[0:26] and the Middle East will not be the same
[0:27] again now that he is gone. It happened
[0:30] this morning in a suburb of Cairo on the
[0:32] occasion of Armed Forces Day in Egypt,
[0:34] an event watched at a military parade.
[0:37] Suddenly, the reviewing pavilion became
[0:39] a gory bloodbath. Here is Paul Miller.
[0:41] This was the anniversary of one of Anoir
[0:43] Saddat's happiest days. The day in 1973
[0:46] when his army crossed the Suez Canal and
[0:49] recaptured part of the Sinai. The parade
[0:51] commemorating the event had been going
[0:53] on for 90 minutes when six men dressed
[0:56] in Egyptian uniforms opened fire on the
[0:58] reviewing stand from the back of one of
[1:00] the trucks. Bill Foley, an Associated
[1:02] Press photographer, was next to the
[1:04] reviewing stand.
[1:05] >> And then all hell broke loose. People
[1:06] were screaming and yelling. Bullets were
[1:08] going back and forth from security men
[1:10] to the truck. Uh you could see wounded
[1:12] people all over the place. Uh I saw one
[1:15] guy in the steps of the uh reviewing
[1:17] stand close to Sedat that was he was
[1:19] obviously dead.
[1:20] >> Say nine people on the reviewing stand
[1:22] were killed, 22 wounded. President Sadat
[1:25] was hit three times. He was rushed to a
[1:27] nearby military hospital where he died
[1:29] in surgery 3 hours la