Alan McPherson is a professor of history at Temple University and director of the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy. He is the author or editor of numerous books, most recently Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet's Terror State to Justice.

09.21.2020

• Alan McPherson

44 Years Ago Today, Chilean Socialist Orlando Letelier Was Assassinated on US Soil

On September 21, 1976, Orlando Letelier, a former minister in Salvador Allende’s socialist government in Chile who was forced into exile after the US-backed coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power, was assassinated by a car bomb in the heart of Washington, DC.