http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110523/ap_ ... de_autopsy
This is one of the great questions of history. Did Allende commit suicide? (I wish we had poll feature going) (he died of a gun shot)
Chime in with your prediction and reasoning or not.
I predict that he didn't commit suicide.
(1) Catholic country
(2) Personality of a political leader
(3) Democratically elected, had not lost that mandate
(4) Death occurred in adrenalin fast paced environment, rather than in a situation of drawn out longterm hopelessness.
However there's strong reason to believe he did kill himself:
So does Danivon want to take an easy bet on this?
This is one of the great questions of history. Did Allende commit suicide? (I wish we had poll feature going) (he died of a gun shot)
Chime in with your prediction and reasoning or not.
I predict that he didn't commit suicide.
(1) Catholic country
(2) Personality of a political leader
(3) Democratically elected, had not lost that mandate
(4) Death occurred in adrenalin fast paced environment, rather than in a situation of drawn out longterm hopelessness.
However there's strong reason to believe he did kill himself:
"Our conviction is that President Allende took the decision to die, as an act of political coherence in defense of the mandate that was given him by the people," said Sen. Isabel Allende, who gently laid her hand on the casket, draped with a Chilean flag, during the somber procedure. She didn't take any questions.
The Allende family has trusted the version told by the only apparent eyewitness, Dr. Patricio Guijon, who was one of Allende's doctors and shared his final moments on Sept. 11, 1973, as the presidential palace was under furious attack. Allende had ordered his comrades to surrender, but instead of following them out, went alone into the Hall of Independence on the second floor.
Guijon said he too stepped away from the rest, to grab his gas mask, and happened to look into the hall at the moment Allende pulled the trigger of an AK-47.
"What I saw was the body rising up from the impact of the assault weapon, which was a weapon of war, and I ran there and saw there was nothing I could do," Guijon told The Associated Press in an interview last week.
So does Danivon want to take an easy bet on this?