Memorial Procession
date: label: date made
content: 1976
notes: label: Description
content: Orlando Letelier, a Chilean living in exile, worked as a senior fellow at the Institue for Policy Studies in Washington, DC. He also lobbied against the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean leader. Ronnie Karpen Moffitt was a work colleague of Letelier. She ran the "Music Carryout" program which made musicial instruments available to the poor. She also campaigned for democracy in Chile. On September 21, 1976 a car bomb placed by the Chilean secret police exploded and both were killed.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: Chile
topic: label: referenced
content: Assassination
label: general subject association
content: Death
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content: Political History: Political History
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Princeton Posters
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Martin J. Petersilia
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0296.162
label: accession number
content: 1977.0296
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0296.162
objectType: label: Object Name
content: handbill
label: Object Name
content: certificate
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 11 in; x 21.59 cm x 27.94 cm