Evita: The Mystery of the Missing Body (TRIH ep 498, part 5)
1955 · Resource
This episode (the fifth and final part of a five-part series on Eva Perón) traces the bizarre afterlife of Eva 'Evita' Perón's embalmed body and its political repercussions in Argentina. Tom and Dominic recount Dr. Pedro Ara's embalming, the cultish veneration of Evita, and Juan Domingo Perón's descent into personal and political eccentricity after her death.
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Around 1955
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)