The murder of Calvo Sotelo
1936 · Event
Republican police officers and leftist militiamen, avenging a murdered comrade, abduct the monarchist leader José Calvo Sotelo; a socialist gunman shoots him and his body is left at a cemetery gate. The plotters' hesitaters hesitate no longer; the rising begins four days later.
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