Emmanuel Bodjollé
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Emmanuel Bodjollé is a Togolese former military officer who was chairman of the nine-member Insurrection Committee that overthrew the government of President Sylvanus Olympio on 13 January 1963.
Bodjollé in 1985
Gnassingbé Eyadéma
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Gnassingbé Eyadéma was a Togolese military officer and politician who served as the third president of Togo from 1967 until his death in 2005, after which he was immediately succeeded by his son, Faur
Emmanuel Bodjollé
…of Olympio's government. The coup saw former president Olympio shot dead at the gate of the US embassy compound by Etienne Eyadéma, later known as Gnassingbé Eyadéma, a later president of Togo. Bodjollé's coup installed Nicolas Grunitzky as Togolese leader…
Eyadéma in 1983
Eyadéma in Lomé, 1975
Former Arizona State Senator Billy Davis meeting with President Eyadéma in Lomé, 1993
Monument to the 1974 presidential C-47 crash, which Eyadéma survived