Olof Palme
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Sven Olof Joachim Palme was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986. Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until
Palme in 1984
Palme as a student in 1944
Palme and his wife Lisbeth on their honeymoon in 1956
Palme in 1957
Assassination of Olof Palme
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On 28 February 1986, at 23:21 CET, Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, was fatally wounded by a single gunshot while walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbeth Palme on the central Stockholm s
Olof Palme
…and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986. Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until his assassination in 1986. A longtime protégé of Prime Minister Tage Erlander, he became Prime Minister of Sweden and Chairman of the Social Democratic Party in 1969…
Flowers left at the site of the assassination on the following day
Olof Palme in the early 1970s
Grand cinema.
Crossing of Sveavägen–Tunnelgatan where Palme was shot.