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October Crisis

NPR
Published October 28, 1995 at 11:00 PM CDT

Daniel talks with Gerard Pelletier, who was Canada's Secretary of State in during the so-called "October Crisis" of 1970. Members of the Quebec Liberation Front - the F.L.Q. - kidnapped a British diplomat and Quebec's Labor Minister. The Labor Minister, Pierre LaPorte, was later murdered.

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