31 JANUARY 1948: SET OF 2 FULL NEWSPAPERS ON MAHATMA GANDHI‘S ASSASSINATION

a) Full newspaper of Chicago: Chicago Daily Tribune [European Edition] of Saturday, 31 January 1948, Volume CVII. No. 21 with 40 pages
23.5 x 16.75 in (59.69 x 42.5 cm)

The Chicago Daily Tribune had the banner headline, "GANDHI KILLED; INDIA RIOTS", with a strapline, "15 Killed in Bombay; Police Fire on Stabbing Crowd"

b) Full newspaper of Paris: New York Herald Tribune of Saturday, 31 January 1948, 61st year, no. 20, 220 with 8 pages
23.5 x 16.75 in (59.69 x 42.5 cm)

New York Herald Tribune had the banner headline, "Gandhi Is Assassinated by Hindu; Assembly Votes Gold Trading Bill"

76 years ago on 31 January 1948, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known reverently as Mahatma Gandhi, was assassinated.

A day after his assassination, Mahatma Gandhi featured across the front page of practically every major newspaper of the world as a statement of loss that not only India, but the world as a whole, would find hard to recover from. Gandhi did not just represent India’s nationalist pride, but was clearly a world phenomenon, as is evident from the urgency with which newspapers across the globe reported his death. Gandhi's murder caused widespread grief and shocked the world, as is evident in historic records of the fateful day.

Gandhi was attacked while he was on his way to attend a prayer meeting at Birla House. His killers Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte were convicted and hanged to death on 15 November, 1949.

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