"September 5" is a new movie from our sister company, Paramount, about television coverage of the notorious Palestinian terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics. We have thoughts about that day from Sean McManus, who, until recently, led CBS Sports and, before that, CBS News. But b...
TOKYO (Reuters) -Israeli Olympic team members killed by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich Olympics were remembered during the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony on Friday with a moment of silence, the first time in 49 years. The move was welcomed by relative...
Wreaths are placed during a ceremony, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the attack on the Israeli team at the 1972 Munich Olympics in which eleven Israelis and a German policeman were killedtakes place near the Olympic village in Munich, Germany, September 5, 2022 (photo credit: REUTERS/LEON...
Relive the moments that went down in history at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Access official videos, results, galleries, sport and athletes.
Ladany said that while before the attack the Olympics was purely “a sports meeting of joy and competition,” today no such event is held without strict security. “Since then,” he said, “the world has changed.” West Germany was criticized not only for botching the rescue but also f...
, along with his young niece, in retaliation for the group's attack on Lod airport in Tel Aviv. Two other Palestinian intellectuals were maimed by letter bombs. The eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth reciprocal blood-letting recounted in Munich was well under way before the Munich Olympics...
The attack, now known as theMunich Massacre, was a travesty.West Germany, hosting the Olympics for the first time since the infamous Berlin Games of 1936 in the shadow of Hitler’s ascending Nazism, had wanted to make a good impression on the world. All eyes were on Munich for the 1972...
The shooting took place on the anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympics terrorist attack, in which 11 Israeli athletes were killed.■ Photo taken on Sept. 5, 2024 shows a police cordon near the Israeli Consulate General in Munich, Germany. An armed man was shot dead by police near the Israe...
This riveting movie chronicles the terrorist attacks during the 1972 Munich Olympics through the eyes of the ABC Sports team covering the event on television. Black September, a Palestinian terrorist group, infiltrated the Olympic Village and kidnapped several Israeli athletes. “There’s a ...