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An assassination attempt against Imelda Marcos occurred on December 7, 1972, when an assailant named Carlito Dimahilig tried to stab her on live television with a bolo knife in Nayong Pilipino but was shot by the police. [102] [103] Congressman Jose Aspiras and Linda Amor Robles were also injured in trying to subdue the attacker. [102]
United States v. Marcos (officially the United States of America v.Imelda Romuáldez Marcos, Adnan Khashoggi) was a 1990 federal trial involving the former First Lady of the Philippines and the first governor of Metro Manila, Imelda Marcos, who was indicted on charges of fraud, racketeering, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice. [1]
Carlito Dimahilig attacks Imelda Marcos with a bolo in a failed assassination attempt during an event for her National Beautification and Cleanliness campaign. Congressman Jose D. Aspiras and beautification campaign administrator Linda Amor Robles also suffer lacerations. December 31
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine court found former first lady Imelda Marcos guilty of graft and ordered her arrest Friday in a rare conviction among many corruption cases that she plans ...
Rolando Galman, suspect in the assassination of Benigno Aquino Jr. Rogelio Moreno (confirmed) AVSECOM members (accomplices) Killed by soldiers immediately after Aquino's assassination and accused by the Marcos regime of being a hitman for the New People's Army, but was posthumously acquitted as a fall guy. [42] See Assassination of Ninoy Aquino.
Imelda Marcos famously said she wanted the words “Here Lies Love” engraved on her tombstone. Good for her. Her many enemies would argue that the former first lady of the Philippines ...
The day after the assassination, Marcos and General Prospero Olivas preside over the initial investigation of Aquino's assassination, denying any wrongdoing. O'Neill covers Aquino's funeral and calls it as "larger than that of Gandhi 's" and decides to cover the unfolding political crisis in the country.
Arielle Jacobs plays Imelda, Jose Llana is Marcos and Conrad Ricamora, the best of the trio, is the late Sen. Ninoy Aquino, the Marcos disrupter who was shot in the head after returning to the ...