• Leon Klinghoffer (September 24, 1916 – October 8, 1985) was an American man who was shot, killed and thrown overboard from the cruise ship Achille Lauro...
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    Ashdod, Israel. A 69-year-old Jewish American man in a wheelchair, Leon Klinghoffer, was murdered by the hijackers and thrown overboard. The hijacking...
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    threatened to kill all the passengers, starting with U.S. citizens. Leon Klinghoffer, a Jewish and paraplegic U.S. citizen, was killed and thrown overboard...
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    murder of a 69-year-old Jewish-American wheelchair-using passenger, Leon Klinghoffer. The concept of the opera originated with theatre director Peter Sellars...
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  • Angeles, California, and former guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers Leon Klinghoffer (1916–1985), disabled American who was murdered and thrown overboard...
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  • and film producer Leon Klinghoffer (1916–1985), a Jewish-American man who was murdered Leon Koudelak (born 1961), Czech guitarist Leon Krier (born 1946)...
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    John Adams (composer) (category Pupils of Leon Kirchner)
    opera The Death of Klinghoffer (1991) was based on the Palestinian Liberation Front's 1985 hijacking and murder of Leon Klinghoffer and incited considerable...
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  • hostage. Among them are Mr. Leon Klinghoffer (Burt Lancaster), a disabled Jewish-American, and his wife Marilyn Klinghoffer, who is hiding from her husband...
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  • terrorist incident that took the life of Leon Klinghoffer. Karl Malden as Leon Klinghoffer Lee Grant as Marilyn Klinghoffer E. G. Marshall as Stanley "Stan" Kubacki...
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    became the long-running series Unsolved Mysteries. Malden portrayed Leon Klinghoffer in the 1989 TV movie The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro, the only person...
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