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TAUNTON DAILY GAZETTE, Massachusetts, January 30, 1948
* Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi assassinated
* The Mahatma
* Very early and great headline for display
This 12 page newspaper has a great front page banner headline:
* GANDHI SHOT TO DEATH
with small photo of Gandhi also on the front page.
This is a very early report on the same day of his assassination as most newspapers were dated the 31st with the first reports concerning his death.
As you can see, this is a great headline for display. This is by far the best I have seen as other issues I dealt with in the past were less dramatic involving his death.
Other news of the day. There is a clipping cut out on a inside page that is totally unrelated to this mentioned report. Light browning with minor spine wear, otherwise in very nice displayable condition.
wikipedia notes: On 30 January 1948, Gandhi was shot and killed while having his nightly public walk on the grounds of the Birla Bhavan (Birla House) in New Delhi. The assassin, Nathuram Godse, was a Hindu radical with links to the extremist Hindu Mahasabha, who held Gandhi responsible for weakening India by insisting upon a payment to Pakistan.[22] Godse and his co-conspirator Narayan Apte were later tried and convicted; they were executed on 15 November 1949. Gandhi's memorial (or Samādhi) at Rāj Ghāt, New Delhi, bears the epigraph "Hē Ram", (Devanagari: हे ! राम or, He Rām), which may be translated as "Oh God". These are widely believed to be Gandhi's last words after he was shot, though the veracity of this statement has been disputed.[23] Jawaharlal Nehru addressed the nation through radio:
“ Friends and comrades, the light has gone out of our lives, and there is darkness everywhere, and I do not quite know what to tell you or how to say it. Our beloved leader, Bapu as we called him, the father of the nation, is no more. Perhaps I am wrong to say that; nevertheless, we will not see him again, as we have seen him for these many years, we will not run to him for advice or seek solace from him, and that is a terrible blow, not only for me, but for millions and millions in this country.[24] ”
Gandhi's ashes were poured into urns which were sent across India for memorial services. Most were immersed at the Sangam at Allahabad on 12 February 1948 but some were secreted away.[25] In 1997, Tushar Gandhi immersed the contents of one urn, found in a bank vault and reclaimed through the courts, at the Sangam at Allahabad.[25][26] On 30 January 2008 the contents of another urn were immersed at Girgaum Chowpatty by the family after a Dubai-based businessman had sent it to a Mumbai museum.[25] Another urn has ended up in a palace of the Aga Khan in Pune[25] (where he had been imprisoned from 1942 to 1944) and another in the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine in Los Angeles.[27] The family is aware that these enshrined ashes could be misused for political purposes but does not want to have them removed because it would entail breaking the shrines.
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January 30, 1948
TAUNTON DAILY GAZETTE, Massachusetts, January 30, 1948
* Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi assassinated
* The Mahatma
* Very early and great headline for display
This 12 page newspaper has a great front page banner headline:
* GANDHI SHOT TO DEATH
with small photo of Gandhi also on the front page.
This is a very early report on the same day of his assassination as most newspapers were dated the 31st with the first reports concerning his death.
As you can see, this is a great headline for display. This is by far the best I have seen as other issues I dealt with in the past were less dramatic involving his death.
Other news of the day. There is a clipping cut out on a inside page that is totally unrelated to this mentioned report. Light browning with minor spine wear, otherwise in very nice displayable condition.
wikipedia notes: On 30 January 1948, Gandhi was shot and killed while having his nightly public walk on the grounds of the Birla Bhavan (Birla House) in New Delhi. The assassin, Nathuram Godse, was a Hindu radical with links to the extremist Hindu Mahasabha, who held Gandhi responsible for weakening India by insisting upon a payment to Pakistan.[22] Godse and his co-conspirator Narayan Apte were later tried and convicted; they were executed on 15 November 1949. Gandhi's memorial (or Samādhi) at Rāj Ghāt, New Delhi, bears the epigraph "Hē Ram", (Devanagari: हे ! राम or, He Rām), which may be translated as "Oh God". These are widely believed to be Gandhi's last words after he was shot, though the veracity of this statement has been disputed.[23] Jawaharlal Nehru addressed the nation through radio:
“ Friends and comrades, the light has gone out of our lives, and there is darkness everywhere, and I do not quite know what to tell you or how to say it. Our beloved leader, Bapu as we called him, the father of the nation, is no more. Perhaps I am wrong to say that; nevertheless, we will not see him again, as we have seen him for these many years, we will not run to him for advice or seek solace from him, and that is a terrible blow, not only for me, but for millions and millions in this country.[24] ”
Gandhi's ashes were poured into urns which were sent across India for memorial services. Most were immersed at the Sangam at Allahabad on 12 February 1948 but some were secreted away.[25] In 1997, Tushar Gandhi immersed the contents of one urn, found in a bank vault and reclaimed through the courts, at the Sangam at Allahabad.[25][26] On 30 January 2008 the contents of another urn were immersed at Girgaum Chowpatty by the family after a Dubai-based businessman had sent it to a Mumbai museum.[25] Another urn has ended up in a palace of the Aga Khan in Pune[25] (where he had been imprisoned from 1942 to 1944) and another in the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine in Los Angeles.[27] The family is aware that these enshrined ashes could be misused for political purposes but does not want to have them removed because it would entail breaking the shrines.
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