Current TV has been running a series on great documentaries and they ran one the other night called "One Day In September" that was about the 1972 Olympic terrorist kidnapping and killing of the Israeli athletes. I was only 11 years old when this happened but remembered quite a bit about it and remembered us all watching this tragedy as it unfolded on live TV. The heart of the documentary is the coverage of the day of the kidnappings but the documentary is also a very thorough look at the events leading to this and the aftermath. One of the things that is striking is how ill prepared the German police were for something like this and thinking of how differently this situation would be handled today.




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