Aldo Moro was an Italian statesman and prominent member of Christian Democracy (DC) and its centre-left wing. He served as prime minister of Italy in five terms from December 1963 to June 1968 and from November 1974 to July 1976.
Giovanni Leone was an Italian politician,jurist and university professor who was President of Italy from 1971 to 1978. A founding member of Christian Democracy (DC),Leone briefly served as Prime Minister of Italy from June to December 1963 and again from June to December 1968. He was also President of the Chamber of Deputies from 1955 to 1963.
Rosa Russo Iervolino is an Italian politician.
Mario Moretti is an Italian terrorist and convicted murderer. A leading member of the Red Brigades in the late 1970s,he was one of the kidnappers of Aldo Moro,the president of Italy's largest political party Democrazia Cristiana,and several times premier. In 1978,Moretti confessed to killing Moro.
Gerardo Chiaromonte was an Italian communist politician,engineer,journalist,and writer.
Ciro Cirillo was an Italian politician and member of the Christian Democracy (DC) political party. He served as the president of the province of Naples from 1969 to 1975 and the president of Campania from 1979 until 1980. Cirillo oversaw reconstruction efforts in the aftermath of the 1980 Irpinia earthquake,which struck the region on 23 November 1980.
The Legislature IV of Italy was the 4th legislature of the Italian Republic,and lasted from 16 May 1963 until 4 June 1968. Its composition was the one resulting from the general election of 28 April 1963.
The Legislature VI of Italy was the 6th legislature of the Italian Republic,and lasted from 25 May 1972 until 4 July 1976. Its composition was the one resulting from the general election of 7 May 1972.
The Legislature VII of Italy was the 7th legislature of the Italian Republic,and lasted from 5 July 1976 until 19 June 1979. Its composition was the one resulting from the general election of 20 June 1976.
The Legislature IX of Italy was the 9th legislature of the Italian Republic,and lasted from 12 July 1983 until 1 July 1987. Its composition was the one resulting from the general election of 26 and 27 June 1983. The election was called by President Sandro Pertini one year before the previous legislature's natural end on 5 May 1983,after a crisis in the incumbent government majority (Pentapartito).
The kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro,also referred to in Italy as the Moro case,was a seminal event in Italian political history. On the morning of 16 March 1978,the day on which a new cabinet led by Giulio Andreotti was to have undergone a confidence vote in the Italian Parliament,the car of Aldo Moro,former prime minister and then president of the Christian Democracy party,was assaulted by a group of far-left terrorists known as the Red Brigades in via Fani in Rome. Firing automatic weapons,the terrorists killed Moro's bodyguards —two Carabinieri in Moro's car and three policemen in the following car —and kidnapped him. The events remain a national trauma. Ezio Mauro of La Repubblica described the events as Italy's 9/11. While Italy was not the sole European country to experience extremist terrorism,which also occurred in France,Germany,Ireland,and Spain,the murder of Moro was the apogee of Italy's Years of Lead.
The Democratic Italian Movement was a political party in Italy.
Antonio Bisaglia was an Italian politician,a member of Christian Democracy.
Gianuario (Ariuccio) Carta,was an Italian politician of the Christian Democracy political party.
Nicola Lapenta was an Italian Christian Democrat politician.
Carla Mazzuca Poggiolini is a professional journalist and Italian politician who served in both chambers of the Italian Parliament. She is the wife of Danilo Poggiolini.
The Brigate Garibaldi or Garibaldi Brigades were partisan units aligned with the Italian Communist Party active in the armed resistance against both German and Italian fascist forces during World War II.
Paolo Cabras was an Italian politician and surgeon.
Guido De Martino is a former Italian politician of the Italian Socialist Party. He is also the son of the late socialist politician Francesco De Martino and was kidnapped for 40 days in 1977 by the Camorra.
On May 9,1978,Aldo Moro,a Christian Democracy (DC) statesman who advocated for a Historic Compromise with the Italian Communist Party,(PCI),was murdered after 55 days of captivity by the Red Brigades (BR),a far-left terrorist organization. Although the courts established that the BR had acted alone,conspiracy theories related to the Moro case persist. Much of the conspiracy theories allege additional involvement,from the Italian government itself,its secret services being involved with the BR,and the Propaganda Due (P2) to the CIA and Henry Kissinger,and Mossad and the KGB.
