Photos That Captured the Most Chilling Moments in History

April 7, 1926

The mugshot of the Honourable Violet Gibson, an Irish woman who shot Benito Mussolini in an assassination attempt. Gibson shot the Fascist Italian leader as he walked among the crowd in the Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome. Gibson was almost lynched on the spot by an angry mob. She told interrogators that she shot Mussolini "to glorify God."

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