Bedroom Hate

October 6, 1981: Egyptian president Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated in Cairo.

Anwar al-Sadat was a controversial figure in the Arab world; in 1979, he and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty, which earned both of them a Nobel Peace Prize, but contributed to Egypt’s expulsion from the Arab League until 1989. His growing unpopularity finally resulted in his assassination during a celebratory parade in Cairo, when he and eleven others were killed by grenades and gunfire. The orchestrator of the assassination, Khalid Islambouli, along with three of his conspirators (all members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad movement) were publicly executed.

Richard Nixon and Anwar Sadat in Egypt

President and Mrs. Nixon with Mr. and Mrs. Anwar Sadat at the site of the Great Pyramids at Giza.  6/12/74.