Shown, complete with eye-piece sight and electronic firing device is mortar with which persons unknown are believed to have fired at the UN building 12/11. Police found the mortar in a Queens, N.Y., metal supply company's yard, across the East River from the UN. Cuba's Ernesto "Che" Guevara was addressing the General Assembly when the shot, which fell 100 feet short, was fired.
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Shown, complete with eye-piece sight and electronic firing device is mortar with which persons unknown are believed to have fired at the UN building 12/11. Police found the mortar in a Queens, N.Y., metal supply company's yard, across the East River from the UN. Cuba's Ernesto "Che" Guevara was addressing the General Assembly when the shot, which fell 100 feet short, was fired.

United Press International · [ca. December 1964]

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

[Information from item housing] Guns & Ammunition Misc.

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