The turbulent life and lonely death of Dubliner Violet Gibson who almost shot Italian dictator Mussolini dead

The turbulent life and lonely death of Dubliner Violet Gibson who almost shot Italian dictator Mussolini dead

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One hundred years ago, on April 7, 1926, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was walking through adoring crowds in the Piazza del Campidoglio in central Rome when a dainty woman in a black veil attempted to change the course of history by shooting him.