A short clip of the Olympic Stadium in Munich and the opening ceremony of the 20th olympic games of modern times.
Munich 1972 Olympics Massacre
The raw emotions are captured in this CBC Television news special about the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Games. What is clear is that members of the Palestinian group Black September slipped into the Olympic Village and took the athletes and coaches hostage. What remains murky is exactly how, at a military airport 21 hours later, a botched rescue mission ended with every hostage dead.





