Killing the Pope: John Paul II and the Last Battle of the Cold War

An immersive narrative investigation into the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in 1981, and the international dispute over who was responsible for it.

On May 13, 1981, a Turkish man named Mehmet Ali Agca shot and seriously wounded Pope John Paul II in the heart of Vatican City. Agca was put on trial and served nineteen years in an Italian prison before his return to Turkey, where he lives to this day. Why did the shooting in Saint Peter's Square take place, and how did it shape ...