Talk:José Antonio Remón Cantera

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Panamanian President President José Antonio Remón Cantera, was murdered at 7:30 p.m., January the 2nd, 1955, gunned down with a 9 mm German submachine gun, a Schmeisser. Three other men died with him that night. During the investigations an American, Martin Irving Lipstein, was arrested, but later released when lawyer Rubén O. Miró confessed to the crime on January 12th, 1955. Besides, Lipstein had an airtight alibi, since about 4-5 witnessess had seen him in places very far away from the racetrack in which Remón was killed, at about the same time. The investigations were a sham, and served only to indict Jose Ramón Guizado, Remón's Vicepresident. Guizado was involved in the drama when Miró accused him of being the mastermind behind the murder. Later, when Miró, the alleged material perpetrator of the assasination was aquitted, Guizado was finally released from jail, on December 10th, 1957. Altough the crime has never been formally solved, there is a widespread perception in Panama that the material killer was Miró.

CSTAR 17:21, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Purported eyewitness recollection

The following was placed at the bottom of the main article last year - thought I'd move here, to the Talk page, rather than just delete it. I am not vouching for its authenticity (thus the section heading), but I am not vouching against it either... just moving it off the main page.

"Viewing the seating area from the track side, President Remon and his party were seated at two of three occupied tables at the top of the center shaded seating stand. President Remon was seated at the 11:00 O'clock position, center table. The assassins approached the area from three angles. One came straight from the President's left side. A second gunman approached straight up through the seating stand. The third came from below and to the right of the President. When they all opened fire the people at the three tables were all hit and either were killed outright or wounded. Remon and his bodyguards were all killed though Remon died later at the hospital. Also among those casualties that Sunday evening was the young senior lifeguard for the Albrook AFB swimming pool. (GPHolk. 2 Jan 1955, I was there. Only eight years old but a day I wouldn't ever forget. My mother happened to love horse racing her whole life. I knew our life guard personally. The other sad note was that the occupants of the third table were not part of the President's retinue at all.)"

The paragraph was added by GPHolk, 01:31, 22 January 2019, with the edit summary: The number of gunmen in the third paragraph. It was not "unknown". There were three of them. I added a paragraph illuminating the seating arrangements and how the gunmen approached the President's party that evening as well as correcting the statement that "two other men were killed." Innocent by-standers were also killed at another of the three tables that Sunday.

Jmg38 (talk) 04:14, 31 July 2020 (UTC)