ITALY: HIJACKER'S MOTHER AND SISTER FLY IN FROM UNITED STATES

Record ID: 337152

  • Title: ITALY: HIJACKER'S MOTHER AND SISTER FLY IN FROM UNITED STATES
  • Date: 6th November 1969
  • Summary: AIRCRAFT ARRIVING ROME AIRPORT; MRS. AND MISS MINICHIELLO WITH LAWYER; PRESSMEN CROWDING AROUND; MRS. MINICHIELLO SPEAKING AT PRESS CONFERENCE. Initials GL/V/AE/PC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 21st November 1969 13:00
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  • Location: ROME, ITALY
  • Country: Italy
  • Reuters ID: LVA93T4LNKRVCY9E90WVHOAOY617
  • Story Text: THE MOTHER AND SISTER OF HIJACKER RAFFAELE MINICHIELLO ARRIVED AT ROME AIRPORT TODAY (THURSDAY), BRINGING WITH THEN A LAWYER TO LOOK INTO THE CASE OF THE 20-YEAR-OLD UNITED STATES MARINE WHO LAST WEEK BROUGHT OFF THE MOST SPECTACULAR AIRLINER HIJACK IN HISTORY.

    MARIA MINICHIELLO (50) AND HER 18-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER ANNA HAD TO FIGHT THEIR WAY THROUGH A CROWD OF JOSTLING PHOTOGRAPHERS AND REPORTERS.

    THEN THEY GAVE AN IMPROMPTU PRESS CONFERENCE, BUT MRS. MINICHIELLO BROKE DOWN AS SHE TOOK THE MICROPHONE, AND SOBBED IN NEAPOLITAN DIALECT: "MY SON, EVERYTHING IS ALL RIGHT".

    THE LAWYER, MARVIN MITCHELSON, SAID HE HAD EVIDENCE TO SHOW MINICHIELLO'S ACTION RESULTED FROM EMOTIONAL FACTORS AND HIS EXPERIENCES IN VIETNAM.

    LATER THEY MET THE MARINE'S ELDERLY FATHER LUIGI MINICHIELLO, AGED 76, WHO RETURNED SEVERAL YEARS AGO TO LIVE IN ITALY.
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