50 years ago today...

Pierre Laporte's body was found in the trunk of a car. The members of the Front de libération du Québec who were prosecuted for his murder plead "responsible" at their trial. Thanks to this (joke of a) Marxist uprising, my parents were able to buy our first Montréal home for a song the following summer! Pity that the nationalism that followed kept the province's economy (and, to some extent, the entire country's) barefoot and pregnant for the next 30 years.