Olof Palme died 20 years ago today

http://svt.se/svt/road/Classic/shared/mediacenter/player.jsp?d=29716&a=583707

I have always believed that if you're lucky enough
To have a leader who is friendly, decent, honest and just
And not a Tory
You'd better keep him alive

So why'd they go and shoot Olof Palme
Why'd they go and gun that good man down.

Well, you didn't read about him in the English papers much
But he used to govern Sweden with a magic touch
Everybody liked him even though the liquor prices were high
And my god are they high

But all the taxation helped to pay the bills
For stuff like better work conditions and the curing of ills
It made sense, and ladies and gents that's why...

That's why I think we ought to have a drink for Olof Palme
Yes I think we ought to drink one to his name

Oh, what'd they have to go and shoot him for
Plenty of Prime Ministers deserve it much more
He was only coming home from the Cinema
And they shot him

Well, I don't know much about your politics
I only pick up stupid little bits that stick
But I wish they hadn't shot Olof Palme
Oh yes I wish they hadn't shot Olof Palme
Oh yes I wish they hadn't shot a good man down.

this is a gift palme received from north vietnam

http://i.imgur.com/lVYRO.jpg

it commemorates the 4,000th U.S. plane shot down in vietnam, and it's made from the wreckage of the plane

No major new revelations, though the finger is pointing towards Stig Engstrom, the 'Skandia Man', who died in 2000. As he's dead, the case has been closed.

a bit of a damp squib. quite an indictment on the original investigation that they were able to come to this conclusion without new evidence and by just reexamining statements taken at the time.

Do they have a motive for this Engstrom guy?

weirdly, I have been singing the Jazz Butcher song upthread for the entire last week, before this came out

Motive supposedly some combination of political disagreement and attention-seeking, leaning towards the latter.

Inevitably, there’s a counter theory that even if Engstrom pulled the trigger, he was part of a broader conspiracy.

The trailer for this seems to be unavailable on YouTube and the title is identical to another Stieg Larsson-related documentary. Nevertheless this one: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27766537/ is a pretty good, but overlong* investigation into the assassination and the subsequent outrage that researchers had over Skandia Man.

*Four episode series that easily could have been 90min. Really disliking the slo-mo pan-zoom trope all true crime series use.

where did you watch it?

oh, i see it -- HBO max? although when i clicked the link it took me to an amazon page that said "discovery+" lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I watched it as a series of downloaded mkv files from usenet because I have nfc where interesting shows are series are found of if their network is even bothering to promote it.

Four episode series that easily could have been 90min

This is so 2025.

(also so 2025 is the number of typos I'm pumping out when I'm ILX'ing on the phone. It's so embarrassing! fuck)