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The History Hour: Reagan's Bombing Joke

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12/08/2017 GMT

Reagan's Bombing Joke

BBC World Service - The History Hour, Reagan's Bombing Joke

Reagan's bombing joke, the murder of Naji al Ali, and violence in pre-partition India

Ronald Reagan's joke about bombing Russia, the murder of a Palestinian cartoonist, violence in pre-partition India, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and Florence Nightingale.

Ronald Reagan's joke about bombing Russia in the 1980s, the murder of a Palestinian cartoonist in London, communal violence in India a year before partition, the man who discovered the Great Pacific Garbage patch, and Florence Nightingale, in her own words and those of people who knew her.

Photo: American president Ronald Reagan in the 1980s at his desk in the White House, Washington DC. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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