Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Paris VIIe, Île-de-France, France || Hôtel Beauharnais

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Oswald considered Walker a "fascist" and the leader of a "fascist organization". Walker was sitting at a desk in his dining room when Oswald fired at him from less than 30m away. The bullet struck the wooden frame of the window which deflected its path. Walker was injured in the forearm by fragments.
(10 April 1953)

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Hôtel Beauharnais

VIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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Monday 7th of November 1938 (x) — German ambassador in Paris Ernst vom Rath is shot five times by Herschel Grynszpan aka
Vom Rath died two days later in hospital. Grynszpan was theorized to have been acquainted with vom Rath before the shooting. According to this theory vom Rath was homosexual and had met Grynszpan in the Paris bar Le Boeuf sur le Toit. Vom Rath had supposedly promised to use his influence to legalize Grynszpan's French residency. When vom Rath reneged on his promise Grynszpan went to the embassy and shot him.