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词条 Leon Klinghoffer
释义

  1. Personal life

  2. Career

  3. Hijacking and shooting

  4. Aftermath

  5. Portrayals

  6. References

  7. External links

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|birth_place = New York City, New York, United States
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1985|10|8|1916|9|24}}
|death_place = Achille Lauro
|resting_place = Beth David Memorial Park
Kenilworth, New Jersey, United States
|death_cause = Shooting
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}}Leon Klinghoffer (September 24, 1916 – October 8, 1985) was a Jewish-American, disabled and wheelchair bound, who was shot, killed and thrown overboard by members of the terrorist group known as the Palestine Liberation Front who hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985.[1]

Personal life

Klinghoffer grew up on Suffolk Street in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City. Among his close friends was Jack Kirby, who went on to become a major figure in the history of comic books.[2][3]

Klinghoffer married Marilyn (born Windwehr), the daughter of a haberdasher, in September 1949. The couple had two daughters. Klinghoffer suffered two strokes later in his life that left him wheelchair-bound.[4]

He was a relative of Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer[5] and writer David Klinghoffer.[6]

Career

While he was growing up, Klinghoffer worked in his family's hardware store, Klinghoffer Supply Company. In 1942, he joined the Army Air Corps and was trained as a navigator. He flew missions in B-24 Liberator bombers with the famous 93rd Bombardment Group in the European theater of World War II.

After his honorable discharge from the army in January 1944, Klinghoffer and his brother Albert took over the store and began to invent appliances.[4] A few years later, the two brothers founded the Roto-Broil Corporation of America. Their feature item was the Roto-Broil Rotisserie Oven or Roto-Broil 400, a popular kitchen appliance in the 1950s.[7][8]

Hijacking and shooting

{{Main|Achille Lauro hijacking}}

In 1985, Klinghoffer (then 69, retired, and in a wheelchair) was on a cruise on the Achille Lauro with his wife Marilyn to celebrate their 36th wedding anniversary. On October 7, four hijackers from the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) took control of the liner off Egypt as it was sailing from Alexandria to Port Said, Egypt. Holding the passengers and crew hostage, they ordered the captain to sail to Tartus, Syria, and demanded the release of 50 Palestinians then in Israeli prisons, including the Lebanese prisoner Samir Kuntar, who had been responsible for the murder of five civilians in a terrorist attack in 1979.[9][10]

The next day, after being refused permission by the Syrian government to dock at Tartus, the hijackers singled out Klinghoffer, a Jew, for death, shooting him in the forehead and chest as he sat in his wheelchair. They then forced the ship's barber and a waiter to throw his body and wheelchair overboard. His wife, who did not witness the shooting, was told by the hijackers that he had been moved to the ship's infirmary. She learned the truth only after the hijackers left the ship at Port Said. Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Foreign Secretary Farouq Qaddumi said that perhaps the terminally ill Marilyn had killed her husband for insurance money.[11] However, the PLF leader Muhammad Abbas said in 1996 that the hijack was a mistake and apologized for killing Klinghoffer.[12]

Initially, the hijackers were granted safe passage to Tunisia, but U.S. President Ronald Reagan ordered a U.S. fighter plane to force the getaway plane to land at Naval Air Station Sigonella in Italy. After an extradition dispute, Italian authorities arrested and tried the Palestinian terrorists but let Abu Abbas fly to Yugoslavia before a U.S. warrant could be served.[13]

Klinghoffer's body was found by Syrians on October 14 or 15, and it was returned to the United States around October 20. His funeral, with 800 in attendance, was held at Temple Shaaray Tefila in New York City.[14] Klinghoffer was buried at Beth David Memorial Park in Kenilworth, New Jersey. On February 9, four months after his death, his wife (1926–1986) died of colon cancer. They were survived by two daughters, Ilsa and Lisa Klinghoffer.

Aftermath

Five days after the murder, Rabbi Morris Gordon and a group of student activists led a Jewish funeral service for Leon Klinghoffer in front of the Palestinian Liberation Organization's Washington, D.C. office to call attention to the group's role in the killing of an American military veteran.[15]

Following the death of both parents, the Klinghoffers' daughters established the Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer Memorial Foundation with the Anti-Defamation League.[1] The foundation combats terrorism through educational, political, and legal means. The foundation is funded by an undisclosed settlement paid by the PLO to the Klinghoffers to settle a lawsuit seeking damages for the PLO's role in the hijacking (Klinghoffer v. PLO, 739 F. Supp. 854 (S.D.N.Y. 1990) and Klinghoffer v. PLO, 937 F.2d 44, 50 (2d Cir. 1991).[16] This lawsuit spurred passage of the Antiterrorism Act of 1990, which made it easier for victims of terrorism to sue terrorists and collect civil damages for losses incurred.[17]

PLF leader Muhammad Zaidan, a.k.a. Abu Abbas, was freed by the Italian government in the aftermath of the Achille Lauro affair, but was continually sought by the United States government.{{citation needed|date=October 2012}} He was captured in Iraq in 2003 by U.S. forces during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and he died in custody a year later of heart disease, according to the U.S. government.[18]

The ship involved in the hijacking, the Achille Lauro, returned to cruise duty until she caught fire off the coast of Somalia on November 30, 1994. After evacuating the ship of passengers, the crew could not control the fire, and the abandoned ship sank on December 2.[19] Two people died.[19][20]

Portrayals

The hijacking was made into a television movie in 1990, The Achille Lauro Affair starring Burt Lancaster and Eva Marie Saint.

Klinghoffer was portrayed by Karl Malden in the 1989 television film The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro.

The concept of the opera The Death of Klinghoffer originated with theatre director Peter Sellars,[21] who was a major collaborator, as was choreographer Mark Morris. It was American composer John Adams' second opera, based on the events of 1985. It opened to great controversy in 1991. It featured a libretto by Alice Goodman. In the opera, Klinghoffer sings two arias, one shortly before he is killed and one after his death. The Los Angeles Opera shared in the work's commission but never presented it. The opera has since drawn controversy, including allegations by some (including Klinghoffer's two daughters) that the opera is antisemitic and glorifies terrorism. The work's creators and others have disputed these criticisms.[22] A Prix Italia-winning television version of the opera, starring Sanford Sylvan and Christopher Maltman, and directed by Penny Woolcock, was screened by United Kingdom's Channel 4 in 2003.

Klinghoffer (and his supposed travel diary) play a minor role in Philip Roth's 1993 novel Operation Shylock.

Klinghoffer is also mentioned in the graphic novel Palestine by Joe Sacco.

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.4978546|title=Klinghoffer daughters recall personal tragedy at commemoration of terror victims outside Israel|last=Berman|first=Daphna|work=Haaretz|accessdate=2018-09-13|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605141908/http://www.haaretz.com/klinghoffer-daughters-recall-personal-tragedy-at-commemoration-of-terror-victims-outside-israel-1.245471|archivedate=2011-06-05|df= }}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.kirbymuseum.org/blogs/dynamics/2010/08/31/jack-kirby-interview-part-iii/|title=Jack Kirby Interview – Part III |author= Rob Stiebel|publisher=Jack Kirby Museum}}
3. ^{{YouTube|u5xRfwvGXlw|Jack Kirby Interview (Part III)}}
4. ^Associated Press. "'Vacation of a Lifetime' Ends in Tragedy : Klinghoffer: Life of Hard Work, Giving." Los Angeles Times. 13 October 1985. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
5. ^{{cite web|agency=JTA|title=Red Hot Chili Peppers Rock Tel Aviv|url=http://www.jewishpress.com/news/red-hot-chili-peppers-rock-tel-aviv/2012/09/12/0/?print|work=The Jewish Press|accessdate=3 August 2014}}
6. ^{{cite book |title=The Lord Will Gather Me In: My Journey to Jewish Orthodoxy |last=Klinghoffer |first=David |publisher=Free Press |year=1998 |isbn=0-7432-4267-X }}
7. ^Bittman, Mark. "Bringing Back the Roto-Broil." New York Times Diner's Journal. 1 May 2008. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
8. ^Gladwell, Malcolm. Obsessives, Pioneers, and Other Varieties of Minor Genius. Little, Brown and Company, 2009.
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/foreignpolicy/terrorism/palestinian/pages/samir%20kuntar.aspx|title=Samir Kuntar|date=13 July 2008|work=Ministry of Foreign Affairs|accessdate=28 August 2015}}
10. ^{{Cite web|url=http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,960163,00.html|title=Terrorism – The Voyage of The Achille Lauro|work=Time|date=21 October 1985}}
11. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/05/world/around-the-world-plo-aide-in-a-charge-against-mrs-klinghoffer.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|title=P.L.O. Aide in a Charge Against Mrs. Klinghoffer|date=1985-12-05|work=The New York Times|accessdate=2009-07-11|page= A9}}
12. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9604/23/newbriefs/index.html|title=U.S. rejects terrorist's apology for Klinghoffer murder|work=CNN|accessdate=2010-06-04}}
13. ^Terrorist Abu Abbas dies in Iraq
14. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wODOMSqgpM0C&pg=PA50&dq=%22Temple+Shaaray+Tefila%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8ijqULyDL-Lu0gHBsIDAAg&ved=0CEMQ6AEwATgU#v=onepage&q=%22Temple%20Shaaray%20Tefila%22&f=false |title=The Achille Lauro Hijacking |author=Michael K. Bohn |publisher= Potomac Books, Inc.|year=2004 |accessdate=January 7, 2013}}
15. ^{{cite news | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1985/10/14/jewish-students-protest-plo/e14168be-3d67-4bbe-a6d3-1fb56bdff605/ | title = Jewish Students Protest PLO | last = Saperstein | first = Saundra | date = October 14, 1985 | work = The Washington Post | access-date = September 16, 2018}}
16. ^[https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/New_York_Southern_District_Court/1--85-cv-09303/Klinghoffer_et_al_v._S.N.C._Achille_Lauro_et_al/ Court Docket for Klinghoffer Case], [Docket Alarm]
17. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-113B|title=8 U.S. Code Chapter 113B – Terrorism|work=Legal Information Institute|accessdate=December 27, 2014}}
18. ^Abbas died of 'natural causes', BBC News, March 11, 2004
19. ^[https://www.seanmunger.com/2015/10/07/star-crossed-voyager-the-sad-career-of-the-ms-achille-lauro/ Star-crossed voyager: The sad career of the MS Achille Lauro]
20. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/01/world/liner-achille-lauro-burns-off-africa.html Liner Achille Lauro Burns Off Africa]
21. ^Christiansen, Rupert, "Breaking Taboos". Opera, 54(5), 543–548 (May 2003)
22. ^{{cite web|last1=Cooper|first1=Michael|title=Klinghoffer Protesters Flock to Met Opera House|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/arts/music/metropolitan-opera-forges-ahead-on-klinghoffer-in-spite-of-protests.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LargeMediaHeadlineSum&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0|work=The New York Times|accessdate=October 20, 2014}}

External links

  • CNN report by David Ensor
  • Klinghoffer Family Papers at the American Jewish Historical Society, New York
  • Mitchell Cohen, [https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/1609/going-under-with-klinghoffer/ "Going Under with Klinghoffer"], Jewish Review of Books, Spring 2015
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