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Bob Marley Survives Assassination Attempt

Nancy Burke remembers the night when gunmen tried to kill her friend, the world's best-known reggae star Bob Marley, at his Jamaica home in December 1976.

In December 1976 gunmen tried to kill the most famous reggae artist of all time, Bob Marley, at his home in Kingston, Jamaica. Marley's friend and neighbour, Nancy Burke, was at the singer's house that night. She's been telling Mike Lanchin about life in the reggae star's entourage, and how she hid in a back room when the unidentified gunmen broke in.

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Wed 1 Mar 2017 12:04
大象传媒 Radio 4

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