Irish Woman Violet Gibson Who Shot Mussolini in the Face

On April 7, 1926, 50-year-old Dublin woman Violet Gibson shot Benito Mussolini, Italy’s fascist leader, in the face. Violet Gibson’s prison ID card made shortly after her 1926 arrest. Historians now speculated how different the world may have been if she had succeeded. But how had Violet Gibson’s life gone from the well-to-do upbringing of … Read more