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Sentence of death was passed last week upon José de Leon Toral, self-confessed assassin of President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30). Sentence of 20 years imprisonment was passed on Toral's "intellectual accomplice," the nun Concepci...
Pertinent in this connection is the fact that last week the Mexican Ministry of Education put on the air* from Station XFX the notorious assassin José de León Toral, who recently shot General Alvaro Obregon, national hero and President-Elect of Mexico (TIME, July...
...already and freely said that I shot the General Obregon. All this was merely to make me tell them who I was, that they might track down my supposed accomplices. . . . Finally, I told them my name," thus ending the torture...
...shots were put into the General Obregon at point blank range. I fire 1 my first bullet squarely into the middle of his face...
Above the microphone hung a large poster picture of Alvaro Obregon, and upon the further wall a photograph of his widow, children. Everyone in the room smoked incessantly, the audience, the reporters, the nine jurymen and the judge. For what was being broadcast was the trial of José de Leon Toral and the nun, who is charged with being his "intellectual accomplice," Madre Concepci...