The Murder of Saudi Arabia’s King | ASSASSINS

In 1975 a young Saudi prince entered the royal palace and shot dead the king, Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

The killing was both personal and political, linked to the death of a brother, the tension between tradition and modernisation, and the introduction of television to the desert kingdom. Subscribe: https://ab.co/3yqPOZ5

Chapters
00:00 The Prince shoots the King
02:00 Hello my friend!
02:37 TV comes to Saudi Arabia
03:58 Resisting the new Saudi Arabia
05:38 Who was King Faisal?
07:16 The discovery of oil changes everything
09:00 The Assassin
11:45 King Faisal’s Assassination
12:57 Aftermath

Host: Aslan Pahari
Producer: Hannah Jose
Audio Engineer: Tegan Nicholls
Video Producers: Chloe Farrington, Tejas Bhat
Special thanks: Michael Osmond for archives research
Supervising Producer: Kyla Slaven
Executive Producers: Joel Werner, Eric George, Jessica Radburn

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