Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Museum
Preserved home of an assassinated leader, with the killing's door, clothes and stopped clock on display.
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This guide to the Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Museum in Bogota starts at a glass-paned door salvaged from a demolished building elsewhere in the city, the same doorway Gaitan was carried through after he was shot outside his law office. It traces the ninth of April 1948, when an out-of-work stonemason named Juan Roa Sierra approached the political leader on a Bogota street, and the strange convictions said to have driven him. Roa Sierra had visited Gaitan's office weeks earlier, apparently asking for help he never received.
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