Category: The Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Title: BODY FOUND IN CAR--The body of Pierre Laporte, Quebec labor minister, was found in the trunk of this car at St. Hubert Airport south of Montreal Saturday night. Mr. Laporte had been kidnapped Oct. 10 from his Montreal home and held by members of Front de Libération du Québec.
Date: 1970-10-18
Medium: gelatin silver print with editing marks
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: NYT.2016.0194.0014

Inscriptions:
Recto, [printed in gsp] MONTREAL OUT [underscored] (MTL 1) MONTREAL, Oct. 18--BODY FOUND IN CAR--The body / of Pierre Laporte, [circled] Quebec labor minister, was found in the trunk / of this car at St. Hubert Airport south of Montreal Saturday night. / Mr. Laporte had been kidnapped Oct. 10 from his Montreal home and / held by members of Front de Liberation du Quebec. (CP Wirephoto) / 1970 (Star) hdh225a; Verso, handwritten: 67-501 [circled]; stamped: RETURN TO TIMES / DATE RECEIVED / OCT 20 1970 / IN PICTURE FILES / PHOTO LIBRARYRecto, [imprimé en gsp] MONTRÉAL OUT [souligné] (MTL 1) MONTRÉAL, 18 octobre - LE CORPS DE Pierre Laporte, [encerclé] ministre du Travail du Québec, a été retrouvé dans le coffre / de cette voiture à l'aéroport de Saint-Hubert, au sud de Montréal, samedi soir. / M. Laporte avait été enlevé le 10 octobre à son domicile de Montréal et détenu par des membres du Front de libération du Québec. (CP Wirephoto) / 1970 (Star) hdh225a ; Verso, écrit à la main : 67-501 [encerclé] ; estampillé : RETOUR À L'HEURE / DATE DE RÉCEPTION / 20 OCT. 1970 / IN PICTURE FILES / PHOTOTHÈQUE

Credit Line: The Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection, The Image Centre.