The Weekly Podcast: Presidents and the 1983 Beirut Marine Barracks Bombing

"This past Sunday, at 22 minutes after 6 Beirut time, with dawn just breaking, a truck, looking like a lot of other vehicles in the city, approached the airport on a busy, main road. There was nothing in its appearance to suggest it was any different than the trucks or cars that were normally seen on and around the airport. But this one was different. At the wheel was a young man on a suicide mission The truck carried some 2,000 pounds of explosives, but there was no way our marine guards could know this."



That was President Ronald Reagan -- addressing the nation -- October 1983.

What happened next?

And what have other presidents since Ronald Reagan said about that day in October 1983?

Find out in the latest episode of C-SPAN's "The Weekly" -- as we mark the 40th anniversary of the Beirut Marine Barracks terror bombing.

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