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The timeline says "Benigno Aquino, Jr. and Rolando Galman are assassinated". Actually Benigno Aquino was assassinated, but the weight of evidence is that Galman was not assassinated but shot by bodyguards — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.197.15.138 (talk) 03:26, 29 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Murder weapon

This article has long indicated that the murder weapon used in the Aquino assassination was a ".357 revolver": See infobox (unsourced) and Murder weapon subsection "According to contemporary news reports, the alleged murder weapon was a Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolver" (unsourced).

Maj. Gen. Prospero Olivas did claim that the murder weapon retrieved from the suspect ("fall guy" Rolando Galman) was a Magnum .357. However, subsequent news reports noted how the Agrava fact-finding board report showed that Olivas was "caught red-handed trying to mislead the Agrava Board about the firearm that was used by the gunman" (Mindanews/Vera Files), and that forensic evidence as indicated by 2 chemistry reports in fact show that the murder weapon was "either a .38 or a .45 caliber pistol". I feel this article should be edited to reflect this. I could be missing something so please feel free to add to this discussion.

References

https://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2022/08/how-marcos-suppressed-the-truth-behind-ninoy-aquinos-assassination/ https://verafiles.org/articles/a-question-that-refuses-to-die-who-had-ninoy-aquino-killed

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/24/world/panel-on-slaying-of-aquino-finds-a-military-plot.html https://apnews.com/article/df8d6564efaabc21a01948bb0c13d28d

-- Crisantom (talk) 04:05, 7 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I've added the following paragraph to the article to reflect the above discussion on the weapon that killed Aquino.

Aquino was killed using a .38 or .45 caliber gun. Defendants lied to investigators and the public about the murder weapon. According to a Vera Files report, General Prospero Olivas promoted the theory that a Magnum .357 taken from Galman was used in Aquino's assassination. However, Olivas excluded from his accounts chemistry report C-83-1136, which showed that fragments extracted from Aquino were from a .38 caliber or .45 caliber revolver.^[1] - Crisantom (talk) 03:54, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ del Mundo, Larah Vinda (2022-08-21). "How Marcos suppressed the truth behind Ninoy Aquino's assassination". Vera Files. Retrieved 2023-01-03.

Terminal number

The airport has four terminals. Say which terminal number. Jidanni (talk) 13:01, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Jidanni: At the time of Aquino's assasination, the Manila International Airport only had a single international terminal. This terminal is now the modern-day Terminal 1 of NAIA. Construction on Terminal 2 only began in 1995, past a decade after his assasination. Chlod (say hi!) 13:21, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Mundo, Larah Vinda (2022-08-21). "How Marcos suppressed the truth behind Ninoy Aquino's assassination". Vera Files. Retrieved 2023-01-03.

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