THROWBACKTHISDAY, MAR 16; Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and later killed by his captors.

Aldo Romeo Luigi Moro (23 September 1916 – 9 May 1978) was an Italian Christian Democratic politician and the 38th Prime Minister of Italy, from 1963 to 1968, and then from 1974 to 1976.

He was one of Italy's longest-serving post-war Prime Ministers, holding power for a combined total of more than six years.

A leader of Christian Democracy (Democrazia Cristiana, DC), Moro was considered an intellectual and a patient mediator, especially in the internal life of his party. He was kidnapped on 16 March 1978 by the Red Brigades (BR), a Marxist–Leninist urban guerilla organization, and killed after 55 days of captivity.

THROWBACKTHISDAY; makes it 38 years and TBT Blog remembers