Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Sept. 5, 2024.

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“They’re all gone.”

On Sept. 5, 1972, Palestinian militants attacked the Israeli Olympic delegation at the Munich Games, killing two and taking nine others hostage. Five of the militants, a German police officer and all nine hostages were killed in the following 24 hours.

And ABC sportscaster Jim McKay shared those words to the world.

The 1972 Munich Summer Games was supposed to be the opposite of Berlin 1936, which was fraught with tense nationalism. Nearly three decades after the Holocaust, West German authorities wanted to host the “cheerful Games.”

But 10 days into the Games, a small group of the group Black September — an affiliate o

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