John Battsek

September 5, 1972. In Munich, West Germany, it was the second week of the Summer Games; an "Olympics of serenity" which the Germans hoped would eclipse the memory of the Nazis' 1936 Berlin Olympics. On that day, however, an international television audience watched a real-life drama unfold in real time as a group of Palestinian terrorists murdered two Israeli Olympians and held nine more as hostages for 21 hours. The world became both smaller and...