The Death of Evita

Witness History

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

On July 26 1952 Argentina's controversial First Lady, Eva Peron, died in Buenos Aires. During her short life she had become an icon for women and the poor in the South American nation. In 2012 Krupa Padhy spoke to two very different Argentine women who remember meeting her.

Photo: President Juan Peron and his wife, Eva Peron, at a demonstration in Buenos Aires, August 1951. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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0:49.0	featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices.
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1:00.9	poltergeist, cricket and conspiracy theories, and that's just a few examples.
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1:12.1	Hi, you're listening to the Witness Podcast, History Told by the People Who Were There.
1:17.0	Today we're going back to July 1952 when the First Lady of Argentina died.
1:22.0	Either Perron or Evita as she was known
1:25.0	had become much more than just the President's wife.
1:28.0	She was an icon for women and for the poor in Argentina,
1:31.0	and after she died, she came to be viewed in an almost religious way.
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