Chevy Chase

Chevy Chase was one of the first planned streetcar suburbs in the Washington area, developed in the 1890s by Senator Francis Newlands as a residential community at the end of the Connecticut Avenue line. These posts trace the neighborhood from its origins as a real estate speculation to its current status as one of DC’s most desirable addresses.

Who Killed Yosef Alon? The Unsolved 1973 Bethesda Murder

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Dassault Mirage III fighter of the Israeli Air Force, the same type Yosef Alon commanded with 101 Squadron

Around 1 a.m. on July 1, 1973, Israeli air attaché Yosef Alon was shot five times in his Chevy Chase driveway. The case has officially been closed for fifty years, but Fred Burton, Carlos the Jackal, and Alon’s daughters each have a different idea about who pulled the trigger and why.

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