Klinghoffer’s Body Expected in N.Y. Today
A military honor guard will meet the airplane bearing home the remains of Leon Klinghoffer, the New Yorker slain aboard the hijacked Achille Lauro and dumped into the Mediterranean Sea, a family friend says.
Klinghoffer was killed Oct. 8 and his body thrown into the sea. The corpse washed up on a Syrian beach last week.
Letty Simon, a spokeswoman for the family, said the body will arrive at John F. Kennedy International Airport from Rome this afternoon.
Klinghoffer’s widow, Marilyn, other family members and a U.S. Armed Forces honor guard will meet the flight, she said.
A private funeral was scheduled for Monday at a New York synagogue, Simon said.
In an autopsy conducted in Rome, doctors determined that the 69-year-old American died from a gunshot wound, and not, as the Palestine Liberation Organization has claimed, from a heart attack.
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