The World - News from Dec. 20, 1988

The widow of assassinated Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme picked out of a police lineup a 41-year-old man suspected of his murder, Swedish TV reported. The news program Rapport quoted an unidentified, “well-connected” source as saying that Lisbet Palme identified Christer Petterson as the killer. Palme was shot from behind on Feb. 28, 1986, on a Stockholm street as he and his wife were walking home unguarded from a movie after saying goodby to their son. According to the broadcast, the source said both Palme’s widow and her son identified the suspect with varying degrees of certainty, but it gave no details. Authorities said they had no comment on the report.