July 1967 - A Nation's Day Of Shame - In the Roman

July 1967 - A Nation's Day Of Shame - In the Roman Catholic Cathedral, thousands filed past Gen. Kotoka's coffin as servicemen mounted solemn guard. Never in the history of Ghana had a whole people risen up as one man to sing dirges for a departed hero with such feeling, such heart-rending sorrow, so many tears as when Lieutenant General Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka, architect of Ghana's freedom coup, fell on the fateful morning on Monday, April 17. Kotoka was murdered, a victim of an abortive counter-coup. He gave his life so that Ghanaians would continue enjoying the freedom he won for them when he wrested power from Nkrumah and all that he stood for. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA)

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