The story of the 'last photo' of Salvador Allende, the Chilean president who killed himself in the 1973 coup
On September 11, 1973, entrenched in the presidential palace in Santiago and facing Augusto Pinochet's coup, the Chilean president knew his hours were numbered. A new book looks at the story of the famous last photograph of Salvador Allende, in which he is holding a gun, a few hours before his suicide.