On May 8, 1945,
New Yorker writer Philip Hamburger wired this dispatch from Italy, where he observed the fall of the Fascists and the execution of Mussolini and his henchmen. His words, read here by
New Yorker colleague Calvin Trillin, have particular resonance today. Hamburger died this past month. Produced by Emily Botein.
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