An episode guide: Grenada’s Prime Minister was executed in a coup in 1983. The location of his remains is unknown. New details reveal the role the U.S. played.
Maurice Bishop, the revolutionary leader of Grenada, was executed in 1983 alongside seven others. The whereabouts of their remains are unknown. For the past two years, we have investigated this mystery, including the role the U.S. government played in shaping the Caribbean nation’s fate, for a six-part podcast. We’ve interviewed more than 100 people, pored over archival photographs, scrutinized government documents and visited the sites where events took place.
Ultimately, it was not the United States but tensions within Bishop’s own party that led to his undoing. Yet archival photographs like the one below, taken two days after his execution, show that Bishop held wide support among Grenadians even after his death. Sir Eric Gairy was the nation’s prime minister at the time. He was popular at first, but some Grenadians began to see him as power-hungry and corrupt, and he unleashed brutal violence on his political enemies. Here he is at a news conference in February 1974, joking that those who opposed him may have ended up in the cemetery, dead from “natural causes.”
The Grenadian revolution, which Bishop helped lead, was for many Grenadians a new beginning. In addition to the radio clips you hear in this episode, we also found videos that captured what life was like then.We also heard stories about the downside of the revolution. As much as Bishop projected this idealistic vision of what Grenada had become, cracks quickly formed.
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