James Kennedy on Pim Fortuyn

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
As part of our station-wide Old Amsterdam/New Amsterdam series, Professor James Kennedy from Amsterdam’s Free University talks about the life and death of Pim Fortuyn, the openly gay, right-wing Dutch populist politician. He was the leading candidate to become the next prime minister before his assassination in 2002.
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