Dag Hammarskjöld Living Memorial Initiative. There are three components which constitute the Living Memorial: I) The Dag Hammarskjöld Crash Site: Over the past 40 years, the crash site has ...

In which the author, exclusively for CounterPunch, goes by train but also by ferry, bicycle, plane, and rental car from Nairobi, Kenya, to Pretoria and ...

Mikael Persbrandt-starrer ‘Hammarskjold - Fight for Peace' explores the hidden life of the former U.N. Secretary General.

Who Killed Hammarskjöld? A new book reopens the 50-year-old mystery of how U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld and 15 others died in a plane crash on September 18, 1961 ...

Dag Hammarskjold at Elisabethville airport, Katanga, August 1960 (Courtesy Hachette Book Group) The son of Sweden’s former prime minister, Hammarskjöld, grew up in a pink castle.

‘Cold Case Hammarskjöld’ Film Review: Formless Documentary Tackles Two Topics, Reveals Little About Either. As a whodunit regarding the death of Dag Hammarskjöld, or an exposé about the ...

The death of the late Dag Hammarskjöld, who took the helm of the UN as Secretary-General in 1953, remains shrouded in mystery. However, previously unpublished ...

Mads Brügger’s sardonic approach to a serious subject won over the Sundance Film Festival. Now he’s asking U.S. audiences to revisit this cold case.

According to Brügger, “If there ever was a time where members of the UN were longing for the death of the Secretary-General, it was during the reign of Dag Hammarskjöld.” ...

And, though that history stretches over many decades, there was one former U.N. Secretary-General who the Pope called out by name: Dag Hammarskjöld, who held the position in the 1950s.

Dag Hammarskjöld was the Secretary General of the United Nations from 1953 to 1961. This website contains many resources and information about his career.