Olof Palme

Sven Olof Joachim Palme {{Audio|sv-Olof_Palme.ogg|listen}} (January 30, 1927 ? February 28, 1986) was a Swedish politician. He was the leader of the Social Democrat Party from 1969 to 1986 and was Prime Minister of Sweden with a Privy Council Government from October 1969 to October 1976 and with a Cabinet Government starting in October 1982. Palme was assassinated in 1986 and was succeeded by Ingvar Carlsson.

Further reading

• Blood on the snow : The killing of Olof Palme Jan Bondeson, Cornell University Press, 2005
• Inuti labyrinten (Within the labyrinth) Kari and Pertti Poutiainen, Grimur, 1994