A .38 caliber bullet hole in the windshield of his car marks the scene of the murder of Joseph Alon, an Israeli Air Force officer and military attaché working in Washington, DC. Alon was murdered outside his home in Bethesda, MD one night in 1973, in a case that shocked the nation as the first murder of a foreign diplomat inside the United States.
Alon returned home from a long day at work only to see an unknown assassin step out from the bushes surrounding his home and fire multiple times, even as his wife and daughters were inside awaiting his arrival. His last moments were spent in their arms, waiting for an ambulance to arrive.
The case soon went cold, and no suspects were arrested, even as Alon’s widow and daughters did everything they could to petition for more assistance from both the US and Israeli governments. For decades it remained unsolved.
