Today in History: October 23, Beirut barracks bombings

Today in History: October 23, Beirut barracks bombings

More than 200 U.S. service members, most of them Marines, were killed in a suicide truck-bombing at the U.S. Marine Corps barracks at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon, while a near-simultaneous attack on French barracks in Beirut killed 58 paratroopers.