Bonus Episode: Who was Dag Hammarskjöld?

As with JFK, discussions of Dag Hammarskjöld so often turn to the mysterious circumstances of his death following a plane crash on September 18, 1961. On my daytime podcast, I talked about Ravi Somaiya's book The Golden Thread and Mads Brügger's truly unique documentary Cold Case Hammarskjöld. In a future episode here, I plan to review Susan Williams' book Who Killed Hammarskjöld?  My question tonight, however, is: who was Dag Hammarskjöld? Leaving aside the bizarre details of his untimely death, who was he? Links:https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/14034550https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/14042731https://books.google.com/books/about/Dag_Hammarskj%C3%B6ld.html?id=MTBEAAAAIAAJhttps://www.amazon.com/Dag-Hammarskjold-Strictly-Personal-Portrait/dp/B0006BYLAIhttps://roape.net/2024/02/08/myth-busting-dag-hammarskjold-katanga-and-the-coup-against-the-lumumba-government/https://www.amazon.com/Hammarskj%C3%B6ld-United-Nations-Decolonisation-Africa/dp/1787380041 Need more? You can visit the website at: https://consaracytheories.com/ or my own site at: https://saracausey.com/. Don't forget to check out the blog at: https://consaracytheories.com/blog.