Transcript: Israeli P.M. Yitzhak Rabin Killed by Lone Jewish Gunman

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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, a war hero of that nation and a Nobel Prize-winning peace-maker as its head of state, was gunned down tonight by a Jewish law student who said he acted on `God's orders.'

DANIEL ZWERDLING, Host: Yitzhak Rabin has been assassinated. It' s All Things Considered. I'm Daniel Zwerdling.

Israeli Prime Minister Rabin was shot and killed by a gunman during a pro-peace rally in Tel Aviv this evening. Authorities have arrested a 27-year-old Jewish extremist. In Washington just a while ago, President Clinton said, `Peace must be, and peace will be, Prime Minister Rabin' s lasting legacy.

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