Faisal of Saudi Arabia

King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in 1972.

Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Arabic: فيصل بن عبدالعزيز آل سعودcode: ar is deprecated Fayṣal ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Su‘ūd; 14 April 1906 – 25 March 1975) was King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 until his assassination.

Life

Born on April 14, 1906. He was the third son of Ibn Saud. He became king when his brother Saud resigned.

He was the Saudi foreign minister from 1930 and prime minister from 1954 until his death, except for a two-year break in both positions from 1960 to 1962.

Death

On 25 March 1975, King Faisal was shot twice in the head in a point-blank by his nephew, Faisal bin Musaid, the son of his half-brother, Musa'id bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. He was quickly taken to Central Hospital in Riyadh as doctors massaged his heart and gave him a blood transfusion but failed. He died shortly afterwards. He was 68 years old. At the time of his death, his nephew was executed three months later by decapitation for the murder.

Faisal Of Saudi Arabia Media

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  At the age of thirteen, during his visit to the United Kingdom in 1919

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  Leading the Asir campaign, 1922

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  Visiting Camp de Satory in France, 1932

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  Faisal, as minister of foreign affairs, in 1942

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  With Prince Khalid in Washington, D.C., 1943

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  With Gamal Abdel Nasser in Hejaz, 1954

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  Meeting with President Kennedy, October 1962

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  Arab leaders meet in Cairo, September 1970. From left to right: Muammar Gaddafi (Libya), Yasser Arafat (Palestine), Jaafar al-Nimeiri (Sudan), Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt), King Faisal (Saudi Arabia) and Sheikh Sabah (Kuwait)

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  Abha Dam, completed in 1974