assassination

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• 5/10/2020
  

  Yes, John Wilkes Booth did Speak Those Notorious Words At Lincoln's Last Speech

  by Ken Lawrence

  There is ample evidence Booth declared his intention--complete with racist invective-- to kill Lincoln after hearing the President state his willingness to make black Union soldiers citizens. The quote helps keep Booth's motives in focus for students of history.

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• 3/31/19
  

  How Hollywood has been fooled by Robert F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theorists

  by Mel Ayton

  Sirhan Sirhan is guilty. 

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• 10/25/18
  

  Have We Entered a New Era of Political Assassination in America?

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  The explosives sent through the mail this week raise disturbing questions.

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• 9/2/18
  

  One Historian's Helpful Tip on Making History More Attractive to Students

  by David Lee McMullen

  This fall he'll be offering a course that no one could possible think is dull.

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  6/1/18
  

  Now 2 of RFK’s children are calling for a fresh investigation of his assassination

  They are not convinced that Sirhan Sirhan killed him.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  7-27-17
  

  Did Russia kill JFK? Long-secret CIA files show a Russian spy's theory.

  KGB defector Yuri Nosenko was imprisoned after the CIA grew suspicious of claims he had intimate information regarding the assassination.

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• 3-8-16
  

  And Now We Hear that Someone Wants to Kill Donald Trump?

  by Mel Ayton

  This is what happens with politicians who have incited extreme reactions to their candidacies.

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• SOURCE: WBEZ, This American Life
  10-16-15
  

  The brothers who killed Israeli leader Yitzhak Rabin remain proud of what they did

  They assassinated Rabin 20 years ago this month to stop the peace process.  It worked. 

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• 12-1-15
  

  How Do You Unfriend an Assassin?

  by Kathryn Canavan

  That was the problem these people faced after their friend John Wilkes Booth killed the president of the United States.

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• SOURCE: Mondoweiss.net
  11-3-15
  

  Anniversary of Rabin assassination is marked by incitement

  “Fans of Jerusalem’s national soccer team enthusiastically chanted the name of Rabin’s assassin, Yigal Amir, alongside the usual call of 'Death to Arabs.' ”

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  

  The Untold Miracle of Lincoln’s Last Day on Earth

  by Michael Daly

  One hundred fifty years ago to the day, the president welcomed a hungry, desperate soldier’s wife into the White House. Seven hours later, he would be assassinated.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-13-15
  

  For a Biography of John Wilkes Booth, Terry Alford Turns to Amateur Researchers

  Mr. Alford’s book, published by Oxford University Press, is already being hailed as an important contribution, with the Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer praising it as “so deeply researched and persuasively argued that it should stand as the standard portrait for years.”

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• 4-14-15
  

  Lincoln’s Assassination – and Caesar’s

  by Barry Strauss

  Both Lincoln and his assassin misread the lessons of history.

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• SOURCE: CBS
  4-13-15
  

  Security lapses led to Lincoln's assassination

  His security guard left to get a drink at a tavern.

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• SOURCE: Washington Decoded (Max Holland's website)
  3-11-15
  

  New definitive biography of Clay Shaw exonerates him of any role in JFK's assassination

  The real Clay Shaw simply does not emerge as the Kennedy-hater some have suspected he was.

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• 7-16-14
  

  Castro ordered JFK killed? Wiki entry edited by someone in the government says so.

  by HNN Editor

  Who's making the changes?  That's unknown.