Were there any political assassinations in the US between 1968 and December 2000?

Answer 1

Between 1968, which saw the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr and Robert Kennedy, and December of 2000, there were the following political assassinations in the United States:

• December 4, 1969 - Fred Hampton, Deputy Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party was killed by law officers from several different agencies. It has been widely accepted that this was an assassination.
• November 6, 1973 - Marcus Foster, Oakland CA School District Superintendent in Oakland was assassinated by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
• June 13, 1976 - Don Bolles, an investigative reporter for Arizona Republic, was assassinated with a car bomb, by two killers with alleged Mafia ties.
• September 21, 1976 - Orlando Letelier, who had been the Chilean ambassador to the United States, was killed in Washington DC by agents of the Chilean Secret Police.
• November 27, 1978 - George Moscone, the mayor of San Francisco, and Harvey Milk, San Francisco supervisor were killed by Dan White in San Francisco City Hall because White was upset over losing his job.
• June 18, 1984 - Alan Berg, a radio talk-show host, was killed by Neo-nazis.
• October 15, 1984 - Henry Liu, a Taiwanese-American writer was killed, allegedly by Kuomintang agents.
• October 11, 1985 - Alex Odeh, an Arab-American anti-discrimination activist, was killed by a bomb at his office in Santa Ana, California. The assassin has not been brought to justice.
• April 29, 1986 - Alejandro González Malavé, an undercover policeman in Puerto Rico, was assassinated, apparently because of his involvement in a case relating to the deaths of revolutionaries, in which he was charged, but found not guilty.
• November 5, 1990 - Meir David Kahane, a member of the Israeli Knesset and founder of the Jewish Defense League, was shot to death by Arab gunmen.
• May 21, 1991 - Ioan P. Culianu, a professor at the University of Chicago, was assassinated in Chicago, possibly because of his political writings.
• March 10, 1993 - David Gunn, an abortion doctor was murdered by Michael Griffin, a religious terrorist.
• July 29, 1994 - John Britton, another abortion doctor, was murdered by anti-abortion activist Paul Jennings Hill.
• October 23, 1998 - Barnett Slepian, also an abortion doctor, was murdered by anti-abortion activist James Charles Koop.

In addition, there were a number of attempts that failed.

May 12, 1972- Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, Shot by Arthur Herman Bremer, at Laurel, MD, Wallace paralized from waist down

Feb. 22, 1974- President Richard Nixon, Sam Byke attempted to hijack plane and crash into White House, Plane never took off, Byke killed self after being shot several times

Sept. 5, 1975- President Gerald Ford, shots fired by Lynette Alice(Squeaky) Fromme, at Sacremento, CA, Ford not injured

Sept. 22, 1975- President Gerald Ford, Shot fired by Sarah Jane Moore, at San Francisco, CA, Ford not injured

May 5, 1979- President Richard Nixon, Raymond Lee Harvey arrested for carrying pistol, claimed he and another man were hired to create diversion so Mexicans could shoot Carter, Los Angelas, CA, Carter not injured

May 29, 1980- Civil Rights Leader Vernon E. Jordan Jr., Shot by Joseph Paul Franklin, Fort Wayne, IN, Critically Injured

March 30, 1981- President Ronald Reagan, Shot by John Hinckley Jr., Washington, D.C., Shot in lung, Recovered

October 29, 1994- President Bill Clinton, Shots fired by Francisco Martin Duran, fired 29 shots from Pennsylvania avenue, fired at a group of men in dark suits, assuming Clinton was one of them, he was watching a football game in the White House, Washington D.C., No one was injured