Assassinations and Assassination Attempts

Monday, March 30, 1981

Here are some potential questions you could pose if you are interviewing somebody about the Kennedy assassination:

Why is it so difficult for researchers to come to a consensus on who fired the fatal shots?

Who has something to gain by blaming Lee Harvey Oswald as the assassin?

Why has the Warren Report come under so much scrutiny and criticism?

Why are so few Americans aware of the conclusion of the House Select Committee on Assassinations?

Abraham Lincoln was 56 years, 2 months, and 3 days old when he died.

they were not related.

The killing of Kennedy was surely an historical event. Everybody alive remembers it and remembers what he was doing that day. Nothing was quite the same in the US for several months thereafter.

As for the Warren Comission , there was some importance in knowing the motivation behind the killing and how many killers there were. If it was a conspiracy, all the killers should be punished. The murder of Oswald by Jack Ruby complicated the situation considerably. There was also fear that the Soviet Union may have hired Oswald.

People seem to be fascinated by murderers. What are they like psychologicaly? Are they crazy? If so, could they be cured or maybe locked up before they kill someone?

Robert Kennedy. Brother of slain president John F. Kennedy.

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President Ford. It was only a couple of weeks after another person had tried to kill him.

It was Mary Surratt who was hanged.

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/assassins/mckinley/1.html

that's a good link with the story, but it was mckinley,

who was shot, and he died 8 days later

It caused additional anger against the southern states which resulted in more punitive action by northerners. Carpetbaggers ended up running the government in the south and caused even more severe hardships since they could no longer control their own destiny.

George Wallace was shot in Laurel Maryland on 15 May 1972.

Most were hung, including Mary Surratt, at whose boarding house the conspirators sometimes met, despite a recommendation for clemency from the military court which convicted and sentenced her. She may or may not have known anything of the plan, but the US government was in a vindictive mood. Her son, John Surratt, who definitely DID know of the plan and took part in it, escaped the country for a year and a half. By the time he was brought back to face trial, everyone felt pretty badly about his mother, and he was just let go.

Dr. Samuel Mudd, who set Booth's broken leg and probably knew nothing of the plot or of the murder of Lincoln the night before, was exiled for years to an island fortress in the Dry Tortugas, where he heroically helped save the garrison from an epidemic of Yellow Fever. Efforts continue to obtain a pardon for Dr. Mudd, whose descendant, Roger Mudd, was a newscaster for NBC an later a host on the History Channel.

Ronald Reagan was shot six times in a period of less than 2 seconds. This was the attempted assassination on the president on March, 30 1981.

e.g. There was a big assassination, in the north of China.

Andrew Jackson

Approximately 20 miles per hour (mph).

On 6 October 1981, Sadat was assassinated during the annual victory parade in Cairo.

The vehicle is on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

Not only is an assassination plot to kill a presidential candidate not considered treason, but an assassination plat to kill the actual president is not treason. Article III Section 1 Clause 1 of the Constitution defines treason this way: "Treason against the United States shall consist only of levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. " The assassination or murder of the person who is a president or candidate for president does not come within that definition. An assassin could argue that the assassination was done because he or she felt that the assassinated president was acting imprudently to the detriment of the country. In other words, the assassin could argue that he was being patriotic to the country by assassinating someone he or she thought would harm the country. In addition, the framers of the Constitution intended that there would be a distinction between the person running the country and the country itself. Treason was defined to be an offense against the country not against the person running the country. In countries ruled by monarchs, even verbal criticism of the monarch was considered treason because the monarch was the country and criticism of the monarch was criticism of the country. The Revolutionary War had been fought for the very purpose of being able to criticise the governing authority with being accused of treason.

It was a failed attempt aimed at Archduke Franz Ferdinand using a grenade.

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Booth felt that the South still had an opportunity to win the war if the leaders of the Union were taken out. He considered Lincoln to be a Tyrant and that the "South would rise again".

An assassination means the victim dies.

An assassination attempt is when the political figure survives. President Reagan's shooting by Jon Hinckley Jr. was an attempt, as were two attempts on Gerald Ford, although Ford was not injured in either case.

He was to have assassinated the Vice President at the same time but lost his nerve and nevered carried out the attempt.