Assassinations and Assassination Attempts

King's assassination served to secure the progress of the CIVIL RIGTHS MOVEMENT .He is also remembered as an icon of "HUMAN RIGTHS".

southern states were more accepting of union control during reconstruction

Tensions between nations in European, including between Austria and Serbia, for a century after the Napoleonic Wars. The assassination was the last straw in Austria and Serbia's conflict and that conflict was the first one to cause the mobilization of troops. That mobilization caused Russia, then Germany and then France to go to war.

Four knights stormed into Caterbury Cathedral where Becket was praying. At first they did not attempt to kill him although that was the end result. One of the knights struck him, cutting off the top of his head. Blood and brains went everywere and after they had literally slaughtered him his body was almost unrecognisable.

JFK. He expressed his condolence and he too was killed that same year.

Diem was difficult to deal with. His regime had terrorized South Vietnam and was wildly unpopular (especially his brother). The CIA was in contact with generals planning to remove Diem. They were told that the United States would not oppose such a move nor punish the generals by cutting off aid. President Diem was overthrown and executed, along with his brother, on November 2, 1963. When he was informed, Maxwell Taylor remembered that Kennedy "rushed from the room with a look of shock and dismay on his face." He had not approved Diem's murder. The U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, Henry Cabot Lodge, invited the coup leaders to the embassy and congratulated them.

A gigantic manhunt by Law-enforcement agencies who eventually nabbed James Earl Ray, which in effect sounds like a pseudonym. There was a King James ( first of United Kingdom- post-Elizabeth)- Earl is a title of nobility on a par with a princely rank, and Ray- spelled Rey, means King in Spanish! one wonder what his real handle was. a .30-=06 in Ray"s deft hand- sent M.L. King to the Promised Land- not funny. Also , there was a cascade if not a tidal wave of Race riots and disturbances following King"s death.

Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophia on June 28, 1914.

He had an interest in religion and may have attended a church of that denomination at some time.

The Great War (later known as World War 1).

a bomb was put in a skittle because Hitler liked rainbows so they tried that

Anedjib (possibly deposed),

Teti (assassinated accordinhg to Manetho, highly likely),

Userkare (probably deposed),

Merenre II (assassinated according to Manetho),

Mentuhotep IV (possibly deposed),

Amenemhat I, (assassinated)

Intef VIII (possibly murdered),

Seqenenre Tao (either killed in battle, executed, or assassinated),

Akhenaten (possibly murdered),

Smenkhare (possibly murdered),

Tutankhamun (possibly murdered),

Amenmesse (probably deposed),

Twosret (possibly deposed),

Ramesses III (assassinated),

Apries (deposed),

Amyrtaeus (deposed),

Psammuthes (probably deposed),

Nepherites II (deposed and probably killed),

Teos (deposed)

In the abdomen, in the basement of the Dallas City courthouse and jail.

they claimed they were there to beg Metellus Cimber brother to be allowed back to Rome and to dissmiss his exile.

Lee Harvey Oswald was caught in a theater.

It outraged the Austro-Hungarians and caused world war I.

Yes.

Booth shot the President, in the State Box, jumped over the opening ledge of the state box, and was aimed to land upon the stage, below. As he was jumping out of the box and onto the stage, Booth caught the spur of his boot on one of the flags, which were hung underneath the opening of the box. When the spur of his boot was snagged, this caused him to miss his landing, and his jump, resulted into a fall onto the stage. He then proceeded to flee from the theater, where he had already arranged for a rented horse from the local stable, (a stagehand by the name of Edmund Spangler who Booth had befriended, had been waiting with a horse at around 9:30, at the back of the theater.)

Booth then rode out of Washington DC and met up with fellow conspirator David Herald, in Maryland. They stopped at Lloyd's tavern that was leased from Mary Surratt in Surrattsville, had a drink and headed to Dr. Samuel Mudd's home. Booth needed medical attention for his leg, and the two arrived at Dr. Mudd's home at around 4am.

Dr. Mudd determined that Booth's leg had been broken and made a splint for it, as well as, a pair of crutches for Booth. The two at Dr. Mudd's home for about a day, and then Booth hired a man to lead the two to Samuel Cox's house. Colonel Samuel Cox had harbored sympathies for the confederate cause. Cox led the two to a man named Thomas Jones who led Booth and Herald through the Zekiah Swamp, and eventually across the Potomac River, over approximately a 5-6 day period.

Herald and Booth were in Virginia, and made their way into Port Royal, Virginia. On April 26, 1865, the Union Calvary had followed leads that two men fitting Booth and Herald's description were seen near the Rappahannock River, in Port Royal, Virginia. At approximately 2am, the Calvary eventually made their way to a tobacco farm owned by a Richard Garrett. Herald and Booth were sleeping in the farmer's barn. A Lieutenant detective from the Calvary yelled out to the two to surrender. After a few moments, Booth said he'd never surrender, then a few minutes later, Booth yelled out "Oh, Captain, there's a man in here who wants to surrender awful bad.", and Herald's voice then could be heard saying that he wanted to surrender. Herald came out slowly, and was slammed to the ground by the Calvary, and subsequently tied to a tree.

Still Booth would not come out. Using straw and brush, the cavalry set the barn on fire. Booth was visible to the soldiers because the barn was full of cracks and knotholes.

Sergeant Boston Corbett fired at Booth, hitting him in the neck. Booth was not dead but had been paralyzed. He was then dragged from the burning barn, and the Calvary moved Booth a couple of times, finally placing him on the porch of the farmer's house. Booth died at about 7am, on the same morning, April 26, 1865.

Martin Luther King Jr. was killed on April 4, 1968. He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

The Presidential Succession Act of 1886. The previous Act (1792) vested the succession in the President Pro-Tem of the Senate, followed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. However, at the time of Garfield's death, both offices were vacant, so that, had anything happened to Vice-President Chester Arthur, there would have been no lawful President. This led to a change in the law, vesting the succession in the Secretary of State, followed by the other Cabinet officers in the order that their departments were created. The 1886 law remained in effect until 1947, when it was amended to leave the Cabinet officers still in line of succession, but only after the Speaker and President Pro-Tem.

Yes- there was an attempt on his life on February 15,1933 in Miami when Roosevelt was president-elect. Roosevelt was in an open car at the time. The mayor of Chicago , Anton J. Cermak was hit and later died. Roosevelt was not hurt.

Mohandas Gandhi was shot three times at point-blank range in the chest with a .38 Beretta M 1934 semi-automatic pistol. It was a standard firearm issued to the Italian Army at that time.

Brutus and Cassius delivered speech to convince the roman mob and give proper reasons for Caesar's death. Then Mark Antony delivered his funeral speech where he succeeded to influence the mindset of the fickle-minded mob in his favour. They began considering Julius Caesar to be the noblest man in Rome. They ran into rage against the conspirators. Brutus and Cassius were driven out of the Gates of Rome and Cinna the poet was killed when the mob punished him for a matching name with Cinna the Conspirator. The armies of 'Brutus and Cassius' and 'Antony and Octabius' geared to fight each other.

LINCOLN-KENNEDY STRANGE SIMILARITIES (Duelling Presidents) Abe Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846 JFK was elected to Congress in 1946 Abe was elected President in 1860 JFK was elected President in 1960 The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters Both were particularly concerned about civil rights Both their wives lost their children while living in the White House Both were shot on a Friday Both were shot in the head Both were in the presence of their wives when shot The secretary of each president warned them not to go to the theatre and Dallas respectively Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln Both were assassinated by southerners Both were succeeded by southerners Both successors were named Johnson Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808 Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908 John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839 Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939 Both assassins were known by their three names Both names have 15 letters Booth ran from the theatre and was captured in a warehouse Oswald ran from the warehouse and was captured in a theatre Lincoln was assassinated in the Ford Theatre Kennedy was assassinated in a Lincoln (made by Ford) To cap it all off, Booth and Oswald were assassinated before trial Hmmmmmmmmmmm! Mystery or statistical coincidence?