On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.

Most modern assassinations have been committed either during a public performance or during transport, both because of weaker security and security lapses, such as with U. S. President John F. Kennedy and former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, or as part of coups d ' état where security is either overwhelmed or completely removed, such as with Patrice Lumumba and likely Salvador Allende.

Chapter headings such as ‘ Selective Use of Violence for propagandistic Effects ’ and ‘ Implicit and Explicit Terror ’ made that fact clear enough ... The little booklet thus violated President Reagan ’ s own Presidential Directive 12333, signed in December 1981, which prohibited any U. S. government employee-including the CIA-from having anything to do with assassinations .”

Political assassinations and assassination attempts were still rare in France, but there were some notable exceptions, including President Marie François Sadi Carnot in 1894.

* At the time of his summons from the OAS, the Jackal has just completed the assassinations of two German missile engineers, recruited to work on President Nasser's heavy rocket program in Egypt.

The Gun Control Act of 1968 was part of President Johnson's Great Society series of programs and was spurred in passage by the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King.

Critics of the party have accused the SPS of involvement with organised crime, blackmail, political assassinations ( such as former Serbian President Ivan Stambolić ), supporting paramilitary formations during the Yugoslav Wars, and profiteering from illicit drug and oil trade.

The " Key " is purportedly a synopsis of Roberts ' documents that presents a chronicle of interlocking conspiracies, including claims that world events since the 1950s were shaped by suppressed information, the names of supposed shooters of President John F. Kennedy, and suggested connections between a number of political assassinations which occurred within a relatively short time frame.

Bailey is shot and killed by Bond at the White House after attempting to witness the assassinations of both the President of the United States and the British Prime Minister.

* Empire by Orson Scott Card ( 2006 ), features the assassinations of the President and Vice President and the subsequent ascension of the Speaker of the House.

The assassinations cause a civil war, later revealed to be instigated by the National Security Advisor, who is later elected President.

Under recommendations and pressure by this committee, President Gerald Ford issued Executive Order 11905 ( ultimately replaced in 1981 by President Reagan's Executive Order 12333 ) to ban U. S. sanctioned assassinations of foreign leaders.

He also served in the Criminal Division of FBI headquarters where he supervised Congressional review of the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and President John F. Kennedy.

These include the assassinations of Sheikh Talib al-Suhail al-Tamimi in Beirut ( April 1994 ), Ayatollah Mehdi al-Hakim in Sudan ( January 1988 ), and Dr. Ayad Habashi in Rome ( October 1986 ), as well as the attempted assassinations of President George H. W.

Civilian targets included places of worship, ports, airports and assassinations of high profile Indian and Sri Lankan dignitaries, among them Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa.

These bombings and assassinations came after September 2004, when the Lebanese Parliament was forced to extend the term of Pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud, a move that was unconstitutional.

Edward Hyam's book, Killing No Murder, which studied a number of assassinations, accepted this theory, with the added error of supposing Secretaries Seward and Stanton to be next in line after the Vice President.

The station ’ s success was largely driven by a Nation ’ s Capital audience then riveted to news of the Vietnam War and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy.

He was the leader of Burundi when it was granted independence in 1962, and he created a constitutional monarchy, which suffered much turmoil including the assassinations of at least three prime ministers.

Petrovic was preparing a book on the history of the Sarajevo assassinations and the Black Hand.

The leadership was tried before a kangaroo court and convicted on false charges unrelated to Sarajevo, such as plotting an assassinations of Nikola Pašić and Crown prince Aleksandar ; many were given death sentences.

It may be associated with deception, stealth, and / or treachery due to the ease of concealment and surprise that someone could inflict with one on an unsuspecting victim, and indeed many assassinations have been carried out with the use of a dagger, including that of Julius Caesar.

" The British killed over 4000, and the Mau Mau many more, as the assassinations and killings on all sides reflecting the ferocity of the movement and the ruthlessness with which the British suppressed it.

Lisa North, an expert on Peru at York University, noted that " the assassinations they carried out were absolutely ruthless.

* The assassinations and attempts on the lives of several of Saddam's lawyers.

* Wracked by rapid inflation and political assassinations and motivated by hostility and arrogance as well, the Weimar Republic announces its inability to pay more and proposes a moratorium on reparations for 3 years.

Members of different factions often fought on the streets, and political assassinations, particularly in predominantly rural provinces, were common.

An assassination market or market for assassinations is a prediction market where any party can place a bet ( using anonymous electronic money, and pseudonymous remailers ) on the date of death of a given individual, and collect a payoff if they " guess " the date accurately.

Although surviving these assassinations, it put him in a state of paranoia fear of another attempt on his life.

During his Freikorps period, he was on intimate terms with the people such as Horst von Pflugk-Harttung who were accused of political assassinations of leaders of the left, and was even accused himself, although later acquitted, of being involved in the assassinations and other crimes ( such as his alleged involvement in Rosa Luxembourg's " trial ").

The group obtained valuable information which was routinely passed on to the French secret services, but was eventually destroyed by OAS assassinations.

This was followed by several more assassinations on both sides, the most prominent victim being Seamus Costello, who was shot dead on the North Strand Road in Dublin on 6 October 1977.

In addition to assassinations, kidnappings, and symbolic attacks on corporate and government offices, 17N supported its operations with at least 11 bank robberies netting approximately US $ 3. 5 million.

R. T. France argues for plausibility on the grounds, inter alia, that “ the murder of a few infants in a small village not on a scale to match the more spectacular assassinations recorded by Josephus ”; Schnackenburg follows this line also, and Gordon Franz points to Josephus ' failure to mention other pivotal events in the first century AD, such as " the episode of the golden Roman shields in Jerusalem which was the cause of the bad blood between Herod Antipas and Pontus ( sic ) Pilate ".

During the custody hearing, both Ted and Joanna are unprepared for the brutal character assassinations that their lawyers unleash on the other.

Topics on which Shahak wrote included suppression of freedom of speech and political activity, land ordinances and confiscation, living restrictions, home destruction, unequal pay and work restrictions, emergency defense regulations, torture of prisoners, collective punishment, assassinations, discrimination in education and deprivation of citizenship.

* Based on Yniguez-church's count, the number of victims of extrajudicial killings has reached 778, while survivors of " political assassinations ," was pegged at 370.

The same year, " People Got to Be Free ", a horn-punctuated plea for racial tolerance ( the band was known for refusing to tour on segregated bills ) in the wake of the assassinations that year of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., became their third and final U. S. # 1 single, and their sixth and final Canadian # 1.

The TIGR carried out several bomb attacks on Italian and German soil, as well as assassinations of Italian military personnel, police forces, civil servants and prominent members of the National Fascist Party.

In Dublin, the war largely took the form of assassinations and reprisals on either side.

Four assassinations were committed by the PAC: Antonio Santoro, a prison guard accused by the PAC of mistreatment of prisoners ( on June 6, 1978 in Udine ), jeweler Pierluigi Torregiani ( on February 16, 1979 in Milan ), Lino Sabadin, a butcher ( on the same date, near Mestre ), and DIGOS agent Andrea Campagna, who had participated in the first arrests in the Torregiani case ( on April 19, 1979 in Milan ).

Hakakian's latest book, Assassins of the Turquoise Palace – released on September 6, 2011 through Grove / Atlantic – is a non-fiction account of the Mykonos restaurant assassinations on September 17, 1992, in Berlin.