Infamous Murders: Somebody Killed the President
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On 14th April 1865, America's 16th President, Abraham Lincoln, was shot in the back of the head while watching a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington.
Lincoln had led the Union forces to victory in the American Civil War, and there were many who were passionately opposed to his Abolitionist stance. Infamous Murders describes how Lincoln's assassin, Mr John Wilkes Booth, shot him and then went on the run, before being shot down in a gun fight with Union soldiers.
America's twentieth president, James Garfield, was shot on the 2nd July 1881 by Charles Guiteau, and died a slow and painful death. Guiteau was embittered by his failure to win a diplomatic post in Washington. He made no attempt to escape, and on the 30th of June 1882 he went to the gallows.
On 6th September 1901 President William McKinley was visiting the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, when a man with a bandaged hand suddenly produced a gun and shot the president twice. McKinley was rushed to the hospital but died eight days later from his injuries.
The gunman, Leon Czolgosv, saw McKinley as the prime figure in a corrupt government that exploited the working classes of America. Czolgosv was sentenced to death, and showed no remorse. He felt he had done his duty in the cause of anarchy.
On 22nd November 1963, popular President John F Kennedy and his beautiful wife Jackie arrived in Dallas, Texas. Crowds lined the streets as the couple's open-topped car gently followed a pre-arranged route.
Suddenly the sound of gunshots split the air. Kennedy was hit twice and was dead in under an hour. Eyewitnesses led police to arrest Lee Harvey Oswald, but as he was being moved to the County Jail, he was shot in the stomach by local nightclub owner Jack Ruby, who claimed he did it for Jackie. Oswald's death raised more questions than it solved, and even today mystery surrounds the death of JFK.
Lincoln had led the Union forces to victory in the American Civil War, and there were many who were passionately opposed to his Abolitionist stance. Infamous Murders describes how Lincoln's assassin, Mr John Wilkes Booth, shot him and then went on the run, before being shot down in a gun fight with Union soldiers.
America's twentieth president, James Garfield, was shot on the 2nd July 1881 by Charles Guiteau, and died a slow and painful death. Guiteau was embittered by his failure to win a diplomatic post in Washington. He made no attempt to escape, and on the 30th of June 1882 he went to the gallows.
On 6th September 1901 President William McKinley was visiting the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, when a man with a bandaged hand suddenly produced a gun and shot the president twice. McKinley was rushed to the hospital but died eight days later from his injuries.
The gunman, Leon Czolgosv, saw McKinley as the prime figure in a corrupt government that exploited the working classes of America. Czolgosv was sentenced to death, and showed no remorse. He felt he had done his duty in the cause of anarchy.
On 22nd November 1963, popular President John F Kennedy and his beautiful wife Jackie arrived in Dallas, Texas. Crowds lined the streets as the couple's open-topped car gently followed a pre-arranged route.
Suddenly the sound of gunshots split the air. Kennedy was hit twice and was dead in under an hour. Eyewitnesses led police to arrest Lee Harvey Oswald, but as he was being moved to the County Jail, he was shot in the stomach by local nightclub owner Jack Ruby, who claimed he did it for Jackie. Oswald's death raised more questions than it solved, and even today mystery surrounds the death of JFK.
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