Assassination

Assassination is when someone murders an important person in a surprise attack for political or religious reasons. This happened to President John F. Kennedy, also known as JFK, on November 22, 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald. He was riding on a motorcade through Dealy Plaza when he was shot. JFK’s death is one of the most controversial assassinations and people still debate about it to this day. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy could have been prevented because secret agents would have…

Part I: Robert F. Kennedy, “Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.” Question 1 RFK was making his remarks on the assassination of Martin Luther King in the evening. His audience constitutes mostly black American, male adults in a comparatively economically disadvantaged locality. Based on the way the audience reacts and the manner in which RFK responds, (i.e. “Could you lower those signs, please?”), his audience has a psychology that whites are ‘murderers’ who do not deserve to…

Mary Surratt and the Cold Role She Played in Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination Over 150 years ago a lady named Mary Surratt and a couple of other conspirators were executed for the assassination of our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. Mary was thought to have delivered guns to a man named Lloyd as well as many other things. It is a huge debate to this day whether or not Mary was involved in the act and whether or not she should have been executed. Mary definitely was! Mary should have been…

young men killed. World War 1 caused Germany to become bankrupt, in making guns and large weapons to kill. The main cause of World War 1 was the assassination of one man called Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Setting off a chain of events leading up to World War 1 that would end with millions dead and wounded for life. Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination in Sarajevo on the 28th of June in 1914, by a rebel called Gavrilo Princip who shot Ferdinand and…

various minorities. The unemployed and illiterate among the marginalised fall an easy prey to the lies and misinformation spread by those who preach the religion and politics of hatred. In the story “Day One: The Train Station” in Between the Assassinations, Ziauddin, the young, uneducated Muslim boy, is sent out from home by his parents due to their extreme poverty. Zia comes to Kittur in search of a livelihood and falls an easy prey to the wiles of a terrorist recruiter. When he first comes to…

“The man with six weeks to live is anxious.” (O’Reilly 8). Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever, by Bill O'Reilly, is a book worth reading. The book is written in the viewpoint of the narrator in which he knows everything that is going on and will happen. The interest is with the killing of Abraham Lincoln. The readers should know that it is not just about Lincoln. It shows the lives of…

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Kentucky in a one room cabin with dirt floors and no glass windows. He went from the Wilderness to the White House capturing the American Dream on the way. He was a self-made man and was self-educated with less than a year of formal schooling. Lincoln was named after his Grandfather Abraham after the move to Kentucky in 1782. Lincoln was the son of a dirt farmer and his early life was poor and simple. He lived in the cabin he was born in until he…

No longer a Queen consort or a Queen dowager, Elizabeth taking solace in a church marked the end of Elizabeth’s reign of England. She was forced to acknowledge Richard as the King of England in order to leave the sanctuary and permit Richard to provide for her and her daughters. This was the same king who was rumored to have murdered or ordered the execution of her four sons. However, Elizabeth’s last ditch effort to establish her power in England came from the potential betrothals to her eldest…

There was a fellow by the name of Thomas Heany from near Fethard, County Tipperary who disembarked ship at Waterford in January 1786 after being absent from the country for over ten years. On being recognised he was immediately arrested by Sir Henry Alcock on 4 January and incarcerated in the City Jail where he languished until May of that year. According to contemporary reports since leaving Ireland he had led an adventurous life. During the war he was taken prisoner by the French. Upon his…

Born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830, Emily Dickinson was one of three children to Edward Dickinson, a successful lawyer, state representative and state senator, and his wife Emily Norcross Dickinson. Coming from a well-educated family who was prominent in the community, Dickinson was not attractive on the marriage market; and spent all of her time writing in her room and taking care of her sick mother. Writing was her vocation and her avocation. Dickinson is known as one of the greatest…