- John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy , also referred to as John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, John Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, or JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of the United States. In 1960 he became the youngest person ever to be elected President of the United States, and the second youngest, after Theodore Roosevelt, to serve. Kennedy served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the main leaders of the American civil rights movement, a political activist, a Baptist minister, and is regarded as one of America's greatest orators. King's most influential and well-known public address is the "I Have A Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in 1963. In 1964, King became the youngest man to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (for his work as a peacemaker, … - Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 - November 24, 1963) was, according to two United States government investigations, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. A former Marine who defected to the Soviet Union and later returned, Oswald was arrested later that day on suspicion of killing the president and Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit. Oswald denied any responsibility for the murders. - Ted Kennedy
Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (born February 22, 1932) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. In office since November 1962, Kennedy is presently the second-longest serving member of the Senate, after Robert Byrd of West Virginia. The most prominent living member of the Kennedy family, he is the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both of whom were assassinated in the 1960s. - Malcolm X
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965), also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an American Black Muslim minister and spokesman for the Nation of Islam. After leaving the Nation of Islam in 1964, he went on a pilgrimage to Mecca and became a Sunni Muslim; he also founded the Muslim Mosque, Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity. - Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (Latin pronunciation ; English pronunciation ; July 12 or July 13, 100 BC or 102 BC – March 15, 44 BC), was a Roman military and political leader and one of the most influential men of World history. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. - Hosni Mubarak
Muhammad Hosni Said Mubarak, Arabic: محمد حسنى سيد مبارك Muḥammad Ḥusnī Mubārak, commonly known as Hosni Mubarak, Arabic: حسنى مبارك Ḥusnī Mubārak (born May 4, 1928) has been the president of Egypt since October 14, 1981. Mubarak was appointed vice-president of the Republic of Egypt after moving up the ranks of the Egyptian Air Force. - Indira Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (November 19, 1917 - October 31, 1984) was an Indian politician who served as Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and for a fourth term from 1980 to 1984. Born in the politically influential Nehru dynasty, she grew up in an intensely political atmosphere. Her grandfather Motilal Nehru and father Jawaharlal Nehru were prominent Indian nationalist leaders. While studying at Somerville College, University of Oxford, … - Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, "Midnight's Children" (1981), which won the Booker Prize. Much of his early fiction is set at least partly on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism, while a dominant theme of his work is the long, rich and often fraught story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the East and the West. - Jack Ruby
Jacob Rubenstein, who legally changed his name to Jack Leon Ruby in 1947, was a Dallas businessman and nightclub owner. He was convicted of the November 24, 1963 murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, two days after Oswald's arrest for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He successfully appealed his conviction and sentence of death. As a date for his new trial was being set, he took ill and died. - Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King was the wife of the assassinated civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., and a noted community leader. Coretta King is a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. - Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 - 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes, was a member of a group of English Roman Catholics who attempted to carry out the Gunpowder Plot on 5 November 1605. - James Earl Ray
James Earl Ray (March 10, 1928 - April 23, 1998) was convicted of the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which occurred on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. Ray also has the distinction of having been twice placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. - Jim Garrison
Earling Carothers "Jim" Garrison (November 20, 1921 - October 21, 1992) - who changed his first name to simply Jim in the early '60s - was the Democratic District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana from 1962 to 1973; he is best known for his investigations into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. - Larry Flynt
Larry Claxton Flynt, Jr. (born November 1, 1942) is an American publisher and the head of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP). LFP mainly produces pornographic videos and magazines, most notably "Hustler". The company has an annual turnover approximating $150 million. Larry Flynt has had several legal battles involving the First Amendment, and has run for public office a number of times. - Detlev Mehlis
Detlev Mehlis (born 1949) is currently the Senior Public Prosecutor in the Office of the Attorney General in Berlin. He has 25 years of prosecutorial experience and has led numerous investigations into serious, complex transnational crimes. He has been a senior public prosecutor since 1992 and has, over the course of his career, been responsible for prosecuting terrorism and organized crime cases. - Hrant Dink
Hrant Dink (September 15, 1954 – January 19, 2007) was a Turkish-Armenian editor, journalist and columnist. As editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper "Agos" (Ակօս), Dink was a prominent member of the Armenian minority in Turkey. - Mark Antony
Marcus Antonius (Latin: <small>M·ANTONIVS·M·F·M·N</small>) ("c." January 14, 83 BC - August 1, 30 BC), known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and general. He was an important supporter of Gaius Julius Caesar as a military commander and administrator. After Caesar's assassination, Antony allied with Octavian and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus to form an official triumvirate which modern scholars have labelled the second triumvirate. - Yigal Amir
Yigal Amir (born May 23, 1970) is the Israeli assassin of the late Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin. The assassination took place November 4, 1995 at the conclusion of a rally in Tel Aviv. Amir is currently serving a life sentence for murder plus 14 years for conspiracy to murder Yitzhak Rabin on different occasions and for injuring Rabin's bodyguard, Yoram Rubin. - Joseph Kabila
Joseph Kabila Kabange, known commonly as Joseph Kabila, became president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo after the murder of his father, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, in January 2001. On November 27, 2006, he was confirmed as the first Congolese President to be democratically elected by universal direct suffrage. - James Garfield
James Abram Garfield was a major general in the United States Army, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and the twentieth President of the United States. He was the second U.S. President to be assassinated - Abraham Lincoln was the first. Garfield had the second shortest presidency in U.S. history, after William Henry Harrison's. Holding office from March 5 to September 19, 1881, President Garfield served for a total of six months and fifteen days. - Jack Anderson
Jackson Northman Anderson (October 19, 1922 - December 17, 2005) was an American newspaper columnist and is considered one of the fathers of modern investigative journalism. Anderson won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his investigation on secret American policy decision-making between the United States and Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. - Jean Dominique
Jean Léopold Dominique was a noted Haïtian journalist who spoke out against successive dictatorships. He was one of the first people in Haïti to broadcast in Kreyòl, the language spoken by most of the populace. Despite fleeing the country twice when his life was under threat, he continued to return to his native Haïti. He was assassinated on April 3, 2000, a crime for which no one has ever been prosecuted. - Lakshman Kadirgamar
Sri Lankabhimanya Hon. Lakshman Kadirgamar PC (April 12, 1932 - August 12, 2005) was a Sri Lankan politician. After a distinguished career as a lawyer and international humanitarian, he was appointed as foreign minister of Sri Lanka in 1994 by President Chandrika Kumaratunga. He achieved international prominence in this position due his wide ranging condemnation of the LTTE and his efforts to have then banned internationally. - Fred Hampton
Fred Hampton was an American activist and deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). He was killed in his apartment by a corrupt tactical unit of the Cook County, Illinois State's Attorney's Office (SAO), in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Hampton’s murder was chronicled in The Murder of Fred Hampton. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (February 4, 1906 - April 9, 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, participant in the German Resistance movement against Nazism, and a founding member of the Confessing Church. He was involved in plots planned by members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office) to assassinate Adolf Hitler. He was arrested in March 1943, imprisoned, and eventually hanged just before the end of the World War II in Europe. - Barry Chamish
Barry Chamish (born Winnipeg, 1952) is a Canadian-Israeli religious Zionist activist and writer, best known as a conspiracy theorist. He studied at the University of Manitoba and later immigrated to Israel. In 1975 he attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Recently he left Israel and relocated to Vancouver, Canada, while lecturing to religious and non-religious groups in Canada and the US. He now resides in St. Augustine, Florida, after marrying his second wife. - Nicholson Baker
Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is a contemporary American novelist, whose writings focus on minute inspection of the narrator's stream of thought. His unconventional novels deal with topics like voyeurism and planned assassination, but generally de-emphasize traditional aspects of plot. Baker's enthusiasts appreciate his ability to candidly explore the human psyche, … - John Hinckley Jr.
John Warnock Hinckley, Jr. (born May 29, 1955) attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. - Anna Lindh
Ylva Anna Maria Lindh was a Swedish Social Democratic politician who served as Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 until her murder in 2003. She previously served as Minister for the Environment from 1994 to 1998. Anna Lindh was married to Bo Holmberg, the Governor of Södermanland, with whom she had two sons, named David and Filip. - Anwar al Sadat
Anwar Al Sadat, officially Muhammad Anwar Al Sadat, Arabic: محمد أنورالسادات Muhammad 'Anwar as-Sādāt (December 25, 1918 - October 6, 1981) was the third President of Egypt, serving from October 15, 1970 until his assassination. He is considered to be one of the most important and influential Egyptian and Arab figures in modern history. - Alan Jackson
Alan Jackson was a United States broadcaster. He was the head anchor at CBS Radio News in New York City for over twenty-five years beginning during the Second World War, reading the 6:00 PM national evening news (then the network's main news program) and anchoring coverage of many of the major news headlines of the day. He anchored CBS News's coverage of the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944, of the joining of US and Soviet forces in April of 1945, … - Akhmad Kadyrov
Mufti Akhmat Abdulkhamidovich Kadyrov was the president of the Chechen Republic (elected on October 5, 2003). He was assassinated in Grozny stadium by a bomb blast under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade. - Kenn Thomas
Kenn Thomas is a conspiracy theorist, writer, university library archivist, and editor & publisher of "Steamshovel Press", a parapolitical conspiracy magazine. He has written books on the Inslaw affair, co-authoring "The Octopus" with the late Jim Keith, and on Fred Crisman and the Maury Island Incident. Thomas has authored over a dozen books on various conspiracy topics, including "NASA, Nazis & JFK"; "Maury Island UFO", … - Chris Hani
Chris Hani, born Martin Thembisile Hani (June 28, 1942 - April 10, 1993) was the leader of the South African Communist Party and Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). He was a fierce opponent of the apartheid government. He was assassinated on 10 April 1993. - George Moscone
George Richard Moscone (November 24, 1929-November 27, 1978) (pronounced "mos-"cone"-ee") was the mayor of San Francisco, California from January 1976 until his assassination in November 1978. - Archduke Franz Ferdinand Of Austria
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria-Este (December 18, 1863 - June 28, 1914) was an Archduke of Austria, Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, and from 1896 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne. His assassination in Sarajevo precipitated the Austrian declaration of war. This caused countries in alliances with the Austria and Serbia respectively to declare war on each other, starting World War I. - May Chidiac
May Chidiac (born 1964) is a Lebanese Christian Maronite journalist. Chidiac is a television journalist at the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation, where she was also one of the station's main television anchors until the assassination attempt on her life. She was one of the few critics of Syria's hegemony over Lebanon. Syria kept troops stationed in Lebanon even after the end of the Lebanese Civil War and the Taif accords which stipulated that Syria withdraw from Lebanon. - Caligula
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (August 31, 12 - January 24, 41), more commonly known by his nickname Caligula, was the third Roman Emperor and a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from 37 to 41. Known for his extreme extravagance, eccentricity, depravity and cruelty, he is remembered as a despot. He was assassinated in 41 by several of his own guards. - Mohammed Baqir Al-Hakim
Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim was one of the foremost Shia Muslim leaders in Iraq until his assassination in a bombing in Najaf. He was the son of Grand Ayatollah Sayed Muhsin al-Hakim Tabatabai
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