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assassination

[uh-sas-uh-nay-shuhn] / əˌsæs əˈneɪ ʃən /








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"Neither Ivan nor I were explicitly told that we were the individuals whose names are concealed in the indictment against those accused of carrying out the assassination plot," Kasparov said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

An attorney for Caldwell disputed the findings, calling the allegations anonymous conjecture and character assassination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Next I headed west on Wilshire to the RFK Memorial I wrote about 10 months ago, near the site of the 1968 Bobby Kennedy assassination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Muscat, who was never linked to the murder, stepped down in January 2020 due to the political fallout from the assassination.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

A familiar modern example is the narrow failure, on July 20, 1944, of the assassination attempt against Hitler and of a simultaneous uprising in Berlin.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Vietnam, inner-city riots, and the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. had cast a pall over the Day-Glo optimism of the Love Generation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Unlike so many retellings of famous assassinations, attempted or otherwise, Harron’s movie gets to the heart of its subject’s discontent without dwelling on dramatizations of Solanas’ fragile psyche.

From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026

"Well, you know, I've studied assassinations," Trump said.

From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026

It’s true that some presidents, like Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Gerald Ford, didn’t enjoy clear electoral boons after failed assassinations.

From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2026

Stanton believed that the Lincoln and Seward assassinations had exposed a Confederate plot to kill the leaders of the national government in an attempt to reverse the results of the Civil War.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson




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