assassination

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The market entirely shrugged off the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination, the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

He said: "We relatives call it a state assassination of our children, and all the people who were aboard that train… in which European country could this be possible?"

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

He was among five independent UN rights experts who sent a communication to the Indian government in 2024 to enquire about Nijjar's assassination.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

For baby boomers, the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

To make matters worse, riots erupted in the summer of 1964 in Harlem and Rochester, followed by a series of uprisings that swept the nation following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander