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Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated

Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed by James Earl Ray outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The assassination sparked riots across the country.

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Robert Kennedy assassinated

Just a few hours after the close of the California Democratic primary, presidential hopeful Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy died a day later of his wounds.

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John Wilkes Booth killed

Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was shot and killed by federal troops near Bowling Green, Virginia.

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Lincoln assassinated

President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre in Washingon, DC, during a performance of Our American Cousin.

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At Lincoln’s death Johnson became president

Lincoln died at 7:22 a.m.; Andrew Johnson became president.

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James Garfield assassinated

President James Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881, by Charles J. Guiteau. Garfield died two months later on September 19, 1881.

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Chester Arthur became president

Chester A. Arthur became president upon James Garfield’s death.

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Medgar Evers murdered

Civil rights organizer and NAACP state field secretary Medgar Evers was assassinated outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi.

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Malcolm X assassinated

Radical black leader and former Nation of Islam minister Malcolm X was assassinated during a lecture in Harlem. Three Nation of Islam members were later convicted of the murder.

Charles J. Guiteau, “My Case” [poem], June 1, 1882 (Gilder Lehrman Collectio

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Charles Guiteau’s reasons for assassinating President Garfield, 1882

Charles Julius Guiteau employed the unusual defense of poetry to plead his innocence while on...