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Quotes About Assassination

All experienced murderers seek cover. By putting the Agency's fingerprints on [Mafia] operations, the mob could anticipate that the CIA would [be forced to] cooperate in the cover-up of crucial information related to JFK's assassination
~ Lamar Waldron
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
~ Lance Morrow
In 1970, a superior Court judge issues an order forcing the desegregation of Los Angeles schools. The judge survives an assassination attempt and loses his job in the next election.
~ James Frey
The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
~ Ben Affleck
Lincoln died from a bullet to the head while he sat next to his wife in the Ford Theatre. Kennedy died from a bullet to the head while he sat next to his wife in a Ford car.
~ Terry Deary
I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln.
~ Sarah Vowell
What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.
~ Nikki Sixx
Obama's global drone assassination campaign, a remarkable innovation in global terrorism, exhibits the same patterns. By most accounts, it is generating terrorists more rapidly than it is murdering those suspected of someday intending to harm us—an impressive contribution by a constitutional lawyer on the eight hundredth anniversary of Magna Carta, which established the basis for the principle of presumption of innocence that is the foundation of civilized law.
~ Noam Chomsky
Of all people, only Mr. King came close to exposing the true magic of black people," Arabella explained. "For many years we debated killing him for our own protection." Miss Josephine listened in amazement. "Blacks killed Martin Luther King Jr.?" Arabella scowled. "Not Doctor King . . . ," she exclaimed. "We hired a man to kill Stephen King. Unfortunately the assassin was inept, and the intended hit-and-run was a failure.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Segun la visión ortodoxa neoliberal, el socialismo se derrumbó y murió bajo sus propias contradicciones. Pero... no podriamos imaginar una posibilidad alternativa, la de que el socialismo no se derrumbó sino que fue derribado al suelo a porrazos, y que no murió sino que lo asesinaron?
~ Coetze, J.M.
JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN THE four dead men were lined up on the living room floor of the safe house. Mitch Rapp started with the one on the left. The bearded face, the dark, lifeless eyes, and the dime-sized bullet hole
~ Vince Flynn
I have to admit that I thought Gould had a good chance to take you out. I mean, if not him, who? He's one of the top private contractors in the world and he already blew the crap out of your wife and kid." Rickman's face broke into a wide grin as Rapp's darkened. He wished the son of a bitch really could come back to life. Because then he could kill him again.
~ Vince Flynn
She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.
~ Larry Hagman
Events moved on, and in July 1579, Elizabeth was nearly assassinated as she traveled on a barge along the Thames.
~ Laurence Bergreen
If we don't allow presidential impeachment, warned Benjamin Franklin, then the only recourse for abuse of power will be assassination.
~ Laurence H. Tribe
As I learned the ropes I learned that for many good and sound reasons the bosses and the captains sent a guy to whack you who was your friend. The obvious factor was that the shooter could get close to you in a lonely spot.
~ Charles Brandt
Giancana was taken care of in his kitchen in the back of the head and then under the chin six times, Sicilian style, to signify he was careless with his mouth. It looked like it was done by some old friend that was close enough to him to be frying sausages in olive oil with him. Russell often said to me: "When in doubt have no doubt.
~ Charles Brandt
refused." "Two of us were assigned to kill you that summer. It was the first
~ Gregg Hurwitz
José Antonio Zorrilla, director de la Federal de Seguridad, manda matar a Manuel Buendía, de quien se reputa amigo, para evitar que Buendía publique qué comandantes de la Federal de Seguridad protegen a los narcos.
~ Héctor Aguilar Camín
The best illustrated histories of the assassination are Twenty Days by Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt Jr., and Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution by James L. Swanson and Daniel R. Weinberg. Twenty Days contains more than three hundred black-and-white photos of the people and places connected to the assassination and Lincoln's funeral.
~ James L. Swanson
On April 17 Jefferson Davis was still on his way to Charlotte. Seventy-two hours after Lincoln's assassination, he still had no idea that Lincoln had been murdered.
~ James L. Swanson
The reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is they think 'conspiracy' means everybody's on the same program. That's not how it works. Everybody's got a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebody's wife.
~ James Lee Burke
He's millions in debt. He hasn't stopped drinking and gambling since his father was assassinated." Brilliantly assassinated, Plagueis thought.
~ James Luceno