Quotes About Assassination

A tactic used by authors of virtually every single book I've ever read that propounds a conspiracy theory is to attack an agency as being part of a conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination, but when this same agency comes up with something favorable to the author's position, the author will cite that same agency as credible support for his argument.

Rumors are hard to prove, but they're even harder to disprove. We both know that character assassination is easy. All it takes is a suggestion. A well-placed word in someone's ear.

Dr. Irving Stone of the Institute for Forensic Sciences in Dallas. He's the guy who analyzed the clothing worn by President Kennedy and Governor Connally for the congressional committee that reexamined the Kennedy assassination.

Letters have been found with my name on assassination lists.

In the end, of course, Republicans ended slavery and permanently outlawed it through the Thirteenth Amendment. Democrats responded by opposing the amendment and a group of them assassinated the man they held responsible for emancipation, Abraham Lincoln.

Finally, even after Lee surrendered at Appomattox, a small group of Democrats made a last-ditch attempt to save their cherished institution by assassinating Lincoln.

Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.

He has abandoned his life to understanding that moment in Dallas, the seven seconds that broke the back of the American century.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.

Someone who could get up in the morning, make coffee, choose what to wear, and then go out and cold-bloodedly put a total stranger to death. Did you have to be some kind of anomalous, psychopathic freak to do that? Did you have to be born that way? Or could any woman, correctly programmed, be turned into a professional executioner?

Speedboats, made-up aristocratic titles, exploding dildos… You're not living in a fucking TV series, Villanelle.

Emperor Caligula wore a German wig, dyed the hair of Gallic prisoners in his triumphal procession to make them look like Germans, and had a bodyguard of Germans who were personally devoted to him, and who, when they heard of his assassination, in a fit of grief and rage tried to avenge his death by killing every one in sight.

There was one important exception, however: after Hitler secretly sent death squads to assassinate all his rivals in the Nazi Party — a bloodbath known as the Night of Long Knives — Stalin couldn't help but admire his enemy's ingenuity. "Did you hear what happened in Germany?" he gushed to an adviser. "Some fellow, that Hitler! Splendid! That's a deed of some skill!

In the first year and a half of Shostakovich's life, roughly 4,500 government officials were injured or killed in assassination attempts by radicals. In his toddler years, the government recorded 20,000 terrorist acts across the empire, with more than 7,500 fatalities.

History is littered with rulers and their rivals brought down by poison.

Darnley was assassinated.

Huntly had planned to attack the town, burn down the house where he was staying and assassinate Maitland in his sleep.

THE DAY BEFORE Darnley's assassination was one of the happiest Mary could remember.

One of Drury's finest contributions was to send a colored drawing of the assassination to Cecil.

one of the two most dramatic assassinations in Scottish and British history.

David [Rizzio], with the consent of the king, shall have his throat cut within these ten days.

Two letters would be about Darnley's murder

Assassination One

What we witnessed with the death of Kennedy was the triumph of television; what we saw with his assassination, and with his funeral, was the beginning of television's dominance of our culture-- for television is at its most solemnly self-serving and at its mesmerizing best when it is depicting the untimely deaths of the chosen and the golden. It is as witness to the butchery of heroes in their prime-- and of all holy-seeming innocents-- that televisions achieves its deplorable greatness.