ASSASSINATIONS

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AMERICAN ASSASSINATIONS OF THE 20th CENTURY

• September 6, 1901 William McKinley, President of the United States Leon Czolgosz Czolgosz shot McKinley while he was shaking hands at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Didn't die until September 14.
• December 30, 1905 Frank Steunenberg, Governor of Idaho Harry Orchard Killed by a mining company informant in an attempt to cast blame on a labor union
• March 6, 1933 Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago Giuseppe Zangara Disputed; suspected of striking Cermak instead of intended target President-elect Franklin Roosevelt
• September 8, 1935 Huey Long, U.S Senator from Louisiana Carl Weiss Long attended the State Capital building to help pass "House Bill Number One". Long was able to help get the bill to pass. After the meeting, Carl Weiss, the son-in-law of Long's long-time opponent, Judge Benjamin Henry Pavy, confronted Long, pulled out a handgun and shot Long in the abdomen. Weiss was shot and killed by Long's bodyguards. Long died two days later.
• January 11, 1943 Carlo Tresca, anarchist organizer
• August 28, 1955 Emmett Till Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam
• June 12, 1963 Medgar Evers, U.S. civil rights activist.[5] Byron De La Beckwith Evers, an African American activist and NAACP leader, was shot by De La Beckwith, a Ku Klux Klan member, who was convicted in 1994.
• November 22, 1963 John F. Kennedy, President of the United States Lee Harvey Oswald [9] Shot in the back and head by Lee Harvey Oswald via sniper while travelling in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, three shots rang out when the car was in front of the Texas School Book Depository. The first shot missed, while the second shot hit Kennedy in the back. The third shot hit Kennedy in the head, killing him instantly. Texas governor John Connally was also wounded. Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby two days later. Kennedy is the most recent President of the United States to be assassinated.
• February 21, 1965 Malcolm X, black Muslim leader Norman 3X Butler, Thomas 15X Johnson, Talmadge Hayer Killed in a Manhattan banquet room as he began a speech.
• August 25, 1967 George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party John Patler, a former aide Shot in the chest as he was leaving a laundromat.
• April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr., U.S. civil rights activist.[5] James Earl Ray [10] Ray pleaded guilty but later recanted, while a 1999 civil trial convicted Jowers and 'unknown others', while also noting that 'governmental agencies were parties' to the plot.[11] See Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• June 5, 1968 Robert F. Kennedy, American politician, who served as a United States Senator for New York and leading Democratic presidential candidate in 1968. Sirhan Sirhan Shot after giving a speech after winning the California primary. Died 26 hours later on June 6. Sirhan was convicted on April 17, 1969, and less than a week later was sentenced to death.[12] The sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1972 after the California Supreme Court, in its decision in California v. Anderson, invalidated all pending death sentences imposed in California prior to 1972.
• 1973 Marcus Foster, School District Superintendent in Oakland, CA Donald DeFreeze, Joe Remiro and Russ Little Killed by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army
• June 30, 1974 Alberta Williams King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr., and Edward Boykin, church deacon Marcus Chenault Killed while her husband was preaching.
• September 21, 1976 Orlando Letelier, Chilean ambassador to the United States for the administration of Chile's democratically elected President Salvador Allende Michael Townley Killed along with his American assistant, Ronni Moffitt, by a car bomb placed by Chilean DINA agents.
• November 27, 1978 Harvey Milk, San Francisco Supervisor, first openly gay elected official in the US, and gay rights activist, and George Moscone, mayor of San Francisco Dan White, former San Francisco Supervisor who opposed Milk's advocacy See Moscone–Milk assassinations
• December 8, 1980 John Lennon, British musician, member of The Beatles Mark David Chapman Shot and killed by Mark David Chapman multiple times. Chapman was a former fan of Lennon's band, until when Lennon said that they were more famous than Jesus. See Assassination of John Lennon.
• June 18, 1984 Alan Berg, radio talk-show host Jean Craig, David Lane, Bruce Pierce, and Richard Scutari Killed by members of the white nationalist group The Order.
• October 15, 1984 Henry Liu, Taiwanese-American writer Wu Tun and Tung Kuei-sen Allegedly killed by Kuomintang agents
• 1985 Alex Odeh, Arab anti-discrimination group leader Killed when bomb exploded in his Santa Ana, California office
• 1986 Alejandro González Malavé, undercover policeman Killed in Bayamón
• August 22, 1989 Huey Newton, founder of Black Panther Party Tyrone Robinson Killed by member of Black Guerrilla Army (BGA).
• 1990 Meir David Kahane, Member of the Israeli Knesset, Founder of the JDL and the Kach Party, Zionist El Said Nosair Killed by an Arab gunman in a Manhattan hotel, El Said Nosair who was found guilty of conspiracy charges linking him to Sheik Abdul Rahman, "the blind sheik", Al Qaeda's point man in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Kahane's assassination was Al Qaeda's first act of terror on US soil.
• 1991 Ioan P. Culianu, Romanian historian of religion, culture, and ideas Killed at the University of Chicago where he taught at the Divinity School Swift Hall, allegedly because of opposition to his writings.
• 1993 David Gunn, abortion provider Michael F. Griffin Shot outside his clinic. See Murder of David Gunn.
• 1994 John Britton, physician, abortion provider Paul Jennings Hill Shot at his clinic.
• September 13, 1996 Tupac Shakur, rapper Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson Shot in Las Vegas.
• March 9, 1997 Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace, rapper Shot in Los Angeles.
• October 23, 1998 Barnett Slepian, physician, abortion provider James Charles Kopp Shot in his kitchen.
• July 15, 1997 Gianni Versace Andrew Cunanan Shot on his home's front steps in Miami