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Although there have been numerous assassination plots and attempts, there have only been four successful presidential assassinations in the history of the U.S. Today I’ll be comparing and contrasting two different president killers: John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald. They lived almost a century apart, but still have many similarities. Lee and John basically did the same crime, assassinating a U.S President, however, they have numerous differences.

“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another” (Doyle). Assassinations have taken place countless times throughout history. Anyone can get assassinated, but political leaders have to worry the most since so many leaders have been killed in the past. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Brutus and Cassius (along with the other conspirators) murder Julius Caesar. Although this is just a play, it is very relevant to real life. One situation similar to this Is the JFK assassination. Both situations (Caesar and JFK) are similar in that someone was killed, and it ended poorly for the assassin(s).

After the assassination of John F. Kennedy, there were a lot of conspiracies regarding the mastermind behind the assassination. President Kennedy was assassinated due to him seeking a way out of the Cold war and starting negotiations with Soviet Union. Charlene Fitsimmons, a friend of JFK was told by an agent named Gary Underhill that he was killed by CIA and that Oswald was a CIA agent. He was helped and was set up by CIA to go for it. According to Gary, there were clear evidences of how they made their way through and he couldn’t believe that they got away with it but they did.

John Wilkes Booth was the murderer of the sixteenth president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. With the nation divided and the Confederacy falling apart, Booth murdered Washington in hope that the confederavy would have a second chance. John Wilkes Booth did not accomplish his goal because was caught and was not help the confederacy change the course of the war. Firstly, John Wilkes Booth was later caught and killed.

The United States would not be the same today if Abraham Lincoln was never assassinated on the unfortunate night of April 14, 1865. His killer, John Wilkes Booth, had a strong resent for the Union that subsequently caused a dramatic shift in history. This hatred was caused by many factors, such as his background and where he grew up, his lust for power and fame, and his mental illness. John Wilkes Booth, a master assassinator and conspirator, hoped to strengthen the confederacy by killing Abraham Lincoln. However, this murder created an even stronger opposition to the South than ever before.

There have been numerous attempts of assassinations on seating presidents of the United States. There have been about 20 attempts to kill not only sitting presidents but also sitting presidents, and also president-elects. Among the presidents, gunshot has killed them Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy. Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan are United States Presidents that were injured during assassination attempts. All the other presidents of America from John Kennedy have gone through attempts of assassinations. The majority of this assassination cases are connected to political ambitions with some cases being connected to political gains (Clerk, 2007). In this paper, the assassination of James Garfield and John F. Kennedy will be covered.

Killing Lincoln is a book written to inform readers about President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. The book begins by introducing the President and his assassin. It focuses on the American Civil War and the various battles and wars during this time. Was lasted for four years under President Lincoln’s term. Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, has always had an extreme amount of hatred towards Lincoln. His original plan was to kidnap Lincoln, but as he evaluated his plan, he realized kidnaping wasn’t enough. Lincoln had to be killed. The main idea of the book is to inform and entertain readers with the action and conspiracy of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Bill O’Reilly goes into substantial detail, and explains all of the days leading up to Lincoln’s death. He details every day, and when

Looking at both side of the assassination gives the reader the normal idea that everyone has---the idea that whatever the assassins had in mind were wrong and that assassination the president was a wrong doing that could not be condoned as well as the side of the assassins; which looks into how they think and the reasons they do it for.

One of the most tragic moments in U.S. history happened before the naked eye. John F. Kennedy’s brutal assassination. Lee Harvey Oswald was the suspected assassin, but why would a former U.S marine kill the president of the country he went to war for? Assassination means murdered for political reasons. I believe that Kennedy’s assassination was part of a much bigger plot, carried out by more than just one lone assassin, and was planned well prior. Oswald was just an easy mark to pin the crime on, he was set up, “...most likely by the CIA,who he was speculated to be a member of.”(Morley) Kennedy wanted to help poor people and wanted to help improve government health facilities, schools and houses, and he was murdered for it, what would one lone man’s motive be to kill someone that only wanted to better this country? There was there a much bigger picture.

John Wilkes Booth is often the first person who comes to mind when one thinks about the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. However, most people are unaware that this assassination was a larger conspiracy. Booth had at least four other known co-conspirators, and many scholars argue whether or not Booth was the only conspirator, or if all of them planned the assassination together and each had different roles. Others say Vice President Andrew Johnson had a vendetta against Lincoln because of their skewed views. Several conspiracy theories have developed since 1865 when the assassination took place, but only three to four of those theories are feasible and researched heavily.

Throughout American, history there have been multiple assassination on presidents of the United States. There is one assassination that is intriguing, the murder of John F. Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy’s assassination is known throughout American history. There is controversy whether this assassination was justified or unjustified. John F. Kennedy’s assassination is unjustified because murder is wrong and he had a family. Though they may or may not have been a reason for Oswald to kill JFK there is no right in murdering someone.

“Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment.” These are the words that John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, wrote in his diary after his crime. The sources used were Chasing Lincoln’s Killer, biography.com, and Booth’s diary. He felt that he had reasoning for killing Lincoln. There were many factors that motivated Booth to kill Abe Lincoln.

On March 17th, John Wilkes Booth met with George Atzerodt, David Herold, and Lewis Paine at a Washington bar to plan the assassination of the president ("John Wilkes," n.d.). But, after the South surrendered to the union, the schemers had to change their plan ("John Wilkes," n.d.). The plan was then altered to not only killing Lincoln, but killing Vice president Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of state William Seward ("John Wilkes,"

It's not everyday a person wakes up with the goal of killing an important figure in society. That's why there is so much attraction towards the mystery of assassination attempts and successes. When analyzing a murder, the most common conclusion to the crime is a longing for something better. Caesar's assassins wanted a better life, country, and ruler. John Hinckly Jr. only wanted Jodie Foster, which lead to the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagen. In both cases, the "better" that the killers wanted only offered more trouble than that which was around in the first place.

Political assassination is defined as the act of killing a political figure mainly for political reasons. In most cases, the motive behind political assassinations is beyond the person who is killed. Assassinations have been rampant across the globe for ages and these assassinations do cause lots of political instabilities in a country especially when key personalities such as heads of states are the victims. In this essay, we shall discuss some of the major assassinations which occurred in history. These personalities include John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, Julius Caesar and Robert F. Kennedy.