Political Assassinations
- President
John F. Kennedy was assassinated
while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, on Friday, November 22, 1963.
Lee Harvey Oswald
was arrested and charged with the murder. Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby on
November 24, 1963, before Oswald could be tried. Ruby was convicted of Oswald's murder and
sentenced to death. He died in prison in 1967 while awaiting retrial.
- Senator
Robert F. Kennedy was shot at the Hotel Ambassador, Los Angeles, on June 4, 1968,
after winning the California Democratic Primary's nomination for the 1968 U.S.
presidential race. He died the next day. Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a Jordanian, was convicted
of the murder.
- Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, April 4, 1968. He was there because of a
labor dispute between Black sanitation workers and the city. James Earl Ray was convicted
of the murder.
- Viola Gregg Liuzzo, a Detroit
homemaker and mother of four, was a volunteer who drove civil rights marchers back to
Selma from Montgomery after the 1965 march. Ku Klux Klansmen shot her in the face killing
her.
- Malcolm X, who spent his childhood
in Lansing, was shot to death on Sunday, February 21, 1965, by several men as he spoke at
the Audubon Ballroom in New York City.
- While campaigning for the Democratic party's presidential nomination in Laurel,
Maryland, on May 15, 1972, George Wallace was shot
in an assassination attempt that left him partially paralyzed.
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