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Newspaper headlines from Senator Bobby Kennedy's assassination (1968)

News headlines from when Senator Bobby Kennedy was shot (1968)

Senator Robert F. Kennedy died 25 hours after he was shot by an assassin. Bobby Kennedy succumbed to extensive brain damage caused when his assassin fired eight shots at point-blank range.

Martin Luther King Jr slain by lone Memphis assassin (1968)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Nobel Peace Prize winner who made nonviolence his chief weapon in the fight for civil rights, was shot to death here last night as he stood on a balcony outside his motel room.

The assassination of President Kennedy (1963)

Above: View of flowers on the backseat of Vice-President Lyndon Johnson's Lincoln convertible as it sits parked near the entrance of Parkland Hospita... Click to read more...

Death of an outlaw: First account of Jesse James’ murder (1882)

Get the true story behind 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' from 1882 -- when, Jesse James, the Missouri outlaw, was killed by a boy twenty years old at his temporary residence on Thirteenth and Lafayette streets, in this city.

Abraham Lincoln assassinated: Official accounts of the President’s murder (1865)

Last evening at about 9:30 p.m., at Ford's Theatre, the President was shot by an assassin who suddenly entered the box and approached behind the President. The pistol-ball entered the back of the President's head, and penetrated nearly through the head. The wound is mortal.

Kennedy just before he was killed - 1963

President John F Kennedy slain on Dallas street (1963)

A sniper shot and killed President John F Kennedy on the streets of Dallas Friday. A 24-year-old pro-Communist who once tried to defect to Russia was charged with the murder shortly before midnight.

President Kennedy’s assassination: Zapruder footage (1966)

Although President John F Kennedy's assassination occurred on November 22, 1963, the article below was published on the third anniversary of his death... Click to read more...

Aftermath of Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination (1968)

The assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr triggered violence across the nation back in 1968.

Attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan (1981)

1981: President Reagan was wounded in the chest by a gunman, John Hinckley Jr, who tried to assassinate him with a burst of .22-caliber bullets

John Fitzgerald Kennedy: 1917-1963

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States by Laura Bergquist, LOOK Senior Editor From the fizzy early takeoff of the New ... Click to read more...

Death found Kennedy from this window (1963)

Death found him from this window From this grimy warehouse window ledge of the Texas School Book Depository, the assassin shot President Kennedy. ... Click to read more...

Jackie Kennedy: “It is nearly a year since he has been gone” (1964)

It is nearly a year since he has been gone. On so many days -- his birthday, an anniversary, watching his children running to the sea -- I ... Click to read more...

The FBI update on JFK’s death (1977)

Here's an excerpt of a news story about one the country's most infamous true crime sagas: the assassination of President John F Kennedy. Time magazine... Click to read more...

$100,000 reward for apprehension of Lincoln’s murderer (1865)

War Department, Washington, April 20, 1865 $100,000 Reward! The Murderer of our Late Beloved President, Abraham Lincoln is still at large $50,00... Click to read more...

John Wilkes Booth’s acting career (1863)

John Wilkes Booth was already well-known years before committing the deed -- the 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln-- that truly ensured ... Click to read more...

Lee Harvey Oswald’s Dallas police info (1963)

Here are Lee Harvey Oswald's mugshots and fingerprints, all taken in Dallas the day after he shot President John F Kennedy (and the day before Oswald ... Click to read more...

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