Today in military history: President Garfield is shot
On July 2, 1881, President Garfield was mortally wounded when he was shot only four months into his administration. His assailant, Charles Guiteau, was likely insane. He spent weeks stalking…
9 infamous KGB assassination attempts straight out of spy novels
It’s well known that the fearsome Soviet spy agency, the KGB, used brutal tactics to eliminate and intimidate rivals.
Legend has it that when Soviet diplomats were kidnapped by terrorists in Lebanon in the mid-1980s, KGB officers kidna…
Why JFK’s first coffin was buried at the bottom of the ocean
President John F. Kennedy was fatally wounded by a shot fired from the Texas book depository while on an official visit to Dallas Texas in 1963. His assassin was Marine…
Fidel Castro survived more than 600 CIA assassination attempts
In 2006, BBC’s Channel 4 aired a documentary film called, “638 Ways to Kill Castro” which detailed the more complex and outright bizarre ways the American Central Intelligence Agency attempted…
Why the South was actually fearful of President Lincoln’s assassination
When John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, he was acting in support of the South, of slavery, and his fervent belief that Lincoln was out…
George W. Bush survived an assassination attempt because of a red handkerchief
Of all the controversial policies and actions of the administration of President George W. Bush, the one that came closest to costing the president his life was his close relationship…
This is how Julius Caesar started a civil war
The title of Caesar and everything that it represents stems from the actions of a heroic man who had an undying thirst for advancement. That man, Julius Caesar, had a brilliant, tactical militant mind that he joined with the political shrewdness of …
Today in military history: Abraham Lincoln is shot
On April 14, 1865, five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse and effectively ended the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln was fatally shot by John…
Norway and Iran tussle over alleged assassination plot
Norway summoned the Iranian ambassador in Oslo on Nov. 1, 2018, to protest a suspected assassination plot against an Iranian Arab opposition figure in Denmark that allegedly involved a Norwegian citizen of Iranian origin.
Denmark said on Oct. …
This anti-Putin journalist faked his own death to out Russian assassins
Arkady Babchenko, a Russian journalist who is a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, was reported to be assassinated on…