Assassination

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Assassination

• 7th Grade History

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Assassination

• Definition the targeted killing of a specific
  individual.
• Normally for political, military, ideological or
  religious reasons.

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History of Assassins

• The word Assassin comes originally from an
  Arabic group called the Hashshashin. They were a
  group of expert soldiers who targeted Christian
  Crusaders in the Middle East during the 8th to
  the 14th Centuries.
• East Asian societies associated assassins with
  the trained soldiers known as Ninjas. Ninjas
  were paid mercenaries who targeted powerful
  Japanese warlords and shoguns.

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Modern Assassinations

• Most often, modern assassinations and
  assassination attempts have political or
  ideological motivations.
• Presidents or prominent leaders are often the
  targets of most assassination attempts.

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Famous Assassinations 1900-Now

• Archduke Francis Ferdinand World War I
• Admiral Yamamoto World War II
• Adolf Hitler World War II (Numerous Attempts)
• Mahatmas Gandhi Indian Leader
• Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Movement
• Malcolm X Civil Rights Movement

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Presidential Assassinations

• Abraham Lincoln (1865)
• John Wilkes Booth at Fords Theater
• James Garfield (1881)
• Charles Guiteau shot him in Washington DC
• (Died 11 Weeks later of infections)
• William McKinley (1901)
• Leon Czolgosz at the Pan American Expo
• John F. Kennedy (1963)
• Lee Harvey Oswald Shot in Dallas Texas

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Presidential Assassination Attempts

• Andrew Jackson (1835)
• Abraham Lincoln (1861)
• Theodore Roosevelt (1912)
• Franklin Roosevelt (1933)
• Harry Truman (1950)
• John F. Kennedy (1960)
• Richard Nixon (1974)

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Presidential Assassination Attempts Continued

• Gerald Ford (1975, 1975, 1976)
• Jimmy Carter (1979)
• Ronald Reagan (1981)
• George H. W Bush (1993)
• Bill Clinton (1994, 1994)
• George W. Bush (2001, 2005)
• Barack Obama (2008)

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Timeline

• Use the graph paper to create a timeline of
  Presidential Assassination Attempts.
• What is your scale? What does one block
  represent? One year? Five years? A decade?
• Make sure you label your attempts.

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Exit Cards

• Why do you think so many attempts have been made
  on the life of the President of the United
  States? Why arent they successful?