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Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States, who held the Union together through civil war
Jackie Kennedy
First Lady whose grace under catastrophe defined a generation's image of the American presidency
James Garfield
20th President of the United States, who was killed not by a bullet but by his doctors
John F. Kennedy
35th President of the United States, 1961–1963
Medgar Evers
NAACP Field Secretary in Mississippi, Assassinated June 12, 1963
Robert F. Kennedy
Attorney General, Senator, and presidential candidate assassinated in 1968
William McKinley
25th President of the United States, who led America into empire and was killed for it
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Dallas
The city where Kennedy was killed and the Sun Belt came of age
Events
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Assassination of James Garfield
The 1881 shooting that ended a presidency and broke the spoils system
Assassination of JFK
The Murder of a President, Dallas, November 22, 1963
Assassination of Lincoln
The murder of Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, April 1865
Assassination of Malcolm X
The 1965 killing of a defining voice of Black radicalism
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
The 1968 killing that convulsed the nation and the movement
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
The 1968 murder that silenced a generation's hope
Assassination of William McKinley
The 1901 murder that handed the presidency to Theodore Roosevelt
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