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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Photographs
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Type 1 Actors
Chapter 1: “Sic Semper Tyrannis”: Abraham Lincoln (1865)
Chapter 2: “I Killed the President for the Good of the Laboring People, the Good People. I Am Not Sorry For My Crime”: William McKinley (1901)
Chapter 3: “I Saw Murder—No, Not Murder, a Thousand Times Worse Than Murder—I Saw Anarchy Wave Its First Bloody Triumph in Idaho”: Frank Steunenberg (1905)
Chapter 4: “It All Happened So Rapidly. I Didn’t Really Know What the Hell Was Going On”: Harry S. Truman (1950)
Chapter 5: “RFK Must Die”: Robert F. Kennedy (1968)
Part II: Type 2 Actors
Chapter 6: “It’s Just That We Will Never Be Young Again”: John F. Kennedy (1963)
Chapter 7: “Whoever Dies in Project Pandora’s Box Will Be Directly Attributable to the Watergate Scandal”: Richard M. Nixon (1974)
Chapter 8: “The Security Was So Stupid. It Was Like an Invitation”: Gerald R. Ford (1975)
Chapter 9: “At Least Give Me the Chance, with This Historical Deed, to Gain Your Respect and Love”: Ronald Reagan (1981)
Part III: Type 3 Actors
Chapter 10: “I Have the Gun in My Hand. I Kill Kings and Presidents First and Next All Capitalists”: Anton Cermak (1933)
Chapter 11: “Looking Back on My Life, I Would Have Liked It If Society Had Protected Me from Myself”: George C. Wallace (1972)
Chapter 12: “I’ve Never Killed a Person Who Was Undeserving of It”: John H. Wood, Jr. (1979)
Part IV: Type 4 Actors
Chapter 13: “Let Me Go, Gentlemen—I Am Not Afraid—They Can’t Kill Me—I Can Protect Myself”: Andrew Jackson (1835)
Chapter 14: “I Shot the President as I Would a Rebel, If I Saw Him Pulling Down the American Flag. I Leave My Justification to God and the American People”: James A. Garfield (1881)
Chapter 15: “Lock Me Up; I Am the Man Who Shot the Mayor”: Carter Harrison, Sr. (1893)
Chapter 16: “I Don’t Know Whether You Fully Understand That I Have Just Been Shot; But It Takes More Than That to Kill a Bull Moose”: Theodore Roosevelt (1912)
Chapter 17: “He’s Been Controlling My Mind for Years. Now I’ve Put an End to It”: Allard K. Lowenstein (1980)
Chapter 18: “I Believe That for All Our Imperfections, We Are Full of Decency and Goodness, and That the Forces That Divide Us Are Not as Strong as Those That Unite Us”: Gabrielle Giffords (2011)
Part V: Unknown or Mixed Motives
Chapter 19: “Oh Lord, My God, Is There No Help for a Widow’s Son?”: Joseph Smith, Jr. (1844)
Chapter 20: “I Ask No Quarter and I Fear No Foe”: William Goebel (1900)
Chapter 21: “Every Man a King, but No One Wears a Crown”: Huey P. Long (1935)
Chapter 22: “I Live like a Man Who’s Already Dead”: Malcolm X (1965)
Chapter 23: “I May Not Get There With You. But I Want You to Know Tonight, That We as a People, Will Get to the Promised Land”: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968)
Chapter 24: “If You See Me as Your Savior, I’ll Be Your Savior. If You See Me as Your God, I’ll Be Your God”: Leo Ryan (1978)
Chapter 25: “We’ve Said All Along There Were Three Victims in This. Today Dan White Became the Third Victim”: George Moscone and Harvey Milk (1978)
Part VI: Conclusion
Afterword
Notes
References
Index
About the Author
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