assassination

Samuel J. Seymour was one of the approximately 1,700 people at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865, the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. He was also the last to live long...

Back when I was a kid and they taught American history, my class did a section on American Tall Tales and learned about Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill. Those of course were stories told around campfires and in cabins to...

Japanese prosecutors formally charged the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder, sending him to stand trial, a Japanese court said on Friday.Tetsuya Yamagami was arrested immediately after allegedly shooting Abe with a homemade...

Japanese prosecutors formally charged the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder, sending him to stand trial, a Japanese court said Friday.Tetsuya Yamagami was arrested immediately after allegedly shooting Abe with a homemade gun...

It sounded like something from a spy thriller: a ruthless Nazi hitman’s mission to assassinate Winston Churchill is thwarted by a crack team of Soviet agents. The audacious plot to ‘murder’ the famed Prime Minister during the Second World War...

Speculations about the circumstances and motivations behind the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, rife at the time the tragedy occurred, have never stopped. While Kennedy’s murderer was declared soon after the assassination to have worked alone, one...

National Archives releases more than 11,000 classified JFK assassination filesPresident Joe Biden ordered the release of unredacted files on ThursdayMany had already been published with sensitive information redactedThe...

TOKYO -- A top police official on Saturday acknowledged possible security lapses that allowed an assassin to fire his gun into former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe while he was addressing a campaign rally, raising questions how could...