High-profile leaders are sometimes criminal targets. Take a look at some of history's most infamous assassinations (and assassination attempts), including the shooting deaths of four American presidents.
After resisting arrest, Oswald is caught at the Texas Theater.
Black men had to fight hard for the right to die for their country.
A long investigation, by the Warren Commission, officially concludes that Oswald acted alone in President Kennedy's murder.
Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, shoots and kills Oswald almost exactly 48 hours after the President's assassination.
In 1965 millions of black Americans in the south still could not vote.
Four male college students from historically black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College challenged segregation in public restaurants.
Calling for Americans to "bind up the nation's wounds," Lincoln has hopes for a reunited America. Soon after his second inaugural, however, Lincoln di...
Abraham Zapruder, a local Dallas businessman who is watching President Kennedy's motorcade in Dallas, records the entire shooting.
Does the United States know about the assassination of South Korea's President Diem before it happens?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the first major civil rights law since Reconstruction
This chapter describes the dark part of Argentina's history known as the Dirty War
An integrated group of whites and blacks, men and women traveled by bus throughout the south to test compliance with the ruling in Boynton v Virginia
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