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.
This is a sketch of the unguarded door through which John Wilkes Booth entered just before he shot President Lincoln.
On the 22nd of November, 1963, Marina Oswald (who did not speak English well) signed an affidavit.
Elizabeth I signed her cousin's death warrant. This image depicts a segment of the only surviving copy of that death warrant.
Charles Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield, was put on trial for murder, commencing November 14, 1881.
The Warren Report summarizes testimony on what happened the day President Kennedy was fatally shot.
Although doctors searched for the derringer ball that killed Abraham Lincoln, they could not locate it with their probe. Something else had to happen ...
On the 17th of July, 1998, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, three of his children and four of the family's helpers were buried eighty years after they were...
President Lincoln was sitting in a red rocking chair when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. This image depicts that rocking chair.
Nikolai Sokolov, and his investigators, try to find the bodies of the Romanov family. Although he came close to the actual grave sites, Sokolov did n...
This is the Deringer John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.
When Lt. Col Tuan refused to teach saboteurs how to drive tanks, during the Vietnam War, those saboteurs murdered Tuan, then machine-gunned his wife, ...
President McKinley was shot by an anarchist. Why did he shoot the President?
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