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A collection of articles related to presidential assassinations.
The following article on the Alphabet Bomber is an excerpt from Mel Ayton's Hunting the President: Threats, Plots, and Assassination Attempts—From FDR to Obama. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Perhaps the most dangerous threatener during the Ford years was a twenty-eight-year-old Yugoslavian immigrant Muharem Kurbegovic. The Secret…
The following article on attempts at the Nixon assassination is an excerpt from Mel Ayton's Hunting the President: Threats, Plots, and Assassination Attempts—From FDR to Obama. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Nixon Assassination Threats More than a hundred people each year were detained by agents and uniformed…
The following article on Samuel Byck is an excerpt from Mel Ayton's Hunting the President: Threats, Plots, and Assassination Attempts—From FDR to Obama. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Samuel Byck was one of those rare would-be assassins who make direct threats against the president before putting…
The following article on Robert F. Kennedy assassinated is an excerpt from Mel Ayton's Hunting the President: Threats, Plots, and Assassination Attempts—From FDR to Obama. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The risk of assassination faced by Johnson diminished in his final two years as president. As opposition…
The following article on Robert Watts is an excerpt from Mel Ayton's Hunting the President: Threats, Plots, and Assassination Attempts—From FDR to Obama. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. President Johnson’s efforts to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act attracted threats from race-hate…
The following article on LBJ's personality is an excerpt from Mel Ayton's Hunting the President: Threats, Plots, and Assassination Attempts—From FDR to Obama. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. President Lyndon B. Johnson had a notoriously caustic personality. He famously bullied senators into falling in line on votes…
The following article on the conspiracy theory that LBJ killed Kennedy is an excerpt from Mel Ayton's Hunting the President: Threats, Plots, and Assassination Attempts—From FDR to Obama. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. According to Secret Service Director James Rowley, LBJ faced a greater threat than…
The following article addressing the question of why was JFK assassinated is an excerpt from Mel Ayton's Hunting the President: Threats, Plots, and Assassination Attempts—From FDR to Obama. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. A question that has persisted for over fifty years is this: Why was…
The following article on what happened on November 22, 1963 is an excerpt from Mel Ayton's Hunting the President: Threats, Plots, and Assassination Attempts—From FDR to Obama. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. President Kennedy was assassinated during his Dallas trip when Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots…
The following article on JFK affairs is an excerpt from Mel Ayton's Hunting the President: Threats, Plots, and Assassination Attempts—From FDR to Obama. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. JFK's affairs were legendary within his Secret Service detail, and his agents were shocked at the way Kennedy put…
