Assassinations Documents

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 page two of the letter to President Lincoln, from Frederic Bates, warning of an assassination plot. Bates had apparently overheard a discussi...

Among President Lincoln's papers, which are maintained at the Library of Congress, is a letter warning the President of an assassination plot against ...

On the 6th of December, 1963, Johnny Calvin Brewer signed a sworn statement regarding his sighting and tracking of Lee Oswald the afternoon of Preside...

Image of the newspaper announcing the death of Archduke Ferdinand.

This image depicts the arrest warrant of Lee Harvey Oswald.

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