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.
Believing that presidential candidate César Gaviria Trujillo would be aboard Avianca Flight 203, on November 27, 1989, Pablo Escobar ordered that a b...
Every November 5th, as bonfires burn, Britain celebrates being saved from a national catastrophe when Guy Fawkes was discovered with 36 barrels of gun...
Among other items in President Lincoln's pockets, the night he was assassinated, was a Confederate 5-Dollar Bill.
Captain Cecil W. Stoughton took a series of 21 photographs during President Johnson's swearing-in on October 22, 1963.
As police officers were transferring Oswald to another jail, Jack Ruby (a local Dallas businessman) was among the watching crowd. This image depicts R...
James Benjamin Parker saw Leon Czolgosz approach President McKinley with a handkerchief in his hand. He then sprang into action.
The so-called "magic bullet," found on a stretcher (reportedly used by Governor Connally at Parkland Memorial Hospital), is shown here at high magnifi...
Johnny Calvin Brewer saw a man who seemed anxious to avoid the police. Brewer's instincts were right, since the man was Lee Harvey Oswald.
John Wilkes Booth died four hours after Sgt. Boston Corbett shot him at Garrett's farm.
President Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is a member of a famous acting family.
Judge John Roll, a controversial and influential Arizona jurist, dies heroically protecting another after being shot in a politcally charged rampage a...
The youngest of three boys, Lee Harvey Oswald never knew his father and rarely saw his mother since she had to work long hours to support the family.
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