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View historical footage and photographs surrounding Gavrilo Princip's assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand: historical footage and photographs.
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Learn about the U.S. government's prior knowledge of the military coup against and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
On November 1, 1963, South Vietnamese Pres. Ngo Dinh Diem was overthrown and killed...
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Listen as Dan Rather reports on the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby on November 24, 1963
Dan Rather reporting on the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby on November...
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assassination of Abraham Lincoln
The assassination of U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, April 14, 1865,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 3b49830u)
John F. Kennedy's presidential motorcade in Dallas
U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, riding in the back seat...
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assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan
Outside the Washington Hilton hotel after the assassination attempt on U.S. Pres....
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, duchess of Hohenberg
Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, duchess of Hohenberg, in...
Henry Guttmann Collection—Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Rafic al-Hariri memorial shrine
Memorial shrine to Rafic al-Hariri, former prime minister of Lebanon, who was assassinated...
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Boris Nemtsov
Flowers, condolence messages, and a memorial photograph marking the spot near Moscow's...
Ivan Sekretarev/AP Images
Aleksey Navalny
Demonstrators in Moscow protesting the detention of Aleksey Navalny, January 2021.
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Assassination of William McKinley
Leon Czolgosz assassinating U.S. Pres. William McKinley, 1901.
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James Garfield assassination attempt
Print showing the attempted assassination of U.S. Pres. James A. Garfield in July...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (cph 3a10265)
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