Most political assassination attempts have little or nothing to do with politics. John Hinckley Jr shot Republican Ronald Reagan but had earlier stalked Democrat Jimmy Carter. I read an account that he also once targeted Democrat Edward Kennedy. Arthur Bremer shot Democrat George Wallace but had earlier followed Republican Richard Nixon.
These conspiracy theories are part of the price that we have to pay for living in a free society. The only way to be free of "fake news", or bizarre conspiracy theories, is to give someone the power to decide for us what is and isn't worthy of attention. But then that person would have the power of a dictator and we would no longer be free.
It is interesting that the Book of Revelation, Chapter 13, explains that there will be an assassination attempt on the Antichrist. It seems that he will suffer a deadly wound but will apparently come back to life.
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The red dot shows the position of the shooter on the rooftop when the shots were fired. The white dot shows the position of Donald Trump when hit by the bullet.
This is the site of the John F. Kennedy Assassination. The vantage point is where Kennedy was struck looking back at the building, to the left, from where the shots were fired.
Within three years of the Kennedy Assassination the modern era of mass shootings began, also by a sniper in a high position, from the tower of the University of Texas.
What I have never seen pointed out about the Kennedy Assassination is that not far away lived an eight-year-old boy named John Hinckley Jr. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was himself assassinated two days later, as he was being moved through the garage of the police station. The gunman, Jack Ruby, waited for Oswald while pretending to be a reporter. Eighteen years later Hinckley would adopt Jack Ruby's tactic while waiting to shoot Ronald Reagan. This is the site of the attempted assassination of Reagan, outside the Hilton in Washington.
Does anyone remember Marcus Sarjeant? If you don't that's a good thing because the gun that he fired at Queen Elizabeth when she was riding a horse along the Mall wasn't a real gun. It was a racing starter pistol. Here is the site of it.
Not far from here is the site of the assassination of William McKinley, in 1901. He was visiting what was then the Pan Am Exhibition, in Buffalo.
THE LINCOLN-KENNEDY PARALLELS
The two most discussed assassinations of American presidents are of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy and there are some amazing parallels between the two.
Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846 and to the presidency in 1860. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946 and to the presidency in 1960.
Both were succeeded by their vice-presidents named Johnson, born in 1808 and 1908.
Both assassins, John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, have 15 letters in their names. Both carried out the assassinations at their jobs, Booth at a theater and Oswald at a school textbook building. Both escaped before being caught and killed. John Wilkes Booth was a Confederate sympathizer while Lee Harvey Oswald was named for Robert E. Lee.
Lincoln was assassinated at the Ford Theater. Kennedy was assassinated in a Lincoln car, made by Ford, and had a secretary named Lincoln.
Both were shot in the back of the head, with their wives by their side, on a Friday.
Lincoln's assassin ran out of the theater where the assassination had taken place. Kennedy's assassin ran into a theater, where he was captured.
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