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Assassination of JFK
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible for a 10-mile motorcade through the streets of downtown. In 1978 the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded in a preliminary report that Kennedy was "probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy" that may have involved multiple shooters and organized crime. -
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Assassinations in the 60s
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Assassination of Malcolm X
At age 39, the former Nation of Islam leader, Malcolm X, was shot and killed by assassins (identified as Black Muslims) as he was about to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Harlem. -
Assassination of MLK Jr.
At 6:01 p.m. civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was hit by a sniper's bullet. King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when, without warning, he was shot and later pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. -
Assassination of Robert Kennedy
Popular Democratic Party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy waited all day for the election results to come in from the Democratic primary in California.As Kennedy travelled to a party after recieving the results, 24-year-old, Palestinian-born Sirhan Sirhan stepped up to Robert Kennedy and opened fire with his .22 pistol. He was rushed to the hospital and at 1:44 a.m. Robert Kennedy died from his wounds at age 42.
