PRESIDENTIAL ASSASSINS
HIS324 - AMERICAN PROFILES


 
 
   The Impact of Cultural Factors
"The assassination, in the end, is a story about our uncertain grip on the world--a story exploded into life by a homeless man who himself could not grip things tightly and hold them fast, whose soul-scarred loneliness and rage led him to invent an American moment that echoes down the decades."


    Don DeLillo, author of Libra (a fictional account of the conspiracy to assassinate JFK)


 

"THE OPPOSITION PAPERS ARE TO BLAME. THEY CANNOT, MONTH IN AND MONTH OUT AND YEAR IN AND YEAR OUT, MAKE THE KIND OF UNTRUTHFUL OR BITTER ASSAULT THAT THEY HAVE MADE AND NOT EXPECT THAT BRUTAL VIOLENT NATURES WILL BE UNAFFECTED BY IT."


    THEODORE ROOSEVELT, from his Milwaukee Speech, made following the assassination attempt on his life.


 
 
 

WANTED FOR TREASON
Interrelationship of Cultural Violence and Political Assassination



 
 

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