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Name	Birthplace/ Date	National Ethnicity	Height	Marital Status	Ordinal Position	Traumatic Events of Childhood	Deaths in Family
Richard Lawrence	1803, England	Mental illness in familyEnglish parents, moved to US age 12		not married
John Wilkes Booth	May 10, 1838, Maryland	English parents	5'8" 160 lbs	many relationships, evidence that he had common-law wife & 2 children--(secretly) engaged to senator's daughter--had 7 photos of women in wallet when shot	9th of 10 (5th of 6 surviving)	"Mad tragedian" father-- famed actor-- gone often; scandal when father's first (un -divorced) wife came from England; family talented, secretive; fortune told at 14 predicted violent early death; after father's death, lived in extreme poverty. Young adulthood amid sectional unrest of border state.	Father, age 14
Charles Guiteau	Sept. 8, 1841 Illinois	American	"nervous squirrel like little man"	Divorced	3rd of 3		Mother, age 7
Leon Czolgosz	1873, Detroit	Polish parents		no associations with women	4th of 8	Turbulent time of labor unrest among immigrant workers	Mother, age 12
John Schrank	Mar. 5, 1876 Bavaria	German, came to US at age 13	short, roly-poly, pleasant looking little man	after death of sweet-heart, no associations with women	only child	Sent to live with aunt and uncle in Amer.	Mother, father, aunt, uncle, girlfriend
Giuseppe Zangara	Sept. 7, 1900 Italy	Italian, came to US age 23	5'0" 106 lbs	no associations with women; no friends at all	only child	When father remarried a widow w/6 daughters, he became isolated	Mother, age 2
Carl Weiss	Dec. 18, 1906 Baton Rouge	American		happily married	oldest of 3	Louisiana politics of era increasingly dominated by "Kingfish" political demagoguery
Oscar Collazo Griselio Torresola	1915 1927 Puerto Rico	Puerto Rican, both came to US, C after father's death, to work; T, at 18, to work for Nationalists;	both short, slightly built	both had fathered daughters before 1st marriages broke up; in NY both re-married to politically active women	C youngest of 14	Extreme poverty, both became embroiled in increasingly violent move-ment seeking independ-ence of Puerto Rico as a solution to its poverty, which they saw as due to economic servitude to US
Lee Harvey Oswald	Oct. 18, 1939 New Orleans	American	medium height, slight build	rocky 2 yr marriage bisexual(?) associations	3rd of 3		Father, before birth
James Earl Ray	Mar. 10, 1928 Illinois/Missouri border	American		casual re-lationships; a "loner"	1st of 9	extreme poverty, led to divorce; Ray went to live w/grand-mother at 14	young sister
Sirhan Sirhan	Mar. 19, 1944 Jerusalem	Jordanian (Pal-estinian) parents, came to US at age 14	5'5" 120 lbs	single	5th of 7	As a young child witnessed war first hand during Arab/Israeli conflict; when Jerusalem taken by Israel, family had to flee, becoming refugees for 9 yrs before coming to US, where father abandoned them and returned to Palestine	older brother (run over by a Zionist truck, swerving to avoid sniper, as he watched) sister to whom he was closest (died of leukemia when he was 20)
Arthur Bremer	Aug. 21, 1950 Milwaukee	American	short, heavyset	no successful relationships	4th of 5
Samuel Byck	Jan.30, 1930 Philadelphia	American (Jewish)	5'9" 225 lbs	failed marriage	oldest of 3	Father couldn't support family and he feared he was the same way
Lynette Fromme	1948 suburban LA	American	petite	part of Manson family	oldest of 3	Hippie in '60s turbulence; thrown out by father, found on beach by Manson
Sara Jane Moore	Feb. 13, 1930 Charleston, WV	American	short,slim, attractive when young; dumpy as middle aged woman	married 5 times 3 children (left w/her parents) 1 child she was raising w/4th husband	oldest of 5	one crisis after another
John Hinckley	May 29, 1955 Ardmore, OK	American	short, 160 lbs normal weight, tendency to overweight	obsessed w/actress Jody Foster, no real relationships	3rd of 3	house burned while mother was pregnant
Frank Corder	1956	American		recently divorced	2^nd of 2		Father died in 1993
Francisco Martin Duran	1968	American (Hispanic?)

Name	Behavioral Abnormalities	Mental/Emotional Impairments	Occupational Variance	Status Aspirations	Political Philosophy
Richard Lawrence	Normal childhood; several years of increasingly erratic behavior	Obviously psychotic--fits of hysterical laughter, many threats made against others	Housepainter--Claimed money was owed him through royal lineage	Aspired to be an artist--wanted to go to London to study landscape painting	Believed money was held in trust for him in bank. Jackson's campaign against bank thus affect him
John Wilkes Booth	Adored and spoiled as child for personality and wild good looks; passionate in all he pursued; undisciplined; slow learner but capable focused concentration; prodigious memory.	Mental illness in family --also alcoholism, into which he slipped as adult. Had secret family (also a family trait) in Richmond[?]	Some success as actor but untrained & passionate to the point of being dangerous; ;recognized his limit-ation as actor; lost voice for many months	Was loved by Southern audiences for who he was; wanted to be famous by his own merit; became a South-ern "agent" due to free passage North and South	Passionate involvement with Know Nothings (anti-immigrant society) from youth. Ardent identification with Cause of the Confederacy, the ideal of the aristocratic society built on black labor. Wrote treatise explaining motives.
Charles Guiteau	Speech impediment, for which he was whipped by father; unruly and annoying child, characterized as lazy, though quite intelligent	"Obviously delusional"; mental illness in family	Sometime lawyer, then evangelist; lived in commune for 6 years as young adult but had falling out with members; failed at everything	Aspired to edit theocratic daily paper; sought office from Garfield, on whose campaign he had "worked"	Stalwart of Stalwarts; wrote "address to the American People" explaining why the pres. had to die
Leon Czolgosz	Suffered the injustices of immigrant laborers at the turn of the century	Suffered nervous breakdown following massacre of miners attempting to unionize; political fanaticism	Factory worker during labor movement		Anarchist "workers party"; freedom, equality, dignity for the working classes
John Schrank	Didn't like to bathe; thus smelled bad	Began to withdraw following deaths of aunt/uncle	Saloon keeper, apt. manager, wanderer; lived on small inheritance		Wrote lengthy treatise on "four pillars" of Amer. govt., one of which was opposition to third term
Giuseppe Zangara	Stomach trouble (ulcer or psychosomatic) he blamed on manual labor as a child	Obsessed with hatred toward father, the wealthy, & the government	Bricklayer--lost everything during Depression	Consumed with anger against father for taking him out of school; blamed govt for loss of work	Hatred capitalist system, had hatred for all authority
Carl Weiss	married into family under virulent political attack by Long		Successful doctor		Hated Long's demagoguery, as well as personal attacks on wife's family
Oscar Collazo &Griselio Torresola	great poverty as children	Political fanaticism	C laborer; T never tried to find work	cause of Puerto Rico came first in everything	Puerto Rican nationalists
Lee Harvey Oswald	frequently alone as child while mother (very domineering) worked	Severely dyslexic	Menial jobs	wanted to be recognized for intelligence/political acumen	Avowed Marxist, in an ideal rather than Russian sense; wrote political treatise on "Athenian" govt
James Earl Ray	typical southern "poor white" stock	Low IQ	Odd jobs; habitual offender	At time of assass-ination, his life revolved around the fact that he'd escaped from Missouri Pen.	Shared the perspectives and prejudices of his class (poor southern white)
Sirhan Sirhan	Large family lived as refugees; children caught between excessively harsh father and excessively religious mother	Became involved in occult sciences/mind control, joined Rosicrucians, along w/Arab nationalist groups	Menial jobs	Desire to be a jockey ended with serious fall; flunked out of college due to sister's illness	Palestinian refugee anti-Israel
Arthur Bremer	Isolated due to withdrawn parents (mother was a foundling)	Intelligent but never socialized except through cheap porno mags	Odd jobs	Wanted to be a star, to do some-thing negative, destructive, successful; diary recorded literary aspirations	Contemptuous of life; believed in nothing; wanted to die
Samuel Byck	came to believe he had a mission to save society from the govt	Treatment for anxiety, depression; grew increasingly isolated	An assortment of low paying jobs	To open a small business	Believed he was a victim among victims of system
Lynette Fromme	grew up during '60s	No one, beginning with daddy, took her seriously (but Manson)	No job	Wanted to save Manson from prison	What ever Manson's vision entailed--esp. terrorism against polluters; wrote treatise on earth-rights
Sara Jane Moore	occult studies as child	Direction less, suffered from depression	Moved from job to job; married in an upwardly mobile way	Joined fringe of radical '60s; became FBI informant, then "double agent"	Wanted to be a left wing revolutionary
John Hinckley	child of wealthy oil executive, no friends, isolated from reality by parents' money & love	Direction less, suffered from depression, constructed fantasy world	Never seriously employed	Wanted to be a song writer	American Nazi leanings
Frank Corder	lived in Maryland	History of cocaine, alcohol abuse, brushes with the law	truck driver--honorably discharged from army for "lackluster performance"	wanted to be a pilot--expressed admiration for pilot who landed plane in Red Square	Antipathy toward president well known
Francisco Martin Duran	lived in Colorado	Reported missing, told his wife he was going to do "something drastic" and would probably be killed	Dishonorable discharge from Army		Attended meetings of Save America Militia; had threatened president; had a truck filled with ammo;

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