1. James A. Garfield - 1881 President of the United States
Shot by disgruntled office-seeker Charles Guiteau

2. William Goebel - 1900 Governor of Kentucky
Assassinated by political opponents

3. Bill Gwatney - 2008 Chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party
Assassinated by Timothy Johnson for unknown reasons

4. John F. Kennedy - 1963 President of the United States
Assassinated by Communists sympathizer Lee Harvey Oswald

5. Robert F. Kennedy
U.S. Senator from New York and former U.S. Attorney General
Disgruntled Palestinian sympathizer Sirhan Sirhan

6. Abraham Lincoln - 1865 President of the United States
Assassinated by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth

7. Huey P. Long
U.S. Senator from Louisiana, and former Governor of Louisiana
Shot by political opponent Carl Weiss

8. Allard Lowenstein - 1980 Congressman from New York
Shot by deranged assassin Dennis Sweeney

9. William McKinley - 1901 President of the United States
Assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz

10. Harvey Milk - 1978 City Board of Supervisors of San Francisco
Assassinated by fellow Board member Dan White

11. George Moscone - 1978 Mayor of San Francisco
Assassinated by Board of Supervisors member Dan White

12. Leo Ryan - 1978 U.S. Congressman from California
Murdered while investigating the People’s Temple in Jonestown

13. Robert Vance - 1989 United States Federal Judge
Murdered by Walter Moody with a letter bomb

14. James E. Davis - 2003 New York City Councilman
Murdered by political rival Othniel Askew

15. Medger Evers - 1963 Civil Rights Activist
Murdered by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith

16. Malcolm X - 1965 Equal Rights and Black Muslim Advocate
Assassinated by rival Black Muslims

17. Martin Luther King, Jr. - 1968 Civil Rights activist and minister
Shot by white supremacist James Earl Ray

18. Don Bolles - 1978 Investigative Reporter for the Arizona Republic
Murdered with a car bomb while investigating the mafia

19. Joseph Smith
Founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Shot in a mob killing by anti-Mormon activists

20. John Roll - 2011 Federal Judge in Arizona
Killed by gunman in a Tucson attack that also gravely injured Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ)

21. Clementa Pinckney
Pastor and Member of the South Carolina Senate
Shot and killed by a white supremacist while attending a bible study activity

22. Assassinations around the World

23. Benazir Bhutto - 2007 Pakistani Politician, and former President
Assassinated by political opponents

24. Anna Lindh - 2003 Swedish Foreign Minister
Assassinated by mentally unstable Swedish man

25. Yitzhak Rabin - 1995 Prime Minister of Isreal
Murdered by opponents of his Palestinian peace initiatives

26. Indira Gandhi
Prime Minister of India
Shot by her bodyguards

27. Anwar Sadat - 1981 President of Egypt
Killed by political opponents in an attempted coup-de-tat

28. John Lennon - 1980 Member of the Beatles
Assassinated by the President of the Beatles’ Fan Club Mark David Chapman

29. Mohandas Gandhi - 1948 Political and Spiritual leader of India
Murdered by political opponents

30. Alexander Litvenenko - 2006
Former member of the Russian secret police
Poisoned by agents of the Russian government

31. Leon Trotsky - 1940 Soviet dissident and politician
Murdered in South America by the Russian government with an ice axe

32. Andrey Karlov - 2016 Russian Ambassador to Turkey
Shot by off-duty Muslim police officer while giving a speech at an art gallery

33. What’s the point? Why do assassinations occur?
What’s the difference between a crazed assassin and a hero who rids the world of a tyrant?
Is there any scenario in which an assassin is right?