{"id":14751,"date":"2014-05-27T09:23:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T08:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14751"},"modified":"2014-05-27T09:23:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T08:23:56","slug":"the-assassination-of-american-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14751","title":{"rendered":"The assassination of American presidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Bank Holiday weekend, as well as viewing the movie <em>&#8220;X-Men: The Days Of Future Past&#8221;<\/em> [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FilmsT-Y.html#XMen6\">here<\/a>] &#8211; which suggested that President Kennedy was shot because he was a mutant (!) &#8211; I attended a one-day course at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylit.ac.uk\">London&#8217;s City Lit<\/a> on the assassination of American presidents. It was led by Dr Dale Mineshima-Lowe, a clear speaker who made good use of video clips and gave us excellent handout material.<\/p>\n<p>Four US presidents have been assassinated:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Abraham Lincoln &#8211; On 14 April 1865, he was shot by the actor John Wilkes Booth and died the next day. More information <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abraham_Lincoln#Assassination\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>James Garfield &#8211; On 2 July 1881, he was shot\u00a0by Charles Guiteau and lingered until his death two and half months later. More information <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_A._Garfield#Assassination\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>William McKinley &#8211; On 6 September 1901, he was shot by Leon Czolgosz and died eight days later. More information <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_McKinley#Second_term_and_assassination\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>John F Kennedy &#8211; On 22 November 1963, he was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald and died immediately. More information <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_F._Kennedy#Assassination\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We discussed the conspiracy theories around each of these assassinations, but especially that of Kennedy. Apparently the latest theory around JFK&#8217;s death is that the fatal bullet was fired accidentally by a member of the secret service.<\/p>\n<p>We were told about Tecumseh&#8217;s Curse &#8211; otherwise known as the &#8216;Zero Year&#8217; Curse. Tucumseh was the Native American chief of the Shawnee tribe at the time of the Battle of Tippecanoe on 7 November 1811. The curse stated that the incumbent president William Harrison would die and after him, every great chief chosen every 20 years would also die. More information <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Curse_of_Tippecanoe\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We also discussed eight near misses of attempts to kill a president:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrew Jackson on 30 January 1835<\/li>\n<li>Theodore Roosevelt on 14 October 1912<\/li>\n<li>Franklin D Roosevelt on 15 February 1933<\/li>\n<li>Harry S Truman on 1 November 1950<\/li>\n<li>Gerald Ford on both 5 &amp; 22 September 1975<\/li>\n<li>Ronald Reagan on 30 March 1981<\/li>\n<li>Bill Clinton on 25 November 1996<\/li>\n<li>George W Bush on 10 May 2005<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Bank Holiday weekend, as well as viewing the movie &#8220;X-Men: The Days Of Future Past&#8221; [my review here] &#8211; which suggested that President Kennedy was shot because he was a mutant (!) &#8211; I attended a one-day course at London&#8217;s City Lit on the assassination of American presidents. 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