assassination Archives - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
by | Jul 8, 2022

Shinzo Abe, who served as Japan’s prime minister from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020, was assassinated on Friday by a gunman. Abe was giving a speech in support of a political candidate in the city of…

by | Jun 11, 2022

I recently got an email from Albert, a longtime reader of this fine publication, regarding the “unconditional release” of would-be Reagan assassin John Hinckley, who spent decades confined to a mental institution for trying to kill the 40th President of…

by | Jun 10, 2022

With the possible exception of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas, no Supreme Court nominee has suffered the kind of abuse heaped on Brett Kavanaugh during his 2018 confirmation. Senate Democrats, aided and abetted by major media outlets, tried to destroy…

by | Jan 16, 2022

The date was April 4, 1968. It was, of course, a day with bittersweet meaning on this day when we remember the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. On that date, King lost his life to an assassin. That same…

by | Aug 29, 2021

It transpired shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It should have been a great night for Bobby Kennedy, one of celebration. He had just achieved a grand political victory, having won California…

by | Oct 15, 2018

Since long before Brutus, Cassius, and their gang carved up Julius Caesar in 44 BC, political assassinations have been a favorite tool of revolutionaries, terrorists, and despots. People find assassinations to be endlessly — and not grimly — entertaining as…

by | Jun 19, 2017

On the eve of the summer theater festival season we can anticipate a revival of Shakespeare productions motivated by a heartfelt commitment to make theatergoers understand that when the bard had his various characters commit regicide, it was Donald Trump…

by | May 5, 2017

On May 13, 1981, shortly after 5:00 p.m., Pope John Paul II, the first non-Italian pope in 455 years, the first Slavic pope ever, and — to the great dismay of the Soviet Union — an intensely anti-communist Pole from…

by | Dec 20, 2016

The Russian ambassador to Turkey was assassinated this evening in a terrorist attack, apparently in retaliation for Russian intervention in Syria and Aleppo. Ambassador Andrey Karlov was speaking at an art gallery in Ankara when a Turkish gunman, clad in…

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