Assassination

Here are entered works on the killing of an individual or individuals by private persons or groups. Works on the state-sanctioned killing of an individual or individuals are entered under Targeted killing.

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• Political crimes and offenses
• Political violence
• Murder

• Assassination -- United States
• Caesar, Julius -- Assassination
• Finucane, Patrick -- Assassination
• Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 -- Assassination
• Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination
• King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Assassination
• Kirov, Sergei Mironovich, 1886-1934 -- Assassination
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Assassination
• Ryan, Leo J. -- Assassination
• Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844 -- Assassination
• Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940 -- Assassination

• Political murder

• Assassinations and Socialism: From a Speech by August Bebel, Delivered at Berlin, November 2, 1898 (New York: New York Labor News Co., n.d.), by August Bebel, trans. by Boris Reinstein (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders: An Interim Report (1975), by United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities (HTML and PDF with commentary at history-matters.com)
• Final Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations (1979; with links to appendices on King assassination), by United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HTML and PDF with commentary at history-matters.com)

• Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare (HTML at MIT)
• Julius Caesar (multiple editions, with commentary), by William Shakespeare (HTML at Perseus)
• Julius Caesar (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
• Julius Caesar (with annotations, scene index, and some source material), by William Shakespeare and Plutarch, ed. by Philip Weller (HTML at shakespeare-navigators.com)

• Beyond Collusion: The U.K. Security Forces and the Murder of Patrick Finucane (New York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, c2003), by Fiona Doherty, contrib. by Meg Satterthwaite (PDF at humanrightsfirst.org)

• Eulogy on the Late President Garfield (Philadelphia: Hubbard Bros., 1882), by James Gillespie Blaine (page images at Google)

• Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board, by United States Assassination Records Review Board (HTML and PDF at oah.org)
• Final Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations (1979; with links to appendices on King assassination), by United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HTML and PDF with commentary at history-matters.com)
• Presumed Guilty: How and Why the Warren Commission Framed Lee Harvey Oswald (1976 edition), by Howard Roffman (HTML at ratical.org)
• Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, by Warren Commission
  • HTML in Germany
  • HTML and PDF with commentary at history-matters.com
• The Taking of America, 1-2-3 (1985 edition), by Richard E. Sprague
  • HTML at ratical.org
  • PDF at denkmalnach.org

• Final Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations (1979; with links to appendices on King assassination), by United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HTML and PDF with commentary at history-matters.com)

• Leon Trotsky on the Kirov Assassination (originally published 1935; New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1956), by Leon Trotsky, trans. by John G. Wright (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)

• The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: and the Attempted Assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary, by United States Department of State (page images at MOA)
• Assassination of Lincoln (from "Fifty Years in the Church of Rome"; Milan, IL: Rail Splitter Press, ca. 1922), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Assassination of Lincoln, As Told by Father Chiniquy (reprinted extract from "Fifty Years in the Church of Rome"), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Die Ermordung des Präsidenten Abraham Lincoln eine that der Jesuiten (extract from "Fifty Years in the Church of Rome" translated into German; Barmen: D. W. Wiemann, 1890), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Discourse the Day After the Reception of the Tidings of the Assassination of President Lincoln (Concord, NH: Macfarland and Jenks, 1865), by Henry Elijah Parker (HTML and page images at Emory)
• Jefferson Davis and His Complicity in the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, and Where the Traitor Shall be Tried for Treason (Philadelphia: Sherman and Co., 1866) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth, by George Alfred Townsend
  • page images at MOA
  • Gutenberg text
• Memorial Sermons: The Capture of Richmond; Some of the Results of the War; The Assassination of the President (Boston: G. C. Rand and Avery, 1865), by Edwin B. Webb (HTML and page images at Emory)
• The Murder of Abraham Lincoln Planned and Executed by Jesuit Priests (abridged extracts from "Fifty Years in the Church of Rome"; Indianapolis: Ironclad Age, 1893), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy, ed. by William Henry Burr (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Sermon on the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (Troy, NY: A. W. Scribner, 1865), by Marvin Richardson Vincent (HTML and page images at Emory)
• The Suppressed Truth About the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (1922), by Burke McCarty (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Who Assassinated Abraham Lincoln? (from "Fifty Years in the Church of Rome", with Conwell affidavit; n.d.), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy and Francis Asbury Conwell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Assassination of Representative Leo J. Ryan and the Jonestown, Guyana Tragedy: Report of a Staff Investigative Group to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives (Washington: GPO, 1979), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs Staff Investigative Group (page images at HathiTrust)

• Junius and Joseph: Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), by Robert Sigfrid Wicks and Fred R. Foister (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Murder of Trotsky and the Fight against Stalinism (New York: Leninist League USA, 1940), by J. C. Hunter (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Reporting Killings as Human Rights Violations: How to Document and Respond to Potential Violations of the Right to Life Within the International System for the Protection of Human Rights, by Kate Thompson and Camille Giffard (PDF and other formats with commentary in the UK)

• Genocide in Iraq: The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds (1993), by George Black (HTML at hrw.org)

• A Tortuous Road to Peace: The Dynamics of Regional, UN and International Humanitarian Interventions in Liberia (2005), ed. by Festus B. Aboagye and Alhaji M. S. Bah (PDF files in South Africa)

• Delivered Into Enemy Hands: US-Led Abuse and Rendition of Opponents to Gaddafi's Libya (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2012), by Laura Pitter (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Beyond Collusion: The U.K. Security Forces and the Murder of Patrick Finucane (New York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, c2003), by Fiona Doherty, contrib. by Meg Satterthwaite (PDF at humanrightsfirst.org)

• The Accused (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951), by Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski, trans. by Edward Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)

• Delivered Into Enemy Hands: US-Led Abuse and Rendition of Opponents to Gaddafi's Libya (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2012), by Laura Pitter (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• Justice and the I. W. W., by Paul F. Brissenden (PDF page images at MSU)
• The Power of the People is the Force of Life: Political Statement of the George Jackson Brigade (1977), by George Jackson Brigade (HTML at gjbip.org)

• Conspiracy: A Biblical View, by Gary North (HTML at reformed-theology.org)
• InTERRORgation: The CIA's Secret Manual on Coercive Questioning (KUBARK manual (slightly censored), and commentary), by United States Central Intelligence Agency and John Elliston (HTML at parascope.com)

• The Future of Insurgency (1993), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
• Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the 21st Century: Reconceputalizing Threat and Response (2004), by Steven Metz and Raymond A. Millen (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
• Rethinking Insurgency (2007), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at army.mil)

• Nihilism As It Is (London: T. Fisher Unwin, ca. 1894), by S. Stepniak and F. Volkhovskii, trans. by E. L. Voynich, contrib. by Robert Spence Watson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Political Kidnapings, 1968-73: A Staff Study (Washington: GPO, 1973), by United States House Committee on Internal Security (page images at HathiTrust)

• Al-Qa'ida, Iran, and Hizballah: A Continuing Symbiosis (New York: American Jewish Committee, c2004), by Yehudit Barsky (PDF at kintera.org)
• Antiterrorism Measures: The Adequacy of Foreign Airport Security: Staff Report to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives (Washington: GPO, 1986), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Castro and the Narcotics Connection: Special Report (original and government-derived content only; copyrighted media reports omitted; 1983), by Cuban American National Foundation (U.S.) (PDF at archive.org)
• Drugs and Terrorism, 1984: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-Eighth Congress, Second Session, on the Investigation of the Link Between Drugs and Terrorism, August 2, 1984 (Washington: GPO, 1984), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fresh Perspectives on the "War on Terror" (2008), ed. by Miriam Gani and Penelope Mathew (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• How Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for Countering Al Qa'ida (2008), by Seth G. Jones and Martin C. Libicki (PDF with commentary at rand.org)
• Impact of International Terrorism on Travel: Joint Hearings Before the Subcommittees on Arms Control, International Security, and Science, and on International Operations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Subcommittee on Aviation of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session, February 19, April 17, 22, and May 15, 1986 (Washington: GPO, 1986), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs and United States House Committee on Public Works and Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)
• International Terrorism: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-Seventh Congress, First Session, on S. 873 (Washington: GPO, 1981), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• International Terrorism: Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, June 29, 1995 (Washington: GPO, 1995), by United States House Committee on International Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legal Mechanisms to Combat Terrorism: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session, on the Availability of Civil and Criminal Actions Against Yassir Arrafat's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), April 23, 1986 (Washington: GPO, 1986), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libyan-Sponsored Terrorism: A Dilemma for Policymakers: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session, on the Nature and Extent of Libya's Direct Involvement in International Terrorism, February 19, 1986 (Washington: GPO, 1986), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Review of the Presidential Certification of Nicaragua's Connection to Terrorism: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Sixth Congress, Second Session, September 30, 1980 (Washington: GPO, 1980), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Role of Cuba in International Terrorism and Subversion: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Seventh Congress, Second Session (Washington: GPO, 1982), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why? (1999), by Rex A. Hudson (illustrated HTML at LOC)
• Terrorism: A Staff Study (Washington: GPO, 1974), by United States House Committee on Internal Security (page images at HathiTrust)
• Terrorism: The Challenge to the Democracies (Washington: U.S. Dept. of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, 1984), by George Pratt Shultz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Terrorist Group Profiles (Washington: GPO, ca. 1988) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trotskyism and Terror: The Strategy of Revolution, by Lawrence Patton McDonald (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.