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Then along comes the Midwest assassin, who earlier this month killed a black man and a Korean-American man and wounded nine other blacks, Asians, and Jews (coming out of a synagogue).
When, in 1835, a would-be assassin pointed his pistol at Andrew Jackson, the pugnacious president simply charged at the assailant, brandishing his cane.
Jowers, who owned the restaurant opposite King's motel (and one floor below the room Ray rented), said he had hired the real assassin on behalf of an associate with possible ties to the mob.
By 1968, that annus horribilis when Johnson cracked from the pressure of mediating an increasingly centripetal Democratic Party and Kennedy fell to an assassin's bullet, two political ideal-types had solidified: a "silent majority" who supported Johnson's war on Vietnam and voted in Richard Nixon, and a "new class" of liberal professionals and youth who supported Johnson's war on poverty but detested everything Richard Nixon represented.
John Lennon's assassin, Mark David Chapman, and Ronald Reagan's would-be killer, John Hinckley, were both major Catcher fans.