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"Carol Leonnig has been covering the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the gaffes and scandals that plague the agency today--from a toxic work culture to outdated equipment and training to the deep resentment among the ranks with the agency's leadership. But the Secret Service wasn't always so troubled. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but...
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Details surrounding the four successful and seven unsuccessful assassination attempts on the lives of American presidents. Four chapters focus on the deaths of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy. The fifth chapter, includes brief sketches of botched or foiled assassination attempts against Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. Ages 10-up.
3) Dallas 1963
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Presents an account of the radicals, reactionaries, and extremists who turned Dallas into a city infamous for the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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Throughout American history, Presidents and Presidential candidates have faced assassination threats and attempts on their lives. Historian Ronald L. Feinman discusses sixteen Presidents, as well as three important candidates, and how they were directly threatened with assassination -- six being killed, three wounded, and ten unhurt. Additionally, he reveals information about some failed attempts, which, had they been successful, could have resulted...