these voices were silenced before their
time I see the promised land I may not
get that with you but I want you to know
the night that we as a people will get
to the promised land
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
assassinations in history for this list
we’re taking a look at political and
social leaders who had their lives cut
short these are the unexpected deaths
that shocked the world and changed the
course of history going to demonstrate
that the true criminals hide in the DES
clock of the accuser number 10 philip ii
of macedon the man credited with
inventing the political ideology of
divide and conquer philip ii was a
successful ruler of Macedon in the
autumn of 336 BC Philip was left
unprotected while attending his
daughter’s wedding and was killed by one
of his bodyguards Jose Gnaeus of
arrestees though the assassins motives
are unclear some historians believe his
wife and son Alexander the third were
involved while others theorized paz
Aeneas was a wronged lover of Philips
the murder allowed for Philips son
Alexander the Great to ascend to the
throne and create one of the largest
empires in history
number 9 Malcolm X and bring about the
freedom of these people by any means
necessary as a militant voice of the
civil rights movement Malcolm X had long
been a target of violence and death
threats I’m a man who believed that I
died 20 years ago and I live like a man
who’s dead all of it after Malcolm X is
very public break from the Nation of
Islam religious movement animosity
between him and the organization grew
but you didn’t endorse what Martin
Luther King was doing you felt uh I do
not reject his goals of full integration
and full equality rights for American
citizens
do you reject these you don’t think that
he’s walking on the right Road I’m quite
sure you don’t agree that he’ll get
right please tensions boiled over during
an address in Manhattan on February 21st
1965 when three men shot and killed the
civil rights leader the nation took
responsibility and talmadge hair
admitted his guilt but the other two
maintained their innocence and the civil
rights movement lost one of its most
active leaders you consider yourself
militant I can throw myself now
number eight benazir bhutto and i don’t
want to have to humiliate me everybody
has to die though no longer Prime
Minister of Pakistan benazir bhutto was
still a prominent political figure in
2007 as the first female leader of a
Muslim country on December 27th of that
year she was on the campaign trail for
the upcoming parliamentary elections
though she was equipped with a
bulletproof vehicle Bhutto was killed
while standing through the sunroof to
greet fans when shots rang out and
explosives were detonated near the car
this is the last picture of Benazir
Bhutto alive taken just before her
assailant got close enough to blow up
her vehicle al-qaeda commander Mustafa
Abu Ali azide took responsibility for
Bhutto’s death which sparked riots and
quashed any chance of stability in the
region
the announcement of her death sent her
supporters into spasms of greens number
seven Archduke Franz Ferdinand of
Austria if not for the events that
followed the assassination of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand his name might have been
just a blip in history the murder of
Ferdinand and his wife on June 28 1914
set in motion a chain of events that
resulted in the beginning of World War
one just one month later the motive of
assassin Gavrilo Princip and his fellow
Bosnian Serb revolutionaries was to
break away from austria-hungary and
formed their own Republic the result was
a conflict involving all the world’s
great economic powers and one of the
deadliest conflicts in world history
number 6 John Lennon shot twice and
loved
rush to Roosevelt Hospital
the cultural impact of the Beatles is
difficult to overstate the group
inspired obsessed fans including the
dangerously infatuated Mark David
Chapman Chapman once a die-hard Beatles
fan had become a born-again Christian
and considered Lennon’s comments that
the Beatles were more popular than Jesus
blasphemous I’m not saying that was
better or greater or comparing us with
Jesus Christ as a person or God as a
thing or whatever it is you know I just
said what I said and it was wrong or was
hating wrong
inspired by the anti phony sentiment in
JD Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the
Rye and his perception that Lennon was
the ultimate hypocrite
Chapman visited the Dakota apartment
building where Lennon and Yoko Ono lived
on December 8 1980 and after getting his
autograph earlier in the day shot and
killed him I thought by killing him I
would acquire his fame number five
Martin Luther King jr. dr. Martin Luther
King the apostle of non-violence in the
civil rights movement has been shot to
death in Memphis Tennessee Martin Luther
King served as a star spokesman for the
civil rights movement in America pushing
for the Equality of African Americans
through nonviolent means I have a dream
my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will not be
judged by the color of their skin but by
the content of that character but he was
silenced before he had the opportunity
to see his efforts succeed on April 4th
1968 the civil rights leader and Nobel
Peace Prize winner was shot and killed
by James Earl Ray as he stood on the
balcony of his hotel room King’s death
widened the gap between whites and
blacks and spurred the expansion of
radical african-american movements like
the Black Panthers like anybody I would
like to live a long life longevity has
its place
but I’m not concerned about that now I
just want to do God’s will
number four John F Kennedy from Dallas
Texas the flash apparently official
President Kennedy died at 1:00 p.m.
Central Standard Time tragedy has
befallen many members of the Kennedy
family for example
JFK’s brother Bobby was assassinated by
seer hen seer hen in 1968 while he
campaigned for president but perhaps
most famous was the assassination of
President John F Kennedy on November
22nd 1963 shot by a sniper’s bullet
while riding through Dealey Plaza in
Texas JFK’s death is shrouded in
conspiracy with the official story
placing the gun in the hands of former
Marine Lee Harvey Oswald
but since Oswald was shot just days
later by Jack Ruby while in police
custody we may never know the truth for
certain Oswalt has been shot number
three Abraham Lincoln after guiding
America through the most tumultuous time
in its young history Lincoln had locked
in his legacy by 1865 but any other
accomplishments he might have achieved
were thwarted during a play at Ford’s
Theater in Washington DC on April 14
1865 with the Civil War drawing to a
close
actor and Confederate John Wilkes Booth
snuck into the president’s box and shot
him in the head
booth then jumped to the stage with a
knife and apparently uttered in Latin
thus always to tyrants a phrase
attributed to Brutus during Caesar’s
assassination Lincoln died the next day
number 2 Julius Caesar
perhaps history’s most famous
assassination thanks to its retelling by
Shakespeare the death of Julius Caesar
is memorable as both drama and
historical fact it – Brutus then for
season after Caesar was named dictator
for life by the Senate a plan to remove
him was almost immediately devised by
Senate members calling themselves
liberators who
feared Caesar threatened their power
together this group of roughly 60 of
some of Caesars closest allies violently
beat and stabbed him to death
but their later attempts to install a
tyrannical government were met with
protests from lower-class Romans and
ultimately Caesar’s heir Octavian gained
power before we unveil our top pick here
are a few honorable mentions into the
crowd shot into the crowd shock Sadat
who slumped to the floor of the
reviewing stand
– trial against me is built upon false
confessions extorted by modern
visitorial methods in the interest of
the running great in fact Christ talks
about love is very interesting they
carry this Bible in one hand and hatred
in the other hand instead it’s sinful
Christ himself said nothing about once
again our top story this evening the
assassination today of Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabine gunned down at a
pro-government rally tonight in Tel Aviv
number one Mahatma Gandhi he spent his
life as a symbol of peace but died a
victim of violence in life Mahatma
Gandhi led India to independence from
Great Britain using nonviolent tactics
rather than revolution despite his
success some objected to his peaceful
approach including nattramn guts a the
Hindu nationalists disagreed with
Gandhi’s support of Pakistan and
perceived preference towards Pakistani
Muslims / Indian Hindus this caused God
say to fire three fatal shots at Gandhi
while he was in New Delhi on January
30th nineteen forty eight million
subsequently honored the fallen leader
and his policies of compassion are still
praised today do you agree with our list
which historical assassinations do you
think we’re the most impactful for more
informative top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
now the religious controversy I don’t
want to say too much about it but does
it worry that it’s going to boil up when
you get to them saying well they’re
bullies there yet but I’ll beverage Envy
all right in the end of the day
you
time I see the promised land I may not
get that with you but I want you to know
the night that we as a people will get
to the promised land
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
assassinations in history for this list
we’re taking a look at political and
social leaders who had their lives cut
short these are the unexpected deaths
that shocked the world and changed the
course of history going to demonstrate
that the true criminals hide in the DES
clock of the accuser number 10 philip ii
of macedon the man credited with
inventing the political ideology of
divide and conquer philip ii was a
successful ruler of Macedon in the
autumn of 336 BC Philip was left
unprotected while attending his
daughter’s wedding and was killed by one
of his bodyguards Jose Gnaeus of
arrestees though the assassins motives
are unclear some historians believe his
wife and son Alexander the third were
involved while others theorized paz
Aeneas was a wronged lover of Philips
the murder allowed for Philips son
Alexander the Great to ascend to the
throne and create one of the largest
empires in history
number 9 Malcolm X and bring about the
freedom of these people by any means
necessary as a militant voice of the
civil rights movement Malcolm X had long
been a target of violence and death
threats I’m a man who believed that I
died 20 years ago and I live like a man
who’s dead all of it after Malcolm X is
very public break from the Nation of
Islam religious movement animosity
between him and the organization grew
but you didn’t endorse what Martin
Luther King was doing you felt uh I do
not reject his goals of full integration
and full equality rights for American
citizens
do you reject these you don’t think that
he’s walking on the right Road I’m quite
sure you don’t agree that he’ll get
right please tensions boiled over during
an address in Manhattan on February 21st
1965 when three men shot and killed the
civil rights leader the nation took
responsibility and talmadge hair
admitted his guilt but the other two
maintained their innocence and the civil
rights movement lost one of its most
active leaders you consider yourself
militant I can throw myself now
number eight benazir bhutto and i don’t
want to have to humiliate me everybody
has to die though no longer Prime
Minister of Pakistan benazir bhutto was
still a prominent political figure in
2007 as the first female leader of a
Muslim country on December 27th of that
year she was on the campaign trail for
the upcoming parliamentary elections
though she was equipped with a
bulletproof vehicle Bhutto was killed
while standing through the sunroof to
greet fans when shots rang out and
explosives were detonated near the car
this is the last picture of Benazir
Bhutto alive taken just before her
assailant got close enough to blow up
her vehicle al-qaeda commander Mustafa
Abu Ali azide took responsibility for
Bhutto’s death which sparked riots and
quashed any chance of stability in the
region
the announcement of her death sent her
supporters into spasms of greens number
seven Archduke Franz Ferdinand of
Austria if not for the events that
followed the assassination of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand his name might have been
just a blip in history the murder of
Ferdinand and his wife on June 28 1914
set in motion a chain of events that
resulted in the beginning of World War
one just one month later the motive of
assassin Gavrilo Princip and his fellow
Bosnian Serb revolutionaries was to
break away from austria-hungary and
formed their own Republic the result was
a conflict involving all the world’s
great economic powers and one of the
deadliest conflicts in world history
number 6 John Lennon shot twice and
loved
rush to Roosevelt Hospital
the cultural impact of the Beatles is
difficult to overstate the group
inspired obsessed fans including the
dangerously infatuated Mark David
Chapman Chapman once a die-hard Beatles
fan had become a born-again Christian
and considered Lennon’s comments that
the Beatles were more popular than Jesus
blasphemous I’m not saying that was
better or greater or comparing us with
Jesus Christ as a person or God as a
thing or whatever it is you know I just
said what I said and it was wrong or was
hating wrong
inspired by the anti phony sentiment in
JD Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the
Rye and his perception that Lennon was
the ultimate hypocrite
Chapman visited the Dakota apartment
building where Lennon and Yoko Ono lived
on December 8 1980 and after getting his
autograph earlier in the day shot and
killed him I thought by killing him I
would acquire his fame number five
Martin Luther King jr. dr. Martin Luther
King the apostle of non-violence in the
civil rights movement has been shot to
death in Memphis Tennessee Martin Luther
King served as a star spokesman for the
civil rights movement in America pushing
for the Equality of African Americans
through nonviolent means I have a dream
my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will not be
judged by the color of their skin but by
the content of that character but he was
silenced before he had the opportunity
to see his efforts succeed on April 4th
1968 the civil rights leader and Nobel
Peace Prize winner was shot and killed
by James Earl Ray as he stood on the
balcony of his hotel room King’s death
widened the gap between whites and
blacks and spurred the expansion of
radical african-american movements like
the Black Panthers like anybody I would
like to live a long life longevity has
its place
but I’m not concerned about that now I
just want to do God’s will
number four John F Kennedy from Dallas
Texas the flash apparently official
President Kennedy died at 1:00 p.m.
Central Standard Time tragedy has
befallen many members of the Kennedy
family for example
JFK’s brother Bobby was assassinated by
seer hen seer hen in 1968 while he
campaigned for president but perhaps
most famous was the assassination of
President John F Kennedy on November
22nd 1963 shot by a sniper’s bullet
while riding through Dealey Plaza in
Texas JFK’s death is shrouded in
conspiracy with the official story
placing the gun in the hands of former
Marine Lee Harvey Oswald
but since Oswald was shot just days
later by Jack Ruby while in police
custody we may never know the truth for
certain Oswalt has been shot number
three Abraham Lincoln after guiding
America through the most tumultuous time
in its young history Lincoln had locked
in his legacy by 1865 but any other
accomplishments he might have achieved
were thwarted during a play at Ford’s
Theater in Washington DC on April 14
1865 with the Civil War drawing to a
close
actor and Confederate John Wilkes Booth
snuck into the president’s box and shot
him in the head
booth then jumped to the stage with a
knife and apparently uttered in Latin
thus always to tyrants a phrase
attributed to Brutus during Caesar’s
assassination Lincoln died the next day
number 2 Julius Caesar
perhaps history’s most famous
assassination thanks to its retelling by
Shakespeare the death of Julius Caesar
is memorable as both drama and
historical fact it – Brutus then for
season after Caesar was named dictator
for life by the Senate a plan to remove
him was almost immediately devised by
Senate members calling themselves
liberators who
feared Caesar threatened their power
together this group of roughly 60 of
some of Caesars closest allies violently
beat and stabbed him to death
but their later attempts to install a
tyrannical government were met with
protests from lower-class Romans and
ultimately Caesar’s heir Octavian gained
power before we unveil our top pick here
are a few honorable mentions into the
crowd shot into the crowd shock Sadat
who slumped to the floor of the
reviewing stand
– trial against me is built upon false
confessions extorted by modern
visitorial methods in the interest of
the running great in fact Christ talks
about love is very interesting they
carry this Bible in one hand and hatred
in the other hand instead it’s sinful
Christ himself said nothing about once
again our top story this evening the
assassination today of Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabine gunned down at a
pro-government rally tonight in Tel Aviv
number one Mahatma Gandhi he spent his
life as a symbol of peace but died a
victim of violence in life Mahatma
Gandhi led India to independence from
Great Britain using nonviolent tactics
rather than revolution despite his
success some objected to his peaceful
approach including nattramn guts a the
Hindu nationalists disagreed with
Gandhi’s support of Pakistan and
perceived preference towards Pakistani
Muslims / Indian Hindus this caused God
say to fire three fatal shots at Gandhi
while he was in New Delhi on January
30th nineteen forty eight million
subsequently honored the fallen leader
and his policies of compassion are still
praised today do you agree with our list
which historical assassinations do you
think we’re the most impactful for more
informative top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
now the religious controversy I don’t
want to say too much about it but does
it worry that it’s going to boil up when
you get to them saying well they’re
bullies there yet but I’ll beverage Envy
all right in the end of the day
you
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