welcome to the best of WatchMojo in this
series we’re turning back the clock to
show you some great early videos from
the channel that you might have missed
these voices were silenced before their
time 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
so when to demonstrate the true
criminals hide in the de Klerk 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 3rd 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 freedom 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
yourself I do not reject his goals of
full integration and full equality
rights for American citizens do you
reject the if you don’t think that he’s
walking on
the right Road I’m quite sure you don’t
agree that he’ll get to the right place
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 Hare
admitted his guilt but the other two
maintained their innocence and the civil
rights movement lost one of its most
active leaders do you consider yourself
militant 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 grievance 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 six
John Lennon shot twice in the
rush to Roosevelt Hospital dead on
arrival 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 Jesus Christ is the first oh
god there’s a thing whatever it is you
know it was wrong inspired by the anti
phony sentiment and 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 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 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
sear hands sear Han 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
[Music]
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 Theatre in Washington DC
on April 14th 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 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 sixty 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
[Music]
they came into the crowd shot into the
crowd shock Sadat who slumped to the
floor of the reviewing stand
Vallance trial against me is built upon
false confessions extorted by modern
visitorial methods in the interest of
the reading great
in fact Christ talks about love it’s
very interesting they carry this Bible
in one hand and hate with 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 naturam gut say the Hindu
nationalists disagreed with Gandhi’s
support of Pakistan and perceived
preference towards Pakistani Muslims
over Indian Hindus this caused Godse to
fire three fatal shots at Gandhi while
he was in New Delhi on January 30th 1948
millions subsequently honored the fallen
leader and his policies of compassion
are still praised
today do you agree with our picks check
out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
series we’re turning back the clock to
show you some great early videos from
the channel that you might have missed
these voices were silenced before their
time 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
so when to demonstrate the true
criminals hide in the de Klerk 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 3rd 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 freedom 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
yourself I do not reject his goals of
full integration and full equality
rights for American citizens do you
reject the if you don’t think that he’s
walking on
the right Road I’m quite sure you don’t
agree that he’ll get to the right place
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 Hare
admitted his guilt but the other two
maintained their innocence and the civil
rights movement lost one of its most
active leaders do you consider yourself
militant 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 grievance 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 six
John Lennon shot twice in the
rush to Roosevelt Hospital dead on
arrival 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 Jesus Christ is the first oh
god there’s a thing whatever it is you
know it was wrong inspired by the anti
phony sentiment and 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 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 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
sear hands sear Han 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
[Music]
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 Theatre in Washington DC
on April 14th 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 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 sixty 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
[Music]
they came into the crowd shot into the
crowd shock Sadat who slumped to the
floor of the reviewing stand
Vallance trial against me is built upon
false confessions extorted by modern
visitorial methods in the interest of
the reading great
in fact Christ talks about love it’s
very interesting they carry this Bible
in one hand and hate with 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 naturam gut say the Hindu
nationalists disagreed with Gandhi’s
support of Pakistan and perceived
preference towards Pakistani Muslims
over Indian Hindus this caused Godse to
fire three fatal shots at Gandhi while
he was in New Delhi on January 30th 1948
millions subsequently honored the fallen
leader and his policies of compassion
are still praised
today do you agree with our picks check
out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
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