their opinions cost them their lives
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down the top ten political
assassinations of the 20th century
number 10 go didn’t seem as the first
president of south vietnam team was
steadfastly anti-communist
this earned him united states support
however when the u.s. discovered zine
was massacring buddhists he lost that
support he was captured and assassinated
on November 2nd 1963 during a coup
d’etat in what proved to be a turning
point in the Vietnam War number 9 Harvey
Milk Milk was the first openly gay
elected official in California and
that’s why some consider his death a
hate crime however Dan White apparently
pulled the trigger on milk on November
27th 1978 because of a work dispute my
duty to make this announcement both
mayor Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk
have been shot and killed riots erupted
when White was found guilty of voluntary
manslaughter due to diminished capacity
and a great period of upheaval continued
number 8 Anwar Sadat Anwar Sadat won a
Nobel Peace Prize for helping to broker
the egypt-israel peace treaty but that
Accord was controversial among Arab
countries let us pledge to make the
spirit of Camp David a new chapter in
the history of our nations
Thank You mr. president during a
celebration in Cairo on October 6 1981
Sadat was shot and killed because of it
by a group that included Khalid
islambouli and some of Sadat’s own
soldiers Middle East diplomacy was never
the same number 7
Yitzhak Rabine the dying for peace has
come right-wing radical ugalla mirror
also attempted to derail the Middle East
peace process by killing one of its
architects the Israeli prime minister
was killed November 4th 1995 at a rally
in Tel Aviv
after receiving heavy criticism for his
support of the Oslo peace accords as a
way to settle the israeli-palestinian
conflict
however Emir
successfully created a martyr for peace
number six
Mahatma Gandhi he spent his life as a
symbol of peace but on January 30th 1948
he died as a victim of violence after
multiple assassination attempts against
Gandhi it was Hindu extremists Natur
Amjad say who fired the fatal shots
following his death Gandhi’s teachings
served as inspiration for future
activists like Martin Luther King jr. to
use non-violence as a means to an end
number-5 Malcolm X now I am well aware
of what I’m setting in motion by what
I’m saying up here tonight I’m well away
but I have never said or done anything
in my life that I wasn’t prepared to
suffer the consequences for Malcolm X
inspired many but also made enemies with
his fiery speeches and fervent beliefs
on February 21st 1965 he was shot and
killed by three different men while
speaking at New York’s Audubon Ballroom
the Nation of Islam took responsibility
and Talmadge Hare admitted his guilt but
the other two maintained their innocence
his death was one of many during the
struggle for civil rights equality
number four Robert Kennedy
Bobby’s death was another cannot
continue to deny and postpone the
demands of our own people while spending
billions in the name of freedom
elsewhere around the globe while at the
Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June
5th 1968 as part of his presidential
campaign Kennedy was shot by Palestinian
immigrants Sirhan Sirhan due to his
support of Israel RFK s death meant the
loss of a viable candidate for the
Democrats and the eventual election of
Richard Nixon later that year number
three Martin Luther King jr. as he spoke
to a crowd in Memphis Tennessee
on April 3rd 1968 it seemed that dr.
King knew what was coming I may not get
that with you
but I want you to know the night that we
ever people will get to the promised
land
the next day 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 caused riots and spurred the
expansion of radical african-american
movements like the Black Panthers number
2 John Fitzgerald Kennedy while
traveling by motorcade through Dallas
Texas Dealey Plaza on November 22nd 1963
he was killed by a sniper’s rifle from
Dallas Texas the flash apparently
official President Kennedy died at 1:00
p.m. Central Standard Time 2 o’clock
Eastern Standard Time some 38 minutes
ago the repercussions of Kennedy’s
assassination were felt for decades
following his death from the passage of
1964 Civil Rights Act to the
intensification of the Vietnam War it’s
impossible to know how things might have
unraveled had Lee Harvey Oswald never
taken the fatal shot number 1 Archduke
Franz Ferdinand taking the top spot on
our list is the event that sparked the
first world war and forever changed the
landscape of the globe On June 28 1914
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was
shot and killed by Gavrilo Princip while
he visited Sarajevo the motive of
Princip and his fellow Bosnian Serb
revolutionaries was to break away from
austria-hungary and form their own
republic if revolution was what they
wanted they certainly succeeded
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down the top ten political
assassinations of the 20th century
number 10 go didn’t seem as the first
president of south vietnam team was
steadfastly anti-communist
this earned him united states support
however when the u.s. discovered zine
was massacring buddhists he lost that
support he was captured and assassinated
on November 2nd 1963 during a coup
d’etat in what proved to be a turning
point in the Vietnam War number 9 Harvey
Milk Milk was the first openly gay
elected official in California and
that’s why some consider his death a
hate crime however Dan White apparently
pulled the trigger on milk on November
27th 1978 because of a work dispute my
duty to make this announcement both
mayor Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk
have been shot and killed riots erupted
when White was found guilty of voluntary
manslaughter due to diminished capacity
and a great period of upheaval continued
number 8 Anwar Sadat Anwar Sadat won a
Nobel Peace Prize for helping to broker
the egypt-israel peace treaty but that
Accord was controversial among Arab
countries let us pledge to make the
spirit of Camp David a new chapter in
the history of our nations
Thank You mr. president during a
celebration in Cairo on October 6 1981
Sadat was shot and killed because of it
by a group that included Khalid
islambouli and some of Sadat’s own
soldiers Middle East diplomacy was never
the same number 7
Yitzhak Rabine the dying for peace has
come right-wing radical ugalla mirror
also attempted to derail the Middle East
peace process by killing one of its
architects the Israeli prime minister
was killed November 4th 1995 at a rally
in Tel Aviv
after receiving heavy criticism for his
support of the Oslo peace accords as a
way to settle the israeli-palestinian
conflict
however Emir
successfully created a martyr for peace
number six
Mahatma Gandhi he spent his life as a
symbol of peace but on January 30th 1948
he died as a victim of violence after
multiple assassination attempts against
Gandhi it was Hindu extremists Natur
Amjad say who fired the fatal shots
following his death Gandhi’s teachings
served as inspiration for future
activists like Martin Luther King jr. to
use non-violence as a means to an end
number-5 Malcolm X now I am well aware
of what I’m setting in motion by what
I’m saying up here tonight I’m well away
but I have never said or done anything
in my life that I wasn’t prepared to
suffer the consequences for Malcolm X
inspired many but also made enemies with
his fiery speeches and fervent beliefs
on February 21st 1965 he was shot and
killed by three different men while
speaking at New York’s Audubon Ballroom
the Nation of Islam took responsibility
and Talmadge Hare admitted his guilt but
the other two maintained their innocence
his death was one of many during the
struggle for civil rights equality
number four Robert Kennedy
Bobby’s death was another cannot
continue to deny and postpone the
demands of our own people while spending
billions in the name of freedom
elsewhere around the globe while at the
Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June
5th 1968 as part of his presidential
campaign Kennedy was shot by Palestinian
immigrants Sirhan Sirhan due to his
support of Israel RFK s death meant the
loss of a viable candidate for the
Democrats and the eventual election of
Richard Nixon later that year number
three Martin Luther King jr. as he spoke
to a crowd in Memphis Tennessee
on April 3rd 1968 it seemed that dr.
King knew what was coming I may not get
that with you
but I want you to know the night that we
ever people will get to the promised
land
the next day 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 caused riots and spurred the
expansion of radical african-american
movements like the Black Panthers number
2 John Fitzgerald Kennedy while
traveling by motorcade through Dallas
Texas Dealey Plaza on November 22nd 1963
he was killed by a sniper’s rifle from
Dallas Texas the flash apparently
official President Kennedy died at 1:00
p.m. Central Standard Time 2 o’clock
Eastern Standard Time some 38 minutes
ago the repercussions of Kennedy’s
assassination were felt for decades
following his death from the passage of
1964 Civil Rights Act to the
intensification of the Vietnam War it’s
impossible to know how things might have
unraveled had Lee Harvey Oswald never
taken the fatal shot number 1 Archduke
Franz Ferdinand taking the top spot on
our list is the event that sparked the
first world war and forever changed the
landscape of the globe On June 28 1914
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was
shot and killed by Gavrilo Princip while
he visited Sarajevo the motive of
Princip and his fellow Bosnian Serb
revolutionaries was to break away from
austria-hungary and form their own
republic if revolution was what they
wanted they certainly succeeded
Please follow and like us: