assassination
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The film traces how suspicion fell in particular on several members of the Jewish Defense League, a group founded by extremist rabbi Meir Kahane before his own assassination in 1990.
From Barron's
Regulated U.S. prediction markets are overseen by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which can ban certain contracts they deem against public interest, such as those involving war, assassination or illegal activities.
This included clashes with King himself, who he knew for only three years prior to King’s 1968 assassination.
From Salon
It includes having your most intimate moments fictionalized for the purposes of a miniseries and, in Kennedy’s case, your father’s assassination and your family’s reaction to trauma raked over one more time.
From Los Angeles Times
To counteract viewer angst about all the dark topics covered in the news about Vietnam, assassinations and more, television leaned into pure escapism for most of the mid-late Sixties.
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