assassination
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The 25th Amendment was adopted after the assassination of President Kennedy.
From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026
Masoud Pezeshkian said the "cowardly assassination" had left Iran "in deep mourning", after Israel said on Wednesday it had killed Khatib in an air strike.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026
Davignon, who went on to become a vice president of the European Commission in the 1980s, was a novice diplomat at the time of the assassination.
From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026
For baby boomers, the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
Though John Surratt had been a conspirator in the kidnapping plot, he was not even in Washington on the evening of the assassination.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
Vocabulary lists containing assassination
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