High-profile leaders are sometimes criminal targets. Take a look at some of history's most infamous assassinations (and assassination attempts), including the shooting deaths of four American presidents.
Lincoln's life, and the role he plays in holding the country together, makes him one of the most significant figures in history.
Nine black high school students in Little Rock, Arkansas waged a successful campaing to attend public shool.
Everyone in and around Dallas knows the motorcade's widely publicized route.
His family buries Kennedy's body in Arlington Cemetery, as a country grieves for the loss of their leader.
Sirhan Sirhan shoots and kills Bobby and injures five others.
Lee Harvey Oswald works in Dallas. He knows the President's motorcade route will pass by the building in which he works.
Even as he lies wounded, the president tries to protect his assassin.
Czolgosz may be insane, but his justice is swift, and he dies in the electric chair after confessing why he killed McKinley.
This chapter describes the climate of the country under dictatorship.
The deaths of one black and two white freedom fighters goaded Congress into passing the first voting rights legislation since Reconstruction.
President Lincoln predicts he will not survive his second term.
Facts about Bobby's fatal shooting are still in dispute today.
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