Presidential Assassinations Quotes

There were many citizens who were very dubious about Dutero. In addition to his wildly flamboyant oratory, he advocated the exta judicial killing o suspected drug dealers, and as a mayor had actually personally murdered a few as an example for the police who were at first reluctant.

For over 50 years both the United States and Cuba had carried grudges about the Bay of Pigs, the boycott on purcuase of life saving medicine and U. S. attempts to assassiate Fidel Castro on the Cuban site, and the expropriation of Americans' Coban Prepoert, the poor record on human rights, the Mariel Boat Lift, and the harboring of American criminals for the United States. The policy positions held by the two nations had not produced anything constructive so the parties agreed to try and build closer ties. In just two years of a limited reproachment some progress had been made and Prices point about getting beyond the past tried to get all focussed on the future.

The conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln were tried, found guilty, sentenced and hanged by a military tribunal. Not everyone agreed that such a process was lawful or desirable. Bates believed also that the effect was to make martyrs of the conspirators.

There was no formal Secret Service protection for the president in 1864. The Marshall of the District of Columbia was an old friend of President Lincoln's and he assumed some responsibility for his security. When he heard that the president was planning on attending the theater accompanied only by Senator Charles Sumner and the elderly Prussian minister, the Marshall was disparaging of their defensive abilities.