In the April 21st entry in the diary found to be John Wilkes Booth’s, he writes, “And why; For doing what Brutus was honored for, what made Tell a Hero. And yet I for striking down a greater tyrant than they ever knew am looked upon as a common cutthroat...” (Goodrich 556). His actions would soon lead to acts of violence spread across the entirety of the country and set the tone for the years to follow. Mob violence became commonplace North and South alike where men were beaten for the slightest show of gratitude towards the death of Lincoln. Even at the hands of a policeman a man was clubbed and sentenced to six months in jail for exclaiming, “Old Abe, that son of a bitch, is dead, and he ought to have been killed long ago” (Goodrich 227).
One fateful March night in Boston, Massachusetts 1770 five men were killed and six more were wounded. Dubbed The Boston Massacre by the Sons of Liberty, this event was built up to be much more than it really was. The soldiers were not guilty, but simply victims of tragic circumstance. A common primary source looked at when referring to The Boston Massacre is Paul Revere’s The Bloody Massacre. The silver engraving appears to show the British soldiers standing in a line being commanded to shoot at the colonists who are running away in fear.
Ben’s father wanted him to be a clergyman but could not pay for the amount of schooling required. Ben was an apprentice to his brother who owned a printing shop which is where he learned how to print, write, and typesetting. He later became a writer and an inventor and opened his own printing shop. Ben was from Boston, but he always considered Philadelphia his true home. His role in his home state was founding the first library, the first volunteer fire company, the first postal system, and the first
He was put to work in trade but none of the trades interested him. He has fascinated with the sea instead but his father was against it. Franklin still went behind his father’s back after work, and built a Wharf with the other boys and got into trouble the next morning. Franklin’s father taught him a lesson that anything dishonest is never useful. Franklin ended up as an apprentice to his half-brother, James who was a printer.
When Shepard refused, McKinney hit him with the gun. With Henderson behind the wheel, McKinney continued to strike Shepard. McKinney then told Henderson to get a rope out of the truck. McKinney allegedly tied Shepard’s beaten body to a wooden split-rail post fence, robbed him of his wallet and patent leather shoes, continued to beat him and left him to die for over 18 hours. Matthew Shepard died October 12, 1998 at 12:53 a.m. after spending five days in a comma due to massive injuries and head trauma.
The engine house was built years after the battle over top of a battlefield where men died. When it was being built and dirt was being removed skulls were found in the hill side. This disruption is believed to have lead to the activity, as well as the metal in the railroad tracks is believed to conduct energy that brings the entities to the area. Current employees say it is a normal thing to experience activity every night. One employee states that one night as he was working fifteen confederate soldiers came out of the woods on the hill side and through the Engine house.
The following day Dorner’s manifesto was posted online, which imparted Dorner’s rationalization toward the pursuit of violent action. Randal Quan and his family had been part of the list of those Dorner felt had betrayed him. Three days later on February 6th the authorities named Dorner a suspect in the Irvine killings. The following day two Riverside police
On the morning of December 29, 1890, soldiers from the U.S. Seventh Cavalry, the unit made world-famous only fifteen years earlier by its defeat under General George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn, opened fire on a band of Minneconjou and Hunkpapa Sioux who they had detained and were in the process of disarming. Over several hours, the men of the Seventh indiscriminately killed about 250 people, more than half of who were women, children and elderly, and crushed the spiritual movement known as the Ghost Dance. The Wounded Knee Massacre unquestionably stands as one of the darkest moments in the relationship between Native Americans and the United States government, yet most scholarship on the subject either limits its scope to the individuals directly involved in the affair and the tactics employed or presents the slaughter as a turning point in a longer history of U.S. aggression towards the native people of the Great Plains.
A 20-year-old college student had killed a woman at his Ladera Ranch home and had set out on a killing spree that stretched through the heart of Orange County. He had killed a businessman and stole his BMW. A few minutes later, he killed a plumber and took a work truck. He shot randomly at the morning commuters on the 55 Freeway, which had hit at least three cars. The authorities were surprised at the "senseless violence," which had spanned about 25 miles.
Three other students were injured. Lane was arrested when he was standing near his car parked near the school, and was charged as an adult with murder, attempted murder, and firearms offenses. In March 2013, he was sentenced to three life sentences without the possibility of parole ("List of School Shooting in the United States", 2014).” On December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. “Adam Lanza, aged 20, killed 26 people and himself at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. He first killed his mother at their shared home before taking her guns and driving to the school.