In 1937 Otto Eisenschiml's Why Was Lincoln Murdered was published. The book espoused the hypothesis that Secretary of War Edwin Stanton was directly involved in Lincoln's death. It alleged that Stanton was against Lincoln's mild Reconstruction policies and wanted him out of office so a more radical Reconstructionist policy could be employed. On the day of the assassination Ulysses S. Grant was expected to attend Our American Cousin with the Lincolns. Eisenschiml argued that had Grant attended, the military guards who protected him would never have allowed Booth to enter the State Box at Ford's Theatre.
Kemper’s mother had sent him to live with his grandparents because she was tired of his eccentric behavior. Edmund Kemper, seventeen at the time, decided to shoot his grand mother “just to see how it felt” and eventually shot his grandfather when he returned home. He was sent to a mental asylum later for his actions but proved to his psychologist, through assistant work and studies, that he was deemed normal enough for release including expunging his juvenile records. However, he was still fascinated with killer which began his murder campaign around the age of 24. Edmund worked for the department of transportation in Santa Cruz and began to pick up hitchhikers, bring them to deserted areas, and brutally rape and kill them.
When a Kwakiutl chief’s sister and her daughter were presumed dead after not returning from a trip to Victoria, the chief gathered together his warriors. Collectively, they determined that some of the tribe would be required to ‘wail” die, to remediate the chief’s loss. The warriors then formed a war party, and killed seven men and children whom they discovered sleeping. Not only were these individuals innocent of any involvement in the disappearance, they were not even aware of the chief’s loss. After committing these murders, the warriors “felt good” (140), believing they had successfully wiped out the affront against their tribal chief.
Avery Heldt Mrs. Wassmer Amstuds/period 6 22 February 2012 The St. Valentine’s Day massacre During the 1920s, gang warfare had ruled the streets, Al Capone’s gang and Moran’s gang had been rivaling since the beginning. Al capons associate jack McGurn, told Capone of his plan to get rid of Moran’s gang once and for all. On February 14th, 1929; known as the St. Valentine’s Day massacre, not many died but jack McGurns plan went into effect, some less important people did die, and interesting events occurred during the massacre. Al Capone was visiting with family one day, when his associate jack McGurn came by with an interesting request. He told al Capone of his plan to get rid of Capone’s rival gang Moran.
Joey Zevnik Professor Hackett College Writing I 11011-81 14 September 2014 Assignment One: Redemption by Blade Should all men be treated fairly as they are, or do people deserve to be discriminated against? In the movie Sling Blade (Thornton 1996), Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thornton), a man born in the south with a learning disability, has been tormented and discriminated against because he is deemed “a retard”. Due to his disability, people treat Karl as an abomination. Not only is Karl mentally challenged, he spent 25 years being institutionalized for killing his mother when he was 12 years old. Whether Karl killed people or was born different does not mean that it defines him, he is still human, and deserves redemption to prove
Explaining My Lai In 1968 the civilians in South Vietnam were killed by American soldiers called Charlie Company. They killed around 350 to 500 unarmed villagers because they were ordered to by William Calley, a platoon leader in Charlie Company. Previous to the massacre Charlie Company had suffered many injuries and 5 deaths due to booby traps, but there were no sight of the people who had set them. Charlie Company were told that after 7:00 am the only people left in the nearby village would be NLF or NLY sympathisers, they were told to leave no one alive, burn houses and crop. When the soldiers attacked the village there was no resistance, only women, children and the elderly who were there, they got brutally murdered and even raped and
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.
Since the vice president was Andrew Johnson he became presindent.12 days after the famous assassination on April 26, 1865 at 2 a.m. about twenty five men arrived at the farm that Booth was at along with his accomplice. Jack Garrett was one of the boys that lived there. He came out to tell the soldiers that the men they looking for are in the barn. The soldiers demanded that Booth come out and surrender but Booth says to come and get him. The soldiers light the barn on fire and one shoots Booth and the side of the neck.
He created a plan to kidnap Lincoln in 1864 where Lincoln was going to see a play in Washington. That plan failed when Lincoln decided to cancel his visit to the play. On April of 1865, 2 days after Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, Booth attended a public meeting where Lincoln proclaimed that he was going in at full force to put an end to slavery. Booth was furious and reassembled most of the crew that was going to kidnap Lincoln to kill Lincoln, vice president Andrew Johnson, and the secretary of state, William Seward (Simkin). All assassinations were to take place at exactly 10:15 P.M. on April 14,
No matter what people tell others about “what goes around comes around”, nothing will ever alter true destiny. One might be very noble and tactful, but if it is meant that something bad will happen to, he or she has no way of turning that around. Instead, the true test of nobility would be determined after one deal with such problems. This was the case in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. This tragedy is compiled of regret, deceit, and redemption.