Word: assassins
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...professors at the Harvard Medical School testified last week in the trial of John W. Hindley Jr., providing contradictory information about the accused assassin's mental condition when he shot President Reagan and three other victims in an assassination attempt last January...
...year after the attack on the Pope, another assassin tries...
...assailant, but frowning slightly in concern, the Pontiff continued moving up the stairs to circle the altar. Then, unexpectedly, he descended the steps to the site of the incident and lifted his hand in a gesture of benediction. As John Paul gave his blessing, the would-be assassin could be heard still shouting in Spanish as he was led away: "Down with the Pope! Down with Vatican...
...Pope had come to Fátima, ironically, to fulfill a vow of gratitude to the Virgin Mary for having saved his life just a year earlier, when Turkish Assassin Mehmet Ali Agca shot him in St. Peter's Square. That attempt occurred on the very day, May 13, and almost at the same hour that three shepherd children tending their flocks in Fátima claimed to have seen the first of six apparitions of the Virgin, in 1917. To John Paul, his escape from death and his remarkable recovery from his wounds were nothing less than...
...lured Rasputin to his palace and fed him cream cakes laced with cyanide. When the poison failed to take effect, the prince shot him. Left for dead on the floor, Rasputin opened one mad eye, then leaped up in an attempt to strangle his shocked assassin. Another conspirator had to fire more bullets. When the corpse was dragged out of the river near Petrovsky Bridge, water was found in the lungs. In the end, Rasputin may have drowned. Siberian peasants do not die easily...