Playboy's History Of Assassination In America
February, 1976
Playboy's History of Assassination in AmericaPart IIAfter Lincoln, The DelugeAssassination has never changed the history of the world. --Disraeli, On Lincoln's DeathThe demons of assassination politics scourged America and the world following 1865. Booth's death kiss proved aphrodisiacal. In the 49 years from Lincoln's death until the murder of Archduke Francis Ferdinand at Sarajevo in 1914 unleashed the hounds of World War One, one head of state or major minister fell nearly every 18 months.Lin...