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Brian Merchant Harper's Dec 2019 30min Permalink
Three decades ago, Olof Palme was assassinated on Stockholm’s busiest street. The case remains unsolved.
Imogen West-Knights The Guardian May 2019 20min Permalink
The intertwined destinies of Siti Aisyah, a 25-year-old devout Muslim villager turned prostitute and eventual assassin, and Kim Jong-nam, who was raised as the heir to the North Korean dictatorship and died in a Malaysian airport.
Doug Bock Clark GQ Sep 2017 30min Permalink
Three targets, two 17-year-old partners, and $15,000 in getaway cash: the story of the author’s first assassination for Ramón Arellano Félix’s Tijuana cartel.
Martin Corona Men's Journal Jun 2017 20min Permalink
The president of the Philippines’ kill list is reputed to have over million names of supposed drug pushers and addicts, including many mayors and politicians. There is no reliable way to get off the list other than dying in a hail of bullets from assassins on motorbikes.
Patrick Symmes New York Times Magazine Jan 2017 15min Permalink
How the 1983 assassination of his father, the president of American University of Beirut, shaped the Golden State Warriors basketball coach.
John Branch New York Times Dec 2016 Permalink
'He collapsed on Granville Road, within 100 meters of the house he was renting for $20,000 a month. Police and medics were called to the scene, but within 30 minutes, Perepilichny was pronounced dead. Police told the press the death was “unexplained.” A 44-year-old man of average build and above-average wealth had simply fallen down and died in the leafy suburb he’d recently begun calling home.'
Jeffrey E. Stern The Atlantic Dec 2016 30min Permalink
The doctor who worked on both Kennedy and Oswald tells his story.
Michael J. Mooney D Magazine Nov 2008 15min Permalink
He drives a Toyota. He eats fro-yo. He takes care of two dozen feral cats.
Editor’s note, 7/27/16: Hinckley has won his freedom and will live full-time with his mother.
Eddie Dean Washingtonian May 2016 20min Permalink
Reconstructing the investigation into Rafik Hariri’s assassination, for which five men stand trial in absentia.
Ronen Bergman New York Times Magazine Feb 2015 35min Permalink
An eyewitness account of Robert Kennedy’s assassination.
Pete Hamill Village Voice Jun 1968 15min Permalink
An investigation into allegations that Rwandan President Paul Kagame is assassinating exiled dissidents.
Geoffrey York, Judi Rever The Globe and Mail May 2014 20min Permalink
Did Remington Chase and Stefan Martirosian “orchestrate” a contract killing in Moscow?
Gene Maddaus LA Weekly Jan 2014 20min Permalink
In the days following Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, more than 100 cities experienced significant civil disturbance. In New York, everyone expected riots. What happened next.
Clay Risen The Morning News Jan 2009 10min Permalink
In November 1985, a woman who appeared to be a homeless drifter staked out the offices of 80-year-old banker Nicholas Deak, waited until he returned from lunch, then executed Deak and his secretary. As police wrestled her to the floor, she said “Don’t hurt me. He told me I could carry the gun.”
Mark Ames, Alexander Zaitchik Salon Dec 2012 25min Permalink
Learning of a plot against the life of the newly elected Lincoln, Alan Pinkerton decamps to Baltimore and infiltrates the conspiracy.
Daniel Stashower Smithsonian Jan 2013 Permalink
Tom Wicker was without a notebook on November 22, 1963. Instead, reported Gay Talese, he “scribbled his observations and facts across the back of a mimeographed itinerary of Kennedy’s two-day tour of Texas.”
Here’s the 3,700-word masterpiece he filed.
Tom Wicker New York Times Nov 1963 15min Permalink
Breaking the news of the Kennedy assassination, an oral history:
Wicker: [In the press room] we received an account from Julian Reed, a staff assistant, of Mrs. John Connally’s recollection of the shooting…. The doctors had hardly left before Hawks came in and told us Mr. Johnson would be sworn in immediately at the airport. We dashed for the press buses, still parked outside. Many a campaign had taught me something about press buses and I ran a little harder, got there first, and went to the wide rear seat. That is the best place on a bus to open up a typewriter and get some work done.
An ex-spook takes on the Warren Commission.
William W. Turner Ramparts Jan 1968 45min Permalink
Last year, an Mossad hit squad traveled to Dubai to assassinate a Hamas leader. They completed their mission, but were later humiliated when a twenty-seven minute video of their movements was posted online. How their cover got blown.
Ronen Bergman GQ Jan 2011 25min Permalink
The story of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, written and published the following week.