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Baby boomer remembers pure sorrow over Kennedy's assassination

Last updated Monday, November 19, 2012 - 11:14pm

Hairs on my neck rose as Marcia Smith talked. Tears welled, too. No kidding.

“We did see Air Force One come in for a landing,” she was saying. “And we did see the casket being unloaded. I had a very clear view of Jackie Kennedy in her pink suit with the blood still on it,” her husband’s blood.

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A John Wilkes Booth bobblehead doll, left, is seen for sale alongside a President Abraham Lincoln bobblehead doll at the Gettysburg Museum and Visitors Center Battlefield Bookstore Friday, March 9, 2012 in Gettysburg, Pa. (AP Photo/The Evening Sun, Shane Dunlap)

Gettysburg gift shop yanks bobblehead doll of John Wilkes Booth

Richard Fausset Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 2:46pm

The bookstore at the Gettysburg National Military Park has decided that it's not such a great idea to sell a bobblehead of John Wilkes Booth, the notorious Confederate sympathizer and assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.

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Jan. 12, 2012 -- A 1977 photograph of James Earl Ray, center, that will be auctioned Jan. 28, 2012. The photo is from the archive of Jack Kershaw, an attorney who represented Ray. Kershaw is standing at right. (SHNS photo courtesy Case Antiques Inc. Auctions & Appraisals) Black-and-white photo.

Auction of James Earl Ray items blasted for poor timing

Mike Blackerby The Knoxville News Sentinel

Last updated Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 4:08pm

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The mere mention of James Earl Ray, the man convicted of assassinating civil-rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., still stirs a whirlwind of emotions in Sheryl Rollins, president of the Knoxville chapter of the NAACP.

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This undated photo released by Iranian Fars News Agency, claims to show Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, who they say was killed in a bomb blast in Tehran, Iran, on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012, next to his son. Two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to the car of an Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility, killing him and his driver Wednesday, reports said. The slayings suggest a widening covert effort to set back Iran's atomic program. The blast killed Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, state TV reported. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency)

Another Iranian nuclear scientist killed; Israel blamed

Sheera Frenkel McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Friday, January 13, 2012 - 3:49pm

JERUSALEM -- An Iranian scientist working at a key nuclear facility in that country was killed Wednesday in Tehran, the latest act in what appears to be a widening covert effort to disrupt Iran's nuclear program.

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Stephen King thrills as he time travels to save JFK

Rene Rodriguez McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Monday, November 14, 2011 - 12:29pm

"11/22/63." By Stephen King; Scribner (849 pages, $35)

222The past is also a dangerous, fickle place -- and woe to anyone who dares alter it. That's the mantra coursing through "11/22/63," Stephen King's mammoth, generous and thrilling novel about a man who travels back in time to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

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(MOHAMMAD JAVED/The Associated Press) In this Dec. 27, 2007 file photo, Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto arrives to address to her last public rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Bhutto was assassinated with 20 others in a suicide attack as she left the rally. A Pakistani government prosecutor said Saturday Nov. 5, 2011, a court has indicted seven men on charges of killing country’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto,

Pakistan indicts 2 more in Bhutto’s assassination

Asif Shahzad The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, November 5, 2011 - 4:01pm

ISLAMABAD — Two police officers were indicted Saturday in the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and will face trial along with five members of the Pakistani Taliban, a state prosecutor said.

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(AHMAD JAMSHID/The Associated Press) Afghanistan, Tuesday Sept. 20, 2011. former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani has been killed in suicide attack Tuesday.

Ex-Afghan leader’s assassin waited days to see him

Heidi Vogt, Rahim Faiez The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 7:49am

KABUL, Afghanistan — The suicide bomber who assassinated Afghanistan’s former President Burhanuddin Rabbani insisted on meeting face-to-face with the ex-president and waited in Kabul for days to talk with him about brokering peace with the Taliban, an associate of the former leader said Wednesday.

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Afghan's death deals blow to US peace plan

Hashim Shukor, Jonathan S. Landay McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 5:54pm

KABUL, Afghanistan -- An assassin with a bomb hidden in his turban on Tuesday killed former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, the chairman of the government's peace council, in the latest in a slew of high-profile attacks and a major blow to U.S.-backed efforts to draw Taliban-led insurgents into peace talks.

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Man hospitalized; wife, her boyfriend arrested in Bountiful assault

Jessica Miller

Last updated Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 9:36am

BOUNTIFUL — A man is in the hospital after police say he was assaulted by his wife and her boyfriend early this morning on a Bountiful hillside.

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Pakistani Christian mourners carry the casket of their slain leader Shahbaz Bhatti for funeral at his native village Khushpur near Faisalabad, Pakistan on Friday, March 4, 2011. Shirtless men beat their chests and women wailed in grief as the body of a Christian politician killed for opposing Pakistan's harsh blasphemy laws was buried in his home village. In the capital, the prime minister promised mourners at a funeral Mass that the government would do its utmost to bring the assassins to justice. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan troubles 03-04-11

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 4, 2011 - 12:14pm

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Sermons motivated killer of Pakistani politician

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 10, 2011 - 10:06am

ISLAMABAD -- The confessed killer of a liberal Pakistani politician provided a judge Monday with the names of two men whose sermons allegedly sparked him to act, as YouTube footage emerged of the assassin chanting Islamic verses in police custody.

The slaying of Punjab province Gov. Salman Taseer nearly a week ago shocked many around the world, but tens of thousands of Pakistanis have expressed support for 26-year-old Mumtaz Qadri, who said he killed the governor for criticizing laws that carry the death penalty for insulting Islam.

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Pakistani governor opposed to blasphemy law assassinated

Los Angeles Times, Luara King, Nasir Khan

Last updated Tuesday, January 4, 2011 - 2:18pm

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, and KABUL, Afghanistan -- The governor of Pakistan's most populous province was gunned down in an upscale Islamabad marketplace Tuesday, apparently by one of his own guards, a brazen killing that threw a country already roiled by political crisis into even greater turmoil.

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