The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 has been one of the great controversies of the last four decades. A variety of conspiracy theories have been offered to explain the tragedy, from multiple assassins in Dealey Plaza (the site of the killing in Da…
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On Saturday July 2, 1881, Charles J. Guiteau took a revolver to the Washington train station and fired twice at James A. Garfield with the intention of “removing” the president. The government, press, and pulpit responded immediately, offering an array of texts about the meaning…
Graphic Violence explores the role of assassination in contemporary historiographic fiction. The introduction begins by outlining the principal questions, and theoretical concerns, of the project. What kind of crisis does the historiographic endeavor entail for fiction? How does…
The research problem was to take a major political event in American history—the John F. Kennedy assassination—explore major media coverage of the event, and then examine media construction of social issues. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy has two official version…
This thesis sets out to research the phenomenon of political assassinations. Political assassinations are not random acts of folly which defy analysis but are well planned and discriminate acts of violence which, like terrorism, need to be further researched. The central argumen…
Four sitting American Presidents have met their end at the hands of an assassin, and many unsuccessful attempts have been made on others. Our continuing fascination with these macabre public events is consistently reflected in contemporary art and popular culture. Arguably, the …