assassination

So I've been working on a new project. I was reading up on the two assassination attempts on President Ford, neither of which succeeded. I decided to write a TL with this as the PoD because it has the real potential for a totally different 20th and 21st century. Without further ado I present the...

Inspired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cl%C3%A9ment Furious that Anne Boleyn's execution has not led to reconciliation with Rome, a fanatical Catholic/monk dispossessed by the dissolution of the monasteries(maybe John Hallam, who took part in the 1537 Bigod's Rebellion) determines...

You might have heard of the Stern gang. You know the jewish nazbols, tried to side with nazi germany but were forced to be communists instead. Essentially the reverse Bose. Well they tried to kill the fucking president at the time Harry Truman. Specifically with a mailbomb. Yes I know presidents...

April 10th 1972. Viewers tuning into Gunsmoke at 8 P.M. Eastern Time are interrupted by a CBS News Bulletin bumper at 8:10 Walter Cronkite: "Here is a bulletin from CBS News: In Ottawa, Canada, five shots were fired at President Nixon’s motorcade. The first reports say that President Nixon...

On February 2, 1852, priest Martin Merino Gómez tried to kill the then Queen Isabel II of Spain The queen was deeply wounded and fainted, but she survived What if she died that day

We all know of the famous July 20 Plot, the failed attempt to kill Hitler and use Valkyrie to stage a coup, as well as the assassination attempts by Elser and Bavaud. There are other lesser known attempts too and this one piqued my interest: An attempt to assassinate Hitler was planned for July...

I've been working for a while on a TL with a PoD in 2005, which is obviously the assassination of President Bush as the title suggests. This TL will focus primarily on how the world develops after that. This is the first chapter of that TL. After the Assassination of George W. Bush Chapter...

At Parkland Hospital, following the assassination of President Kennedy a potentially serious dispute arose between the President's security detail and the local coroner for Dallas, Texas one Earl Rose. . Mr. Rose insisted that Kennedy's body was not leaving until there had been a proper...

In 2005, while he was giving a speech in Tblisi, Georgia, US President George W Bush suffered an attempt on his life. Vladimir Arutyunian, an ethnic Armenian, threw a grenade at the podium, hoping to kill both Bush and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. The grenade failed to detonate...

One of the most intense incidents between the two Koreas since the end of the Korean War, the Blue House raid was a failed plan to assassinate South Korean president and de-facto dictator Park Chung-Hee. Unit 124 was entrusted with the mission, and left their garrison at Yonsan on January 16...

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, while probably the most infamous assassination attempt on a president atleast until JFK, was not the first attempt on a president's life. For those that may not be aware, Andrew Jackson was nearly gunned down in 1835 by Richard Lawrence outside of the...

Jiajing Emperor was said to have been a cruel and neglectful emperor. He did a lot of Taoist Alchemy, to make himself immortal. A lot of these alchemy involved palace women, and a lot of the test were cruel to them. IN 1542, this lead to the palace women to conspire and murder the emperor...

Hello everyone, and welcome to the thread for my first official TL, Rawhide Down: The Assassination of Ronald Reagan. This main jist of the TL is to explore the aftermath of the successful assassination of Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981, both domestically and abroad. I will post updates...

Alright, from a recent book I've been reading, Pope Alexander VI wasn't exactly what you're looking for in a Pope today. He and the Borgia family had a stranglehold on the Catholic hierarchy and he wasn't above committing or allowing whatever sin he so chose. My challenge to you is, with a POD...

On July 12, 1947, Senator John W. Bricker was shot at in the Capitol complex by a former Capitol Police officer named William Louis Kaiser. Kaiser was a fellow Ohioan and had petitioned Bricker for help after he lost money in a bank liquidation, to no avail. When arrested, he said he was just...

President Reagan Shot! - NBC News-March 30th 1981 Chaos. The only word that can describe the Capital today. All our nation holds it breath as it awaits an answer to this stunning development. Several citizens of the D.C. area were asked to give comment and the only words that were...

Apparently, there was a plot hatched by a group of Spanish anarchists around september 1948 to snipe dead dictator Francisco Franco from an airplane with a hail of explosives around La Concha Bay in San Sebastian. It failed, but what if Franco had been assassinated that day? How much instability...

Fort Grant Gathersburg, Maryland Thursday, December 1, 1864 Fort Grant was a new camp built to hold the prisoners taken after the Battle of Washington and subsequent siege. It had been built quickly by people who were not inclined to wish the best for those imprisoned inside it...

There was an actual attempt in 1840 on the lives of the newlyweds then expecting their first child. Assuming the child is lost too, the king of Hanover was next in line for the throne at that moment. One supposes an earlier George V means no Prussian conquest of Hanover, which completely blows...

In February 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, issued a judgement (fatwa) that sentenced author Salman Rushdie to death for his controversial book "The Satanic Verses". Numerous threats against the writer (who was living in the UK) and the bookstores selling the book followed...