First exam, 2/19

Question 1

What is a type I assassin?

Answer 1

Motivated by political issues

Question 2

What is a Type II assassin?

Answer 2

Profound, seemingly un resolvable, personal problems

Question 3

What is a type III assassin?

Answer 3

Angry, depressed, always suicidal, isolated, make no attempts to rationalize their actions.

Question 4

What is a type IV assassin?

Answer 4

Sever mental derangement, delusional thinking, insane

Question 5

Who was John Wilkes Booth?

Answer 5

Assassin of Pres. Lincoln, also actor in a big family.

Question 6

Why does Clarke argue that political assassins are misunderstood for the most part?

Answer 6

Everyone assumes they’re insane, Clarke describes why this is not always true.

Question 7

What argument is presented in “The Mad Booths of Maryland” ?

Answer 7

Says he’s just a “self-absorbed acrobatic, noisy alcoholic”

Question 8

Where did the assassination of Lincoln take place?

Answer 8

Took place at Ford Theater, in DC

Question 9

what type of assassin was john wilkes booth?

Answer 9

Type I assassin

Question 10

Who was David Herold?

Answer 10

A co-conspirator, planned to shoot sec. of state Seward, was eventually tried by military court and hung.

Question 11

Who was George Atzerodt?

Answer 11

co-conspirtrator, planned to assassinate VP johnson, got drunk and couldn’t follow through, also tried in military court and hanged.

Question 12

Who was John Suratt?

Answer 12

Got away

Question 13

Who was Samuel Mudd?

Answer 13

Doctor that helped Booth.

Question 14

Who was Mary Suratt?

Answer 14

Also tried by military court and hanged.

Question 15

Who was Samuel Arnold?

Answer 15

Co-conspirator.

Question 16

What was the fate of each of the Lincoln conspirators?

Answer 16

All tried by military court and hanged.

Question 17

Who was Leon Czolgosz?

Answer 17

Assassinated William McKinley (republican)

Question 18

According to Clarke, why did Leon Czolgosz assassinate Pres. McKinley?

Answer 18

political reasons

Question 19

What was the Haymarket Square Bombing?

Answer 19

8 anarchists for crime, major news story, providing a catalyst for bitter disputes that divided capital and labor.

Question 20

How did the 1896 presidential election affect Czolgosz?

Answer 20

Confirmed what they (Waldek & Frank) had been reading about and discussing, that the oppressive corporate structure in America could only be changed through revolution. They read about this in anarchist journals.

Question 21

What was the Lattimer Mines Massacre of 1897?

Answer 21

Workers were peacefully protesting, sheriff and his men started shooting, it lasted 1-5 minutes leaving 19 dead and 39 wounded.

Question 22

Who was Sirhan Sirhan?

Answer 22

Type I assassin of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy

Question 23

According to Clarke, why did Sirhan Sirhan assassinate Robert Kennedy?

Answer 23

Kennedy supported Israel and Sirhan didn’t, Sirhan saw that Kennedy was going to be the president, he decided he had to stop him.

Question 24

What occurred at the Ambassador Hotel in June 1968?

Answer 24

Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan, but there are many conspiracies surrounding the event.

Question 25

What was the six day war?

Answer 25

A war between Egypt & Israel, Kennedy supported Israel and sent over 50 bombs.

Question 26

What was the result of the Sirhan Sirhan Trial?

Answer 26

He was found guilty and sentenced to death in a gas chamber, but now serving life at a prison in San Diego.

Question 27

Who were Collazo and Torresola?

Answer 27

Both from Puerto Rico, type I assassins, attempted to kill Truman but killed an officer instead.

Question 28

Why was an assassination attempt made on the life of President Truman?

Answer 28

They felt Puerto Rico was being oppressed by a colonial government, it was nothing personal against Truman himself.

Question 29

What was the result of the Oscar Collazo trial?

Answer 29

The insanity plea was rejected, he was sentenced to prison for life, died in 1998.

Question 30

What was the fate of Griselio Torresola?

Answer 30

Shot and killed.

Question 31

Edward M. Stanton

Answer 31

Profited greatly from Lincoln's assassination, was his sec. of war. Made it so there was only 1 bodyguard with them in the president's box at the theater, despite the threats against Lincoln and Lincoln asking for more security.

Question 32

Boston Corbett

Answer 32

Crazy, castrated himself, shot Booth in a burning barn, (girl or boy?)

Question 33

According to Vankin and Whalen, which individual is believed to be at the center of the Lincoln Conspiracies?

Answer 33

Edward M. Stanton.

Question 34

What is a Manchurian Candidate?

Answer 34

Brainwashed/convinced/in a trance into committing actions they wouldn't otherwise commit, like murder.

Question 35

Who is Nina Rhodes-Hughes and what was her connection to the RFK assassination?

Answer 35

She heard 2 gunshots firing, believes there was another gunman, authorities altered her account of the crime.