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Speaker 1: There's no place in America for this kind of violence,
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Speaker 1: or any violence for that matter.
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Speaker 2: The central premise of the Biden campaign is that Donald
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Speaker 2: Trump is an authoritarian fascist.
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Speaker 3: It must be stopped at all costs.
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Speaker 2: That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempt at assassination.
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Speaker 4: Hey, he's a beast, and he's ready to fight for
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Speaker 4: this nation. He's ready to fight for us, and he's
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Speaker 4: in it to win it.
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Speaker 1: An assassination attempt is contrary to everything we stand for
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Speaker 1: as a nation. Everything.
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Speaker 5: In the shadows of power, where decisions shape nations and destinies,
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Speaker 5: there lies a dark, sinister force, a force that silences dissent,
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Speaker 5: eliminates opposition, and alters the course of history with the
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Speaker 5: pull of a trigger or the thrust of a blade.
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Speaker 5: What happens to the world when a notorious figure is assassinated,
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Speaker 5: and what happens when they survive.
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Speaker 4: There's no doubt about the fact that we are horribly
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Speaker 4: divine nation right now.
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Speaker 6: Politically, the Butler Farm Showground doesn't have the look of
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Speaker 6: a place which shapes history. But what happened beneath the
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Speaker 6: flag of this nation could define this nation's future.
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Speaker 5: The attempt on Donald Trump's life on July thirteenth at
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Speaker 5: the Pennsylvania Rally is a stark reminder of the risks
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Speaker 5: involved with representing an ideology to the masses.
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Speaker 7: Take a look at what happened.
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Speaker 5: The attack was carried out by twenty year Thomas Matthew Crooks,
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Speaker 5: who was perched on a roof around one hundred and
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Speaker 5: thirty five meters away. He shot multiple times with an
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Speaker 5: ar rifle, hitting Trump in the ear. Two people were
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Speaker 5: injured in the attack, and Corey Comparatore, a fifty year
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Speaker 5: old fire chief, was killed trying to protect his family.
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Speaker 8: So hearing this is a little jarring, especially with them
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Speaker 8: saying they found explosive it's in his car. That being
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Speaker 8: a block away is quite terrifying.
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Speaker 9: It's hard to think that someone that grew up and
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Speaker 9: graduated from the school that I go to now could
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Speaker 9: do something like this, and not only that live across
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Speaker 9: the street from it.
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Speaker 6: When Crooks grew up, neighbors had tried to reconcile the
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Speaker 6: quiet boy who would waive but not speak with a
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Speaker 6: would be killer.
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Speaker 10: With this assassination in sent I feel like it's going
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Speaker 10: to swing everything in his way.
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Speaker 8: I think this is probably going to fire up a
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Speaker 8: lot of people that support him who were already pretty
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Speaker 8: fired up.
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Speaker 11: You know, his head is turned hop hop pop pump.
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Speaker 12: It threatens to deepen the rift across this country already.
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Speaker 6: The events here are the subject of wild conspiracy theories.
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Speaker 5: The motivations behind political assassinations are diverse and complex, reflecting
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Speaker 5: the intricate web of power, ideology, revenge, state interests, economic concerns,
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Speaker 5: social factors, and personal psychology.
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Speaker 13: President Trump is making not just a comeback, but a
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Speaker 13: reassessment of the world and the things that have happened
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Speaker 13: to him.
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Speaker 14: The stake short too her, The stake short too her.
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Speaker 5: Each assassination carries its own unique context and consequences, often
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Speaker 5: reshaping the course of history in unpredictable ways. By understanding
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Speaker 5: these motivations, we gain deeper insights into the dark undercurrents
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Speaker 5: of political life and the profound impact of these violent
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Speaker 5: acts on the world stage.
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Speaker 15: Nobody should have to go through that. And so until
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Speaker 15: he put his fist up, and even after, I was
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Speaker 15: so concerned because you just didn't know what was going on. So, yeah,
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Speaker 15: that was very heart wrenching for America. I remember my
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Speaker 15: mom going through the assassination of JFK and I just
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Speaker 15: don't think it's anything. It's something that nobody should experience.
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Speaker 6: Done on the ground, shot in the ear.
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Speaker 16: Many people at the rally said, while we were leaving,
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Speaker 16: don would trump one the election.
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Speaker 5: Every assassination has left its mark in history, one way
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Speaker 5: or another. In every corner of the world, the greatest
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Speaker 5: decisions have always had something in common. They are nearly
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Speaker 5: always surrounded by death. In two thousand and seven, former
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Speaker 5: Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto was assassinated during a
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Speaker 5: political rally in rawal Pindi. A fifteen year old suicide
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Speaker 5: bomber named Bellal plunged Pakistan into a state of turmoil
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Speaker 5: and had lasting effects on its political landscape.
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Speaker 10: Extremists and militants feared that Pakistan would no longer be
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Speaker 10: a safe haven for them, and they tried to prevent
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Speaker 10: my party coming to power, to prevent me from coming
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Speaker 10: to pa with this attack.
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Speaker 1: Long live Bhutto, her supporters shouted today. Bhutto is alive.
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Speaker 1: Her killer must pay the price for her blood. Who
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Speaker 1: will fuel the anger of protesters both here at the
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Speaker 1: scene of the prime and around the country to feel
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Speaker 1: that they've been lied to by the government, but there's
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Speaker 1: been a deliberate cover up of what amounts to a
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Speaker 1: massive security failure to protect this country. He's best known politician.
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Speaker 7: President on his way to honor the man he calls
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Speaker 7: a martyr for peace with him, former Presidents Bush and Carter,
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Speaker 7: and almost the entire political establishment of America.
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Speaker 5: In nineteen ninety five, Israeli Prime Minister Jitsak Rabin was
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Speaker 5: assassinated by Yigal Amir, an Israeli ulternationalist. His death dealt
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Speaker 5: a severe blow to the Israeli Palestinian peace process, a
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Speaker 5: conflict which continues to escalate in violence to this day.
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Speaker 5: Every cruel, radical decision has a long lasting impact for me.
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Speaker 17: Peace is first the readiness of the leaders to reconcile,
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Speaker 17: and I stress to reconcile with the existence of his way,
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Speaker 17: because the essence of peace is the reconciliation with the
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Speaker 17: existence of one of the other one.
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Speaker 18: It has been an extraordinary day for the Palestinians of
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Speaker 18: Kassal City, but it is still not clear if the
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Speaker 18: peace process has really advanced.
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Speaker 19: The Prime Minister went to Brighton police station to tell
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Speaker 19: newsmen about her own escape. She was awake and had just.
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Speaker 9: Completed work on her conference speech when the bomb went off.
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Speaker 5: The assassination attempt on Margaret Thatcher occurred when the Provisional
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Speaker 5: Irish Republican Army bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England.
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Speaker 5: Thatcher was staying at the hotel for the Conservative Party conference.
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Speaker 5: The primary motivation for the IRA's attempt to assassinate Margaret
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Speaker 5: Thatcher was the ongoing conflict in Northern Ireland known as
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Speaker 5: the Troubles.
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Speaker 20: Today, for the first time in two decades, soldiers walked
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Speaker 20: the streets of West Belfast with no need to fear
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Speaker 20: the IRA. They're not going home yet and may not
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Speaker 20: for a long time, but it still must be hard
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Speaker 20: to believe.
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Speaker 5: This conflict was marked by violent clashes between those who
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Speaker 5: wanted Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom. Thatcher,
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Speaker 5: as the British Prime Minister, was seen as a key
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Speaker 5: symbol of British authority and resistance to the IRA's objectives.
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Speaker 5: The assassination attempt, while failing to kill Thatcher, had significant repercussions.
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Speaker 5: It highlighted the ongoing severity of the conflict in Northern
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Speaker 5: Ireland and the lengths to which the IRA was willing
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Speaker 5: to go to achieve their objectives.
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Speaker 21: My husband was in bed and all the windows went
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Speaker 21: and the bathroom was extremely badly damaged. Yes, yes we were.
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Speaker 6: We were very lucky.
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Speaker 21: You hear about these atrocities, these bombs. You don't expect
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Speaker 21: them to happen to you. But life must go on
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Speaker 21: as usual.
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Speaker 22: And your conference will on.
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Speaker 5: Thatcher's survival and subsequent response reaffirming her resolve against terrorism,
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Speaker 5: also reinforced her image as the Iron Lady. Resilience is
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Speaker 5: a common theme. Whilst not everyone will side with an individual,
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Speaker 5: it takes a radical mindset to attempt to kill the
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Speaker 5: embodiment of a philosophy.
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Speaker 14: This government will not weaken, This nation will.
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Speaker 20: Meet that challenge.
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Speaker 23: Democracy will prevail.
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Speaker 20: Stop evening.
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Speaker 24: And it was really great, father, and nice to say
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Speaker 24: Henry Cato too.
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Speaker 25: Just to recap. Then there has been an assassination attempt
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Speaker 25: on President Reagan.
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Speaker 24: But if history teaches anything it teaches that simple minded
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Speaker 24: appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries folly. It means
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Speaker 24: the betrayal of our pass, the squandering.
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Speaker 5: Of our freedom.
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Speaker 24: So I urge you to speak out against those who
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Speaker 24: would place the United States in the position of military
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Speaker 24: and moral inferiority.
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Speaker 5: John Hinckley Junior waited outside the Washington Hilton Hotel where
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Speaker 5: President Reagan was delivering a speech. As Reagan exited the hotel,
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Speaker 5: Hinckley fired six shots, wounding the president, Press Secretary James Brady,
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Speaker 5: Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy, and police officer Thomas Delahanty.
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Speaker 25: The President has been hit. He has a wound, we
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Speaker 25: believe in his upper shoulder. His condition, according to the
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Speaker 25: White House.
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Speaker 7: Is stable.
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Speaker 25: We do not believe that the President's life is in
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Speaker 25: any danger. His assailant is in custody or his suspected
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Speaker 25: assailant is in custody. For news on that assailant and
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Speaker 25: for news of any possible motive, were still waiting. This
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Speaker 25: is Norman Reese News at ten in Washington.
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Speaker 5: Reagan was hit by a ricochet bullet that lodged near
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Speaker 5: his heart, but he survived the attack after prompt medical intervention.
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Speaker 5: The motivations behind this attempt were markedly different from many
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Speaker 5: political assassinations, as they were not rooted in political ideology
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Speaker 5: or conflict.
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Speaker 24: How high is the price of freedom, but also how
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Speaker 24: much it is worth that price.
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Speaker 5: Instead, the attempt was driven by the personal and psychological
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Speaker 5: issues of the assailant. The primary motivation behind Hinckley's attempt
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Speaker 5: to assassinate President Ronald Reagan was his obsession with actress
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Speaker 5: Jody Foster.
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Speaker 23: I had the delusion back in nineteen eighty one, did
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Speaker 23: by shooting the president, I can impress Jody Foster, which
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Speaker 23: to me, saying that now is it's ridiculous, but that's
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Speaker 23: what I believe back then. It was in ways like
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Speaker 23: a suicide attempt.
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Speaker 5: Just this is this is the end of my life.
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Speaker 26: Did you have any.
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Speaker 16: Knowledgerstand that those letters were forwarded to the FBI?
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Speaker 18: When was the first time you knew the FBI was
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Speaker 18: involved in an investigation.
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Speaker 10: Of the Hinckley letters.
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Speaker 5: The first time I knew that the FBI was involved
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Speaker 5: was when somebody called me up and said, please come
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Speaker 5: over and talk to the FBI.
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Speaker 13: That was also at the same moment.
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Speaker 5: I think, maybe ten minutes later.
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Speaker 27: When I heard about the whole Reagan deal.
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Speaker 13: I didn't know anything about it until that point.
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Speaker 5: Hinckley began to stalk Foster, enrolling in a writing course
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Speaker 5: at Yale University where she was a student, and repeatedly
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Speaker 5: tried to contact her. When his attempts to win her
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Speaker 5: attention and affection. Failed, Hinckley conceived the idea of assassinating
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Speaker 5: the President of the United States to impress her, believing
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Speaker 5: that such a dramatic act would capture her attention and
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Speaker 5: demonstrate his worthiness. Propaganda efforts can control the flow of information,
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Speaker 5: highlighting certain details while downplaying or ignoring others to shape
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Speaker 5: public State controlled media often play a pivotal role in
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Speaker 5: this aspect.
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Speaker 28: The X ray was taken at seven o'clock this morning.
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Speaker 28: The results were apparently red, and it was known at
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Speaker 28: least a couple of hours ago that the President would
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Speaker 28: be getting out. Doctor O'Leary warned that he might look
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Speaker 28: a little bit thinner. And here he comes now, dressed
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Speaker 28: in his dressed in a red sweater, and he's coming
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Speaker 28: out the front door with his daughter, Patty Davis and
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Speaker 28: Missus Reagan on his arm, both dressed in red. What
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Speaker 28: are you gonna do when you get home, mister President.
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Speaker 5: What are you gonna do when you get home?
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Speaker 9: Sit down?
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Speaker 29: After twelve days, the President back here at the White House.
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Speaker 29: He of course, was expected to be here twelve days
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Speaker 29: ago at about two point thirty in the afternoon. That's
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Speaker 29: when the assassin's bullet rang out, and of course the
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Speaker 29: President then was taken immediately to George Washington Hospital.
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Speaker 5: Reagan's survival and recovery boosted his popularity and had significant
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Speaker 5: implications for his presidency and public perception.
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Speaker 14: Pledge we all made them is still true, and we're
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Speaker 14: going to keep that pledge, and that is to have
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Speaker 14: a government that will be of the people of California.
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Speaker 14: Artisanship them dez of today.
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Speaker 5: Reagan's secretary James Brady and his wife Sarah became leading
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Speaker 5: advocates for gun control. Their efforts, culminating in the Brady Bill,
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Speaker 5: left a lasting legacy in the fight for more stringent
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Speaker 5: gun laws in the United States.
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Speaker 24: As the next requirement for a program for peace, I
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Speaker 24: would assign a high priority to strategic arms reduction.
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Speaker 16: Under normal circumstances, President Ford to be expected to.
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Speaker 12: Carry this state very easily.
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Speaker 26: This is Michigan and this is his home state. Are
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Speaker 26: not quite normal times.
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Speaker 12: Because mister Reagan is doing very well, and so President
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Speaker 12: vawd is having to fight for every vote that he
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Speaker 12: can get.
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Speaker 5: Yet, there were two assassination attempts on President Gerald Ford
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Speaker 5: in nineteen seventy five, both within the span of less
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Speaker 5: than three weeks.
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Speaker 16: I now solemnly reaffirm my promise I made you last
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Speaker 16: December six, to uphold the Constitution, to do what is
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Speaker 16: right as God gives me, to see the right, and
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Speaker 16: to do the very best I can for America.
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Speaker 5: Lynette, from a devoted follower of Charles Manson and a
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Speaker 5: member of the Manson family, approached President Ford with a
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Speaker 5: point four or five caliber semi automatic pistol as he
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Speaker 5: was walking towards the California State Capitol to meet with
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Speaker 5: Governor Jerry Brown.
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Speaker 30: He saw the hand of a woman come up between
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Speaker 30: two people and the proud and she was pushing her
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Speaker 30: way through the.
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Speaker 5: Crab And just about that time there was another person, a.
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Speaker 3: Redheaded woman, moved toward him.
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Speaker 27: I couldn't see what she was doing, but all at
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Speaker 27: once the President made a motion like this, as if
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Speaker 27: he punched her, pinched or something.
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Speaker 30: Agent Bundor reached and grabbed the gun with his right hand,
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Speaker 30: grabbed her arm with his left hand, twisted, of course,
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Speaker 30: her arm down, and twisted the gun out of her hand,
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Speaker 30: and he took possession of the gun.
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Speaker 5: Lynette's attempt on the President's life was due to Manson's
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Speaker 5: influence His helter skelter ideals opposed world leaders. This, alongside
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Speaker 5: Lynnette's passion for environmental concerns, led her to attempt the
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Speaker 5: violent deed.
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Speaker 25: You've got it stuck in your brain that I murdered somebody.
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Speaker 5: What do you want to call me a murderer for?
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Speaker 7: I've never killed anyone. I don't need to kill anyone.
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Speaker 5: I think it.
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Speaker 7: I have it here.
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Speaker 24: You know, if I wanted to kill somebody.
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Speaker 19: I'd take this book and beat you to death with it,
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Speaker 19: and I wouldn't feel a thing.
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Speaker 5: It'd be just like.
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Speaker 22: Walking to the drug store.
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Speaker 5: Do you feel blame? Are you mad?
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Speaker 22: Do you feel like wolfskebab vantage frenish boo?
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Speaker 5: They are ramach Google?
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Speaker 31: Do you boogie up?
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Speaker 14: A battle fight?
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Speaker 2: A vitage to Athabaga.
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Speaker 5: The second assassination attempt on Ford's life was carried out
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Speaker 5: by Sarah Jane Moore, a political radical and former FBI informant.
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Speaker 5: Sarah stood among a crowd outside the Saint Francis Hotel
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Speaker 5: where President Ford was leaving after a meeting. Moore fired
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Speaker 5: a single shot from a point three eight caliber revolver
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Speaker 5: at Ford from about forty feet away, but missed him
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Speaker 5: due to a heroic bystander Oliver Sipple, who intervened by
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Speaker 5: grabbing her arm as she fired.
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Speaker 17: What drove you to want to try to assassinate president four?
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Speaker 11: Well, everybody asks that. And the thing is that everybody
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Speaker 11: was talking about it. They said, where did you get
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Speaker 11: the idea? I don't know about the rest of the country,
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Speaker 11: but in San Francisco people were saying this all the time.
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Speaker 11: Number One, we elect our presidents, we don't appoint them.
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Speaker 11: And Gerald Ford was appointed, and he was appointed by
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Speaker 11: a cook. If you will pardon the expression.
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Speaker 5: Moore was motivated by radical political beliefs. She later claimed
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Speaker 5: she had been driven by a desire to make a
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Speaker 5: political statement and had become disillusioned with the US government.
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Speaker 5: The attempts on Ford's life led to an outpouring of
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Speaker 5: public support for the president, and increased his visibility and
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Speaker 5: interactions with the public, albeit under tighter security.
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Speaker 3: In a group of pens. As result, for the Kennedys,
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Speaker 3: and the Attorney General is entrusted with a half.
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Speaker 5: Dozen Robert F. Kennedy was campaigning for the Democratic nomination
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Speaker 5: for President of the United States in nineteen sixty eight.
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Speaker 5: He had just won the California primary, a significant victory
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Speaker 5: that bolstered his chances of securing the nomination.
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Speaker 27: I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose.
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Speaker 2: Any man, but to proposed new policy.
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Speaker 16: I run because I am convinced that this country is
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Speaker 16: on a peril at court, and because I have the
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Speaker 16: strong feelings.
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Speaker 3: About that could be done.
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Speaker 27: I feel that I'm glad to do all that I can.
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Speaker 5: Kennedy was at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California,
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Speaker 5: after delivering a victory speech in the hotel's embassy ballroom.
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Speaker 5: He planned to leave the hotel through the kitchen pantry
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Speaker 5: area to avoid the crowds. Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a twenty
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Speaker 5: four year old Palestinian Arab, was waiting in the kitchen
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Speaker 5: pantry area. As Kennedy walked through. Sirhan stepped forward and
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Speaker 5: fired a point twenty two caliber revolver. Kennedy was shot
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Speaker 5: multiple times. The fatal bullet entered behind his right ear,
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Speaker 5: passed through his brain, and exited near the back of
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Speaker 5: his skull. Several others in the vicinity were also injured.
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Speaker 5: Sir Han harbored deep seated anger and resentment toward Kennedy.
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Speaker 5: He was particularly incensed by Kennedy's pro Israel stance and
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Speaker 5: support for the U s decision to send military aid
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Speaker 5: to Israel, sir Han felt personally and politically compelled to
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Speaker 5: act against Kennedy. Sirhan was convicted of the murder of
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Speaker 5: Robert F. Kennedy and sentenced to death in April nineteen
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Speaker 5: sixty nine. However, in nineteen seventy two, his wad the
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Speaker 5: sentence was commuted to life imprisonment after the California Supreme
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Speaker 5: Court invalidated the state's death penalty laws.
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Speaker 26: With the assassination of Robert Kennedy in June nineteen sixty eight,
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Speaker 26: there's a really interesting and important what if question to
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Speaker 26: consider an American politics in the previous third of a century.
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Speaker 26: Let's say back to nineteen thirty two, there'd basically been
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Speaker 26: a liberal consensus in American politics. Franklin Roosevelt's elections president
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Speaker 26: in nineteen thirty two created a period of Democratic Party
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Speaker 26: dominance after a long period of the Republican Party dominance,
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Speaker 26: and creates a liberal consensus in America where most Americans
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Speaker 26: are in favor of an activist federal government which tries to,
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Speaker 26: you know, bring about prosperity but also social justice. In
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Speaker 26: all that period from thirty one wards, had only been
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Speaker 26: one Republican president, and that was Dwight Eisenhower, who was
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Speaker 26: largely elected because he was a military hero. Nineteen sixty
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Speaker 26: eight is a turning point in American political history. Because
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Speaker 26: of nineteen sixty eight, Richard Nixon, Republican, is elected president.
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Speaker 26: The argument can be made that had Robert Kendy not
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Speaker 26: been assassinated, you know, could he have won the nineteen
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Speaker 26: sixty eight election. I think that the tough thing would
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Speaker 26: have been winning the Democratic nomination, But I think had
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Speaker 26: he got it, he really would have had a very
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Speaker 26: good chance against Nixon. He had all of that Kennedy glamour,
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Speaker 26: Kennedy mystique, and in terms of the popular vote, Nixon's
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Speaker 26: victory over Humphrey was close. So I think there's a
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Speaker 26: really great likelihood that had he got the Democratic nomination,
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Speaker 26: he would have won the presidency. It's interesting to consider
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Speaker 26: that to what extent of the assassination of Robert Kennedy
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Speaker 26: effect the longer term trajectory of American political history. Would
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Speaker 26: the shift to the right, the shift to a more
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Speaker 26: conservative brand of politics that dominated America the next quarter
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Speaker 26: of the century would there have been different had Robert
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Speaker 26: Kennedy not been assassinated in June nineteen sixty eight.
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Speaker 5: Kennedy's death led to an outpouring of grief and mourning.
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Speaker 5: His funeral was held at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New
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Speaker 5: York City, and he was buried at Arlington National Cemetery
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Speaker 5: near his brother. Kennedy's assassination significantly impacted the nineteen sixty
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Speaker 5: eight presidential race. Many believed that had he lived, he
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Speaker 5: might have secured the Democratic nomination and potentially won the presidency.
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Speaker 5: Media coverage of political assassinations profoundly influences public perception and
23:40
Speaker 5: political discourse. The way these events are reported can shape narratives,
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Speaker 5: sway public opinion, and affect political landscapes. Media coverage can
23:49
Speaker 5: influence public demand for policy responses, such as increased security measures,
23:54
Speaker 5: gun control laws, or new legislation addressing underlying issues. The
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Speaker 5: assassination of Robert F. Kennedy contributed to the passage of
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Speaker 5: the Gun Control Act of nineteen sixty eight. Being a
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Speaker 5: martyr involves profound commitment to one's beliefs, often resulting in
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Speaker 5: sacrifice and suffering. Martyrdom is a concept that transcends individual actions,
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Speaker 5: becoming symbolic of larger movements, causes, or ideals. It represents
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Speaker 5: the ultimate expression of dedication, courage, and conviction in the
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Speaker 5: face of adversity or persecution.
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Speaker 32: With this faith, we will be able to transform the
24:43
Speaker 32: tangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
24:48
Speaker 32: With this faith, we will be able to work together,
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Speaker 32: to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together,
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Speaker 32: to stand up for freedom, together, knowing that we will
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Speaker 32: be what name.
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Speaker 5: Doctor Martin Luther King Junior was assassinated on April fourth,
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Speaker 5: nineteen sixty eight, in Memphis, Tennessee. The assassination of this
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Speaker 5: prominent civil rights leader had profound impacts on the United
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Speaker 5: States and the civil rights movement.
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Speaker 18: I do plan to stir up trouble in some of
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Speaker 18: the big cities in our country this summer, but my
25:28
Speaker 18: stirring up trouble will be righteous trouble to bring about
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Speaker 18: non violent solutions. There is no doubt about the despat
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Speaker 18: in the Negro community, and I don't think we deal
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Speaker 18: with that despair by doing nothing. We've got to have
25:46
Speaker 18: out let the pitch. People can channelize a legitimate discontent.
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Speaker 5: In the early evening. King was standing on the balcony
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Speaker 5: outside his room, Room three hundred and six at the
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Speaker 5: Lorraine Motel. He was preparing to leave for dinner with colleagues.
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Speaker 5: At approximately six to h one PM, a single bullet
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Speaker 5: struck King. The shot was fired from a rooming house
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Speaker 5: across the street from the motel. The bullet entered through
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Speaker 5: his right cheek, traveled through his neck, and lodged in
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Speaker 5: his shoulder. Despite emergency surgery, King was pronounced dead at
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Speaker 5: seven o five pm. He was thirty nine years old.
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Speaker 33: I was deeply saddened last evening, as all men of
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Speaker 33: goodwill must have been, by the senseless slaying of doctor
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Speaker 33: Martin Luther King. He was a symbol of nonviolence, and
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Speaker 33: I hope and pray that his end would in some
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Speaker 33: way bring people together so that we could solve the
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Speaker 33: many serious problems of human relations that face us in
26:47
Speaker 33: this country of ours today in a non violent manner.
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Speaker 34: The death of Mardin Luther King is a great tragedy,
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Speaker 34: not only people of the United States, but for all
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Speaker 34: of us throughout the world. I couldn't foretell out would be,
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Speaker 34: but we've lost a very wise councilor and a very
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Speaker 34: constructive figure, very constructive states, I said, doctor King.
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Speaker 5: That was it, I said, doctor King. Just as he
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Speaker 5: straightened up, said doctor King. And the bullet exploded in
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Speaker 5: his face.
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Speaker 29: And ever then they came from this direction because he
27:21
Speaker 29: was standing.
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Speaker 10: At an exhue anglow and the bullet.
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Speaker 32: Knocked him up off of his street in that direction
27:27
Speaker 32: against that letcher over there, and we walked knocked him
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Speaker 32: off with his feet.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and we turned around and.
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Speaker 28: Meeting it because we didn't know how many bullets were coming.
27:38
Speaker 5: And but we turned around.
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Speaker 22: Looking, uh, and we.
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Speaker 12: Were looking to see where did it come from?
27:42
Speaker 22: Because you didn't tell, You couldn't tell there was a.
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Speaker 16: Shot shot until it hit his face.
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Speaker 22: It sounded like a stick of dynamite, that large firecracker.
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Speaker 30: Us of rais.
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Speaker 26: Arrest came first from the FBI Chief Edgar Hoover in Washington.
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Speaker 28: He said that Ray was carrying two Canadian pass and
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Speaker 28: a fully loaded pistol when he landed at London from Lisbon.
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Speaker 5: The shooter was found to be James Earl Ray, who
28:07
Speaker 5: was apprehended and sentenced to ninety nine years in prison.
28:10
Speaker 5: King's assassination led to a wave of riots and civil
28:13
Speaker 5: unrest across more than one hundred cities in the United States.
28:17
Speaker 5: This period of turmoil is often referred to as the
28:21
Speaker 5: Holy Weak Uprising. Partly in response to King's assassination and
28:25
Speaker 5: the ensuing civil unrest, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the
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Speaker 5: Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty eight, also known as
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Speaker 5: the Fair Housing Act. This act prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental,
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Speaker 5: and financing of housing. King's legacy continues to influence civil
28:42
Speaker 5: rights movements globally. His philosophy of nonviolence and his fight
28:46
Speaker 5: for racial equality remained central to discussions on civil rights
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Speaker 5: and social justice.
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Speaker 22: The life and legacy of Martin Luther King Junior find
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Speaker 22: meaning in the words of a black slave preacher that
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Speaker 22: he quoted many times. We what we ought to be.
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Speaker 22: We ain't what we want to be. We ain't what
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Speaker 22: we're going to be. But thank god, we ain't what we.
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Speaker 27: Watch little was the name of the man who formerly
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Speaker 27: owned my grandfather as a slave, So I gave it back.
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Speaker 27: In America, I don't think there's any gradual coming together.
29:29
Speaker 27: There may be a gradual coming together at the top.
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Speaker 5: A few hand picked upper cross.
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Speaker 27: Bourgeois negroes are coming together with the so called liberal
29:38
Speaker 27: element in the white community, but at the mass level,
29:41
Speaker 27: I don't think there's any real honest since there coming together,
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Speaker 27: there's anything that's the widening of the gap. A dark
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Speaker 27: page in the annals of America has been written to
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Speaker 27: the crank of an assassin's bullet, A nation born's, the
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Speaker 27: world grieves. The man who became thirty fifth president less
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Speaker 27: than three years ago is dead.
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Speaker 5: The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty fifth President
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Speaker 5: of the United States, is one of the most scrutinized
30:23
Speaker 5: and significant moments in American history. President Kennedy was in
30:29
Speaker 5: Texas to mend political fences among the state's Democratic Party
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Speaker 5: and to lay the groundwork for his nineteen sixty four
30:36
Speaker 5: re election campaign.
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Speaker 33: The events and decisions of the next ten months may
30:43
Speaker 33: well decide the fate of man for the next ten
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Speaker 33: thousand years.
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Speaker 14: There will be no avoiding these events.
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Speaker 13: There will be no appeal.
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Speaker 5: A motorcade through downtown Dallas was part of his visit,
30:57
Speaker 5: intended to allow him to be seen by as many
30:59
Speaker 5: pe people as possible. The motorcade route took Kennedy through
31:03
Speaker 5: Dealey Plaza, a public park in downtown Dallas, the motorcade
31:07
Speaker 5: passed the Texas School Book Depository, a key location in
31:11
Speaker 5: the assassination. A civilian bystander, mister Abraham's appruder, filmed the
31:16
Speaker 5: motorcade with an eight millimere or home movie camera. The
31:19
Speaker 5: assassination took place shortly after twelve thirty pm Central Standard time.
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Speaker 5: It was recorded that the first shot likely missed the
31:26
Speaker 5: motorcade entirely. The second shot struck President Kennedy in the
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Speaker 5: upper back, exited through his throat and hit Texas Governor
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Speaker 5: John Connolly, who was seated in front of Kennedy. The
31:37
Speaker 5: third and fatal shot struck Kennedy in the head, causing
31:40
Speaker 5: massive trauma.
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Speaker 3: A man is captured after he is reported to have
31:49
Speaker 3: killed a policeman. That man is a twenty four year
31:52
Speaker 3: old procastro Texan who once sought Soviet citizenship.
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Speaker 27: He is charged with murder.
31:58
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, the President had been rushed a nearby hospital, where
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Speaker 3: a life lingered as.
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Speaker 5: A waiting world prayed.
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Speaker 3: A half hour later, he was dead, his life crushed
32:08
Speaker 3: like his wife's abandoned bouquet. A shocked nation weeps.
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Speaker 5: The shooter was widely accepted to be Lee Harvey Oswald,
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Speaker 5: who was confirmed as a lone marksman in the Warren Commission,
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Speaker 5: a report established by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Conspiracies have
32:40
Speaker 5: since risen, many stating that there were multiple gunmen. On
32:43
Speaker 5: account of the doctors who tried to save Kennedy's life
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Speaker 5: in Parkland's Hospital, who stated they confirmed an entrance wound
32:49
Speaker 5: on JFK's body which did not match the direction of
32:52
Speaker 5: Oswald's location.
32:54
Speaker 17: The assassin's am is deadly.
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Speaker 5: In nineteen seventy nine, the House Select Committee on Assassinations
33:06
Speaker 5: concluded that Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of
33:09
Speaker 5: a conspiracy, although specifics were not determined. The event left
33:14
Speaker 5: a lasting impression on American consciousness, contributing to the rise
33:17
Speaker 5: of conspiracy theories and skepticism towards the government.
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Speaker 26: If you look at John Kennedy at the time that
33:23
Speaker 26: he's assassinated in downtown Dallas on the twenty second of
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Speaker 26: November nineteen sixty three, and you compare that to the
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Speaker 26: John Kennedy who's inaugurated as president on that freezing cold
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Speaker 26: day on the twentieth of January nineteen sixty one, he's
33:37
Speaker 26: a very different sort of political leader. So in terms
33:40
Speaker 26: of foreign policy. I think the Cuban missile crisis is
33:44
Speaker 26: an educative experience for him. It really changes him. He
33:48
Speaker 26: becomes much more conscious of and concerned about the dangers
33:55
Speaker 26: of the nuclear age.
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Speaker 3: Oswald walks his last mile.
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Speaker 20: Is it?
33:59
Speaker 3: Assailant moves in from the right.
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Speaker 30: He's been shot.
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Speaker 7: He's been shot.
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Speaker 2: Well be shot.
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Speaker 3: Now from another camera, the motion is slowed. The murderer
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Speaker 3: moves in, and here is the shame of all America.
34:21
Speaker 3: As Jack Rubinstein takes the law under himself.
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Speaker 5: Ruby claimed he acted out of anger and sorrow for
34:28
Speaker 5: Kennedy's widow and family.
34:35
Speaker 3: Missus Kennedy begins the long hours of her public grief
34:38
Speaker 3: with the courageous dignity that has marked each moment of
34:41
Speaker 3: her ordeal.
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Speaker 33: Caroline and John seem to mirror their mother's poise.
34:45
Speaker 5: Kennedy's assassination is often seen as a pivotal moment that
34:49
Speaker 5: accelerated the civil rights movement. With his successor, Lyndon B.
34:53
Speaker 5: Johnson pushing through landmarks civil.
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Speaker 3: Rights legislation, President Johnson represents us sorrowing people as he
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Speaker 3: places the wreath marked from President Johnson and the Nation.
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Speaker 26: At the staff of his presidency. He's got pretty hardline
35:08
Speaker 26: views on foreign policy. So you have his attempt to
35:11
Speaker 26: overthrow Castro at the Bay of Pigs.
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Speaker 5: So he launches the Bay of.
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Speaker 26: Pigs invasion of Cuba during the final year of the
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Speaker 26: presidency of Dwight d Ice. Now, in nineteen sixty, secret
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Speaker 26: planning within the CIA for an overthrow Castro was underway,
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Speaker 26: and the basic idea of the plan was to use
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Speaker 26: Cuban emigrat So Cubans who'd been unhappy with Castro that
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Speaker 26: fled Castro's Cuba for the US, in particular Florida, take them,
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Speaker 26: train them, equip them, and send them back into Cuba
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Speaker 26: to stay jq DA tark to overthrow Castro. Kennedy is
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Speaker 26: briefed about this operation during the nineteen sixty campaign, and
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Speaker 26: when he becomes president, that is the first decision, big
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Speaker 26: decision he has to make, is whether to get the
35:52
Speaker 26: go ahead for an invasion of Cuba. At the Bay
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Speaker 26: of Pigs.
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Speaker 2: I held approximately two years up a then resalvation for
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Speaker 2: Fidel Castro himself had been long deferred.
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Speaker 5: He's seen show his triumphal march across the island.
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Speaker 2: In his lifetime, appearded cigar smoking idealist has become a
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Speaker 2: legend most Cubans. This is the first glimpse of the
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Speaker 2: man whose name became a byword months of guerrilla fighting,
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Speaker 2: and he had no clear idea of his beliefs or
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Speaker 2: his program. I knew only of his cause and his
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Speaker 2: personal dedication. Now his words strike terrific enthusiasm.
36:26
Speaker 3: The list military victory Midel was a popular support built
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Speaker 3: in a matter of days by this hero's procession.
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Speaker 26: There's a conversation he had with the New York Times
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Speaker 26: journalists later in nineteen sixty one, and the New York
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Speaker 26: Times journalists scribbled down notes in his journal At the time,
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Speaker 26: he said, I had a conversation with JFK. JFK said
36:44
Speaker 26: that he was under terrific pressure from intelligence people to
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Speaker 26: Okaya Castro murder.
36:51
Speaker 5: Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader, reportedly survived over six hundred
36:55
Speaker 5: assassination attempts, many orchestrated by the CIA an anti Castrous
37:01
Speaker 5: Some of the methods used to kill the leader ranged
37:03
Speaker 5: from a poisoned scuba diving suit to an exploding cigar.
37:08
Speaker 5: Castro's survival contributed to his legendary status and the strained
37:12
Speaker 5: relations between the United States and Cuba during the Cold War.
37:27
Speaker 5: The methods and motivations behind political assassinations differ markedly between
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Speaker 5: democracies and authoritarian regimes, shaped by the respective political landscapes,
37:37
Speaker 5: levels of control, and the intended messages to both domestic
37:41
Speaker 5: and international audiences. Nathurim Godse, a former member of the
37:47
Speaker 5: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sang and a member of the Hindu Mahasaba,
37:51
Speaker 5: believed that eliminating Gandhi would protect Hindu interests and preserve
37:55
Speaker 5: what he considered the rightful Hindu dominance in India. But
37:58
Speaker 5: an idea is something which is not so easily killed.
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Speaker 12: The cause of the First World War that everyone points
38:22
Speaker 12: to is the assassination of Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian
38:26
Speaker 12: nationalist called Gavrilo Prinship. Why does the assassination of an
38:36
Speaker 12: arch duke in Sarajevo necessarily result in people, you know,
38:42
Speaker 12: shelling each other in northern France just a few months later.
38:46
Speaker 12: What connects the dots is a series of treaties that
38:50
Speaker 12: have been signed over the past several years by lots
38:53
Speaker 12: and lots of different countries in Europe and elsewhere that
38:55
Speaker 12: promise each other that they'll back them if they're attacked
39:00
Speaker 12: by someone else. The problem about potential chain reactions and
39:04
Speaker 12: thinking you might not start them is what happens when
39:06
Speaker 12: you do start a chain reaction. What happens when, as
39:10
Speaker 12: a result of the assassination Franz Ferdinand Austria Hungary decides
39:15
Speaker 12: to declare war on Serbia because they're blaming the Serbs
39:19
Speaker 12: for the assassination.
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Speaker 5: Austria Hungary saw this as an opportunity to assert its
39:24
Speaker 5: dominance over Serbia and curb Serbian nationalism. The conflict quickly
39:34
Speaker 5: expanded beyond Europe due to the various colonial possessions and
39:38
Speaker 5: global interests of the major powers. The alliances and treaties
39:42
Speaker 5: dragged more countries into making a truly global war. Political
39:58
Speaker 5: assassinations and attempted to asassinations are potent acts that have
40:02
Speaker 5: repeatedly altered the course of history. The acts date back centuries.
40:06
Speaker 5: They serve as stark reminders of the vulnerabilities inherent in
40:10
Speaker 5: political systems and the profound impact that individual acts of
40:13
Speaker 5: violence can have on society.
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Speaker 9: The attempted assassination of candidate Trump does, in fact affect
40:39
Speaker 9: how the world sees the US. There is some concern
40:43
Speaker 9: rightly about gun ownership in the US.
40:46
Speaker 13: President Trump is making not just a comeback, but a
40:50
Speaker 13: reassessment of the world and the things that have happened
40:54
Speaker 13: to him.
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Speaker 4: When Ronald Reagan was shot, he got a twenty two
40:58
Speaker 4: point bounce in his pulling uppers post the shooting. So
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Speaker 4: I think it changes the game. It really puts the
41:07
Speaker 4: Biden campaign in a very, very tough position.
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Speaker 34: President Joe Biden has just announced that he is dropping
41:13
Speaker 34: out of the twenty twenty four presidential race.
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Speaker 8: He also thanks Vice President Kamala Harris for quote being
41:20
Speaker 8: an extraordinary partner in all of this work.
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Speaker 13: I believe, and I think many others saw that this
41:26
Speaker 13: split second was intervention from God. Thanking God that it
41:32
Speaker 13: wasn't worse than it could have been.
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Speaker 4: Another inch or so and he dead.
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Speaker 19: He's shown clearly after the assassination attempt he's got the
41:43
Speaker 19: heart of a lion.
41:44
Speaker 7: He's got incredible courage and fortitude, and for.
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Speaker 15: Him to get right back up, you know, he really
41:51
Speaker 15: did show his strength his character.
41:54
Speaker 13: It means literally he dodged the bullet. It means literally
41:58
Speaker 13: that he is a lot I've been ready with new
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Speaker 13: vigor to address the issues for the world.
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Speaker 5: The attempted assassination of Donald Trump was seen by many
42:08
Speaker 5: to be a conspiracy, with recordings of the Secret Service
42:11
Speaker 5: being notified of the shooter's location prior to the incident. Yeah,
42:21
Speaker 5: it's on top of the roof.
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Speaker 22: Look here, he is right there, right there them.
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Speaker 30: He's playing down.
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Speaker 33: Yeah, he's playing down.
42:29
Speaker 30: We have.
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Speaker 31: Video obtained by ABC station w t a E, appearing
42:45
Speaker 31: to show the alleged gunman, Thomas Crooks, walking the perimeter
42:48
Speaker 31: of the rally about one hour before the former president
42:51
Speaker 31: was shot, and the Secret Service saw him on that
42:54
Speaker 31: roof a full twenty minutes before he fired at the
42:57
Speaker 31: former president.
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Speaker 5: One can only wonder if events such as this occurred
43:03
Speaker 5: due to a lapse in judgment or whether it's something
43:06
Speaker 5: darker is afoot.
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Speaker 9: One of the concerns on the back of the attempted
43:11
Speaker 9: assassination is the degree to which the American democracy and
43:15
Speaker 9: the democratic process during our elections can be protected. Now,
43:20
Speaker 9: whether the Secret Service or FBI did the job they
43:24
Speaker 9: were meant to do is another concern and another issue.
43:28
Speaker 13: The Secret Service does have a problem, They did have
43:31
Speaker 13: a problem and still do and that is why on
43:34
Speaker 13: Monday in Washington, we will begin the hearings to not
43:39
Speaker 13: just determine what went wrong, but what it's going to
43:41
Speaker 13: take to fix this. When a person can give within
43:44
Speaker 13: one hundred and thirty yards with a sniper rifle with
43:47
Speaker 13: President the United States and then point fingers at not
43:50
Speaker 13: knowing who is responsible, is irresponsible for the Secret Service.
43:56
Speaker 6: The attempted assassination has done nothing to quiet and the
43:59
Speaker 6: venomous tone of American politics. The billboards down the road
44:03
Speaker 6: from the showground now celebrating his survival and fueling the
44:07
Speaker 6: sense that Donald Trump is America's savior.
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Speaker 19: We will make America say again, perhaps we need a
44:17
Speaker 19: bit more legislation around gun control, which is certainly something
44:22
Speaker 19: that former President Obama attempted and is perhaps going to
44:28
Speaker 19: come back on the agenda.
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Speaker 5: Understanding these events within their historical context reveals the complex
44:35
Speaker 5: interplay between power, ideology, and human action, offering valuable lessons
44:40
Speaker 5: on the importance of political stability, security, and the rule
44:44
Speaker 5: of law in preserving democratic societies. Through the lens of
44:49
Speaker 5: notable historical examples, we see how political assassinations have not
44:53
Speaker 5: only changed immediate political landscapes, but also left enduring legacies
44:58
Speaker 5: that continue to shape contemporary societal and political structures,