Elijah P. Lovejoy, (1837), editor of an abolitionist newspaper, the "Alton Observer", by a mob of pro-slavery advocates.
James Strang, (1856), Michigan State Representative and leader of the Strangite Mormon Church.
Abraham Lincoln, (1865), 16th President of the United States.
Tazewell Tyler, (1874), One of John Tyler, the 10th President of the United States's 15 children.
James A. Garfield, (1881), 20th president of the United States.
David Hennessy, (1890), Police Chief of New Orleans.
William Goebel, (1900), governor of Kentucky.
William McKinley, (1901), 25th President of the United States.
Don Mellett, (1926), newspaper editor and campaigner against organized crime.
Walter Liggett, (1935), Minnesota newspaper editor.
Carlo Tresca, (1943), anarchist organizer.
Curtis Chillingworth, (1955), a Florida judge.
John F. Kennedy, (1963), 35th President of the United States.
Medgar Evers, (1963 June 12), U.S. civil rights activist.[1]
Malcolm X, (1965 February 21), black Muslim leader, killed in a Manhattan banquet room as he began a speech.
George Lincoln Rockwell, (1967), founder of the American Nazi Party.
Martin Luther King, Jr., (1968 April 4), U.S. civil rights activist.[1]
Robert F. Kennedy, (1968), leading presidential candidate in the 1968 presidential election, in which he would have succeeded his brother's, John F. Kennedy's, presidential term.
Fred Hampton, (1969), Deputy Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party.
Dan Mitrione, (1970), FBI agent and torture expert, killed by the guerrilla movement Tupamaros.
Marcus Foster, (1973), School District Superintendent in Oakland CA, killed by members of theSymbionese Liberation Army.
Don Bolles, (1976), Investigative reporter for Arizona Republic, killed in car bomb, Max Dunlap and James Robison convicted, alleged Mafia ties.
Orlando Letelier, (1976), Chilean ambassador to the United States under the administration of Salvador Allende.
John Lennon, (1980 December 8), British musician, member of The Beatles, shot and killed by Mark David Chapman.
Alan Berg, (1984), radio talk-show host, killed by Neo-nazis.
Henry Liu, (1984), Taiwanese-American writer, allegedly killed by Kuomintang agents.
Alex Odeh, (1985), Arab anti-discrimination group leader, killed when bomb exploded in his Santa Ana, California office.
Alejandro González Malavé, (1986), famous undercover policeman, in Bayamón, Puerto Rico.
Meir Kahane Founder JDL
Ioan P. Culianu, (1991), Romanian historian of religion, culture, and ideas, professor at the University of Chicago, assassinated there in Swift Hall, apparently for his political writings.
