ASSASINATION JOHN LENNON

               

 He was born in Liverpool on the date 9 October 1940. Both of his parents divorced when he was five. His father Alf abandoning the family and his mother Julia found her unable to raise him by her own. His mother left her with his aunt Mimi. He lost his mother, Julia in one car accident when he was seventeen.  Later, he went to art school but then he decided to quit the school and then he form a band that been given named as The Silver Beetles. He formed the band together with McCartney and Gorge Harrison.

        

In the year 1963, he got married to his current girlfriend that time Cynthia Powell. He had a son with Cynthia that they named as Julian. The Silver Beetles was then changed to become ‘The Beatles’. The bands become phenomena during the late sixties. He then divorced his wife and remarried to Yuko Ono. After he married to Yuko Ono, his wife was believed to control him and his band ‘The Beatles’. He later got separate from his band due to his wife attitude that too control.

             

His killer was his own fan. His name is Mark Chapman. He was a married man that had married Japanese American wife, Gloria. He was too obsess all about John Lennon and he was believed to have an unstable mental that led him to act to become the John Lennon killer. He rather to wait for John Lennon for hours just to get his signature.

           

John Lennon had a show at Dakota building. As he finished with his show, Mark Chapman was waiting for him outside the Dakota building. At around 10.50 p.m. John and Yuko arrived and Yuko Ono got out of the white limousine first. His killer than pulled out his pistol from his pocket and start to shot towards John Lennon. John Lennon tried to get away from the gun, but four of the five bullets hit him. Even though he managed to run to the gatekeeper’s station and he said to the guards “I’m shot”, before he fell his face down.

            

Meanwhile, Mark Chapman just stayed at the same place he shot John Lennon. He got out his book The Catcher in The Rye and then he started to read while waiting for the police to come and arrest him. When the police arrived, he put up his hands in the air and he said to the police “I acted alone”.  John Lennon was rushed in a police car to hospital but died soon after he arrived to the hospital.

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ASSASSINATION MAHATMA GANDHI

Mohandas Karamchad Gandi was born in the year 1869 in Paorbander. He used to study law in London and also England. He started his early career as a lawyer in Bombay but then he went to South Africa and he did a protest against the government for Indian immigrants’ rights at South Africa. On the year 1915, he went back to India and he started his career as a politicians. He against the British Government and form the Indian National Congress.

              

  After a few years of his political career, Gandi started to think about independent for India from the British Government. In order his dream that want to achieve independent for India there was a problem that he faced which was the antipathy that was existent between Indian Hindus and Muslims. He was condemned for weakening Hindus’ political power through his belief in the equality of all religious faiths. Although Gandi received many critics he still regarded as the father of Indian Independent.

              

  On the 30^th January 1948, India had lost one of the most wonderful leaders that also very well known as father of Indian Independent. Gandi was in his way to the Birla House to perform his prayer meeting. He always to visit Birla House when he was in New Delhi. Sharp at 5pm, people started to gather for the prayer meeting. Gandi was believed arrive to the prayer meeting location about twelve minutes past five, he walked across the grass and some company that were believe to be his own follower. Suddenly, several shots rang out. Gandi fell to the ground with a pool of blood. A doctor was rushed to the scene but it was too late for him to save the great leader of India ever had.

                

The police had stated that Gandi had been killed by three pistol shots in his chest. Police was able to track his killer. The killer was Nathuram Godse, he is a Hindu activist who was believed to be connected to the Hindu organization Mahasabha. He received death sentences and was hanged on 15 November 1949. 

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ASSASSINATION MALCOM X

Malcom X was born in Omaha, Nebraska. His original religion was Christian and his initial name that had been given was Malcolm Little.  His father was a Baptist minister and leader of repatriation movement known as the Marcus Garvey Back to Africa movement. At young age of him, he made a lot of crime such as drug dealer and stealing but at the age of eighteen he was send to prison for stealing someone  money. In the prison, he was introduced to book Elijah Muhammad. After read the book, he claimed to change his current religion to Islam and changed his name to Malcom X. He was release in the year 1952, and he became a Muslim minister ath the temple of the Nation of Islam before decided to migrate to New York City.

          

 Before he made up his mind to migrate to New York City, have joined The Nation of Islam, a radical black political that was led by Elijah Muhammad during the time. Malcom X has some issued with Elijah Muhammad’s son- in-law, Raymond Sharrief. Finally, Malcom X left The Nation of Islam and he formed his own organization that known as Organization of Afro-American Unity. He persuaded that the black and white people could work together to achieve political change.

           

On 21st February 1965, Malcom X had to make a speech in Audubon and strangely all others speakers speech had cancelled on that day. Around time 3.05 pm, there were a riot broke out at the place where he was giving out his speech. A man shouted “Get your hand outta my pocket! Don’t be messing with my pockets!” Suddenly, a smoke bomb was detected at the back of the stage where Malcom X was giving his speech. The crowd started to panic and Malcom X’s bodyguards moved forward to calm down the crowd. While his bodyguards tried to control the situation, Malcom X ‘s assassins  made they move to complete his mission which was to kill Malcom X.

        

   Melcom X dead body was buried at the Ferncliff Cementry in Hartdale, New York. Later, the police made a first arrest on three men that were suspect to be Malcom X’s killers. Talmadge Hayer, Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson were the members of The Nation of Islam. Then, three of them were found guilty and were sentenced of the first-degree murder on March 1966.

But some people do believe that Malcome X was not killed by the three people that were found guilty to kill him by court. Some people did believe that he was been killed by the CIA Agents because of Malcom X once told his friend that he was being followed by the CIA Agents and he knew that his life was on danger. Lastly, he also fall ill and there was a rumor that he had his food poisoned on purpose by the people in The Nation of Islam that wanted to take revenge on him.  

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