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Political assassinations and terrorism have both outraged and fascinated the public throughout American history, particularly in the modern era. Providing biographical summaries of more than 100 assassins and terrorists, this book aims at a more complete understanding of the motivations behind violent extremism.
The lives of the subjects are analyzed with a focus on psychological and ideological factors, along with details of investigations and criminal trials. Conspiracy theories are evaluated for credibility. Social media features prominently in explaining political violence by members of extremist groups in the 21st century, including radical Islamic terrorists, anti-abortion activists and white supremacists.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Preface
Introduction
Part 1—Domestic Assassins and Terrorists
One—Presidential Assassins
Richard Lawrence
The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators
John Wilkes Booth 11 • Lewis Powell (Lewis Paine or Lewis Payne) 14 • David E. Herold 16 • George Atzerodt 17 • Michael O'Laughlen 19 • Mary Surratt 21 • John Surratt 23 • Samuel Arnold 25 • Dr. Samuel Mudd 26 • Edman Spangler 28
The Lincoln Conspiracy Trial
Charles Guiteau
Leon Czolgosz
John Schrank
Joseph Giuseppe Zangara
Oscar Collazo
Griselio Torresola
Lee Harvey Oswald
Samuel Byck
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme
Sara Jane Moore
John W. Hinckley, Jr.
Francisco Martin Duran
Two—Domestic Political Assassins
Patrick Eugene Prendergast
Carl Weiss
Jack "Ruby" Rubenstein
Byron De La Beckwith
Thomas Hagan (a.k.a. Talmadge X Hayer and Mujahid Abdul Halim)
John Patler (Yanacki "John" Patsalos)
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan
James Earl Ray
Charles Harrelson
Arthur Bremer
Dan White
Charles L. Koster
Walter Leroy Moody, Jr.
Byron (Low Tax) Looper
Sidney Dorsey
Othniel Askew
Jared Lee Loughner
Three—Domestic Political Terrorists
William "Bill" Ayers
Bernardine Dohrn
Timothy McVeigh
Terry Nichols
Theodore Kaczynski
Wade Michael Page
Aaron Alexis
Dylann Roof
James T. Hodgkinson
Robert Gregory Bowers
Patrick Crusius
Four—Anti-Abortion Extremists
Michael Frederick Griffin
Rachelle Ranae "Shelley" Shannon
Paul Jennings Hill
John C. Salvi III
Eric Rudolph
James Charles Kopp
Scott Roeder
Robert Lewis Dear, Jr.
Part 2—Foreign Political Terrorism
Five—The Nazi Saboteurs
George Dasch
Ernst Burger
Heinrich Heinck
Richard Quirin
Edward Kerling
Herbert Hans Haupt
Herman Neubauer
Werner Thiel
Ex parte Quirin
Six—Puerto Rican Nationalists
Lolita Lebron
Rafael Cancel Miranda
Andres Figueroa Cordero
Irvin Flores-Rodriguez
Oscar Lopez Rivera
Seven—Islamic Fundamentalists
Ramzi Yousef (Abdul Basit Mahmoud Abdul Karim)
September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks: Planners
Osama bin Laden 226 • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 232
September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks: American Airlines Flight 11
Mohamed Atta 237 • Abdulaziz al-Omari 242 • Satam Muhammed Abdel Rahman al-Suqami 245 • Wail Mohammed al-Shehri 248 • Waleed Mohammed al-Shehri 250
September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks: United Airlines Flight 175
Marwan Yousef Mohamed Rashid Lekrab al-Shehhi 254 • Fayez Rashid Ahmed Hassan al-Qadi Banihammad 259 • Mohand Muhammad Fayiz al-Shehri 261 • Ahmed Salah Said al-Ghamdi 264 • Hamza Salih Ahmad al-Hamid al-Ghamdi 267
September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks: American Airlines Flight 77
Hani Saleh Hasan Hanjour 270 • Khalid Muhammad Abdallah al-Mihdhar 274 • Majed Mashaan Ghanem Moqed 279 • Nawaf Muhammed Salim al-Hazmi 281 • Salem al-Hazmi 286
September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks: United Airlines Flight 93
Ziad Samir Jarrah 289 • Saeed Abdallah Ali Sulayman al-Ghamdi 293 • Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Nami 296 • Ahmed Ibrahim al-Haznawi 298
9/11 Conspiracy Theories
Eight—Post-9/11 Terrorists
Richard Reid
Zacarias Moussaoui
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (a.k.a. Umar Abdul Mutallab and Omar Farooq al-Nigeri)
Nidal Malik Hasan
Tamerlan Tsarnaev
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Syed Rizwan Farook
Tashfeen Malik
Omar Mir Seddique ("Omar Mateen")
Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani
Conclusion and Discussion
Political and Religious Extremism
Psychological and Emotional Disorders
Insanity
Discrimination Based Upon Race, Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation
Money and Power
Mass Media
Bibliography
Index
