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After Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election, 73-year-old Pavlick decided to kill Kennedy.He turned his property over to a local youth camp, loaded his meager possessions into his 1950 Buick, and disappeared.
William Anthony "Tough Tony" Boyle (December 1, 1904 – May 31, 1985) was an American miner, union leader, and convicted murder-for-hire conspirator. He became president of the United Mine Workers of America union in 1963, serving until 1972.
In the 1960s, for a second decade, the United States FBI continued to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.Following is a brief review of FBI people and events that place the 1960s decade in context, and then an historical list of individual suspects whose names first appeared on the 10 Most Wanted list during the decade of the 1960s, under FBI ...
During his tenure as Majority Leader, Johnson did not sign the 1956 Southern Manifesto, [88] [89] and shepherded the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 to passage — the first civil rights bills to pass Congress since the Enforcement Acts and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 during Reconstruction. [95]
Joseph Albert "Jock" Yablonski (March 3, 1910 – December 31, 1969) was an American labor leader in the United Mine Workers in the 1950s and 1960s known for seeking reform in the union and better working conditions for miners.
Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (born Hubert Gerold Brown; October 4, 1943), is an American Muslim cleric who was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s. Best known as H. Rap Brown , he served as the Black Panther Party 's minister of justice during a short-lived (six months) alliance between SNCC and the ...
Prime Minister of Turkey (1950–1960) 1960: Treason (Executed by hanging) [62] Celâl Bayar Turkey: President of Turkey (1950-1960) 1960: Treason [63] Abd al-Karim Qasim Iraq: Prime Minister of Iraq (1958–1963) 1963: Overthrown (Executed by firing squad) Sukarno Indonesia: President of Indonesia (1945–1967) 1967: Overthrown [64] Liu Shaoqi ...
Beginning in 1969, leaders of the Black Panther Party were targeted by the COINTELPRO and "neutralized" by being assassinated, imprisoned, publicly humiliated or falsely charged with crimes. Some of the Black Panthers targeted include Fred Hampton , Mark Clark , Zayd Shakur , Geronimo Pratt , Mumia Abu-Jamal , [ 18 ] and Marshall Conway .