The second assassination augmented the first, expanded our sense of floating on a dark sea of potential violence.
Still, the circumstances of the assassination — the first of significance in the Netherlands since 1584 — were baffling.
Sukarno narrowly escaped recurrent attempts at assassination, the first in 1957.
He had survived two previous assassination attempts.The first round of voting in the Czech presidential election produced a surprise when Karel Schwarzenberg, the conservative foreign minister, came in second.
The Cherokee was so durable that it survived not one but two assassination attempts, first when the Grand Cherokee was to have replaced it in 1992 and later, when its replacement had to be relabeled Liberty to sell alongside the Cherokee until the ire of the boxy Jeep's fans faded.
Another assassination — the third in 36 years — put Roosevelt in the White House and Hay, by the laws of the time, second in line for the presidency.
The assassination, the second fatal shooting of a Liberal Russia leader in eight months, occurred hours after Mr. Yushenkov announced that the new party had registered to run candidates in parliamentary elections scheduled for December.
Kennedy's presidency (1961-1963), truncated by his November 1963 assassination, ranks third behind LBJ's.
It was the year when the hopes borne by the social movements of the 1950's and 60's were dashed by the assassinations of, first, Martin Luther King Jr., and then Robert F. Kennedy.
"I can be dead by an explosion or an assassination any second, so why not just live life to the full and not give a shit about anything else?" said Ahmad.
