For my parents' generation, these tragedies were the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Forty years after the assassinations of Kennedy and King.
Iran blames Israel for the assassinations of several nuclear scientists.
He doesn't regret the assassinations of the Hamas leadership.
Among these is the "assassination" of Vidal Vega, a key witness to the events at Curuguaty, who was killed by gunmen six months later.
These included the assassination of a regional opposition party boss, Luis Manuel Díaz, who was shot and killed during a campaign rally in Guárico last month.
Officially, Israel has never admitted any involvement in these assassinations, and after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke out against the killing of Ahmadi-Roshan this month, President Shimon Peres said he had no knowledge of Israeli involvement.
(Shortly after these discussions came the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, at which point a majority in favour of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 quickly coalesced).
For the rest of us, however, these images of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, recorded by a Dallas dress manufacturer named Abraham Zapruder, are among the most memorable of our lives.
These included both reprisal assassinations of leading figures suspected of resistance involvement or sympathy (including Alexandre Galopin, head of the Société Générale, who was assassinated in February 1944) or retaliatory massacres against civilians.
