Political Assassinations That Shook The World

Mahatma Gandhi: The Father of Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, was the finest leader of India. Gandhi, who was the voice of non-violence in an increasingly violent world, was gunned down on the streets of New Delhi on 30 January 1948 by Nathuram Godse.

His death was a tremendous blow not only to India, but to the entire world. Gandhi’s policies of compassion towards the poor and non-violent resistance served as a blueprint for peaceful change. The assassin, Nathuram Godse, was a Hindu nationalist with links to the extremist Hindu Mahasabha, who held Gandhi responsible for weakening India by insisting upon a payment to Pakistan.

John F. Kennedy:, The 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin’s bullets when his motorcade was passing through Dallas, Texas on November 22^nd, 1963.

His assassination came hardly past his first thousand days in office.  Within an hour of his death, police had arrested Lee Harvey Oswald, a recently hired employee at the Texas School Book Depository. Oswald was being held for the assassination of President Kennedy and the fatal shooting of Patrolman J. D. Tippit on a Dallas street. Ironically, Kennedy who was the youngest man to be elected as President was the youngest to die.

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