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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Staff Investigative Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Jonestown (Guyana)
ISBN : UOM:39015030993144
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Government publications
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045317042
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Staff Investigative Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Jonestown (Guyana)
ISBN : UOM:39015036027764
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Expenditures, Public
ISBN : OCLC:941996514
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210007136953
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951D008322827
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : United States
ISBN : UCR:31210019950318
Author : J. Michael Martinez
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631440717
The long, dark history of political violence in the United States Violence has been employed to achieve political objectives throughout history. Taking the life of a perceived enemy is as old as mankind. Antiquity is filled with examples of political murders, such as when Julius Caesar was felled by assassins in 44 BCE. While assassinations and assassination attempts are not unique to the American way of life, denizens of other nations sometimes look upon the US as populated by reckless cowboys owing to a “Wild West” attitude about violence, especially episodes involving guns. In this book, J. Michael Martinez focuses on assassinations and attempts in the American republic. Nine American presidents—Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan—have been the targets of assassins. President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt was also a target shortly before he was sworn into office in 1933. Moreover, three presidential candidates—Theodore Roosevelt, Robert F. Kennedy, and George Wallace—were shot by assailants. In addition to presidents and candidates for the presidency, eight governors, seven U.S. senators, nine U.S. House members, eleven mayors, seventeen state legislators, and eleven judges have been victims of political violence. Not all political assassinations involve elected officials. Some of those targeted, such as Joseph Smith, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr., were public figures who influenced political issues. But their cases are instructive because of their connection to, and influence on, the political process. No other nation with a population of over 50 million people has witnessed as many political assassinations or attempts. These violent episodes trigger a series of important questions. First, why has the United States—a country constructed on a bedrock of the rule of law and firmly committed to due process—been so susceptible to political violence? Martinez addresses these questions as he examines twenty-five instances of violence against elected officials and public figures in American history.
Author : David Chidester
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 025321632X
Praise for the first edition: "[This] ambitious and courageous book [is a] benchmark of theology by which questions about the meaningful history of the Peoples Temple may be measured." —Journal of the American Academy of Religion Re-issued in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the mass suicides at Jonestown, this revised edition of David Chidester's pathbreaking book features a new prologue that considers the meaning of the tragedy for a post-Waco, post-9/11 world. For Chidester, Jonestown recalls the American religious commitment to redemptive sacrifice, which for Jim Jones meant saving his followers from the evils of capitalist society. "Jonestown is ancient history," writes Chidester, but it does provide us with an opportunity "to reflect upon the strangeness of familiar . . . promises of redemption through sacrifice."
Author : Nancy E. Marion,Willard Oliver
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739183601
Killing Congress: Assassinations, Attempted Assassinations, and other Violence Enacted on Members of the U.S. Congress analyzes all assassinations, attempted assassinations, and other violent acts carried out on members of Congress. Each chapter focuses on a particular incident, describing the events, the people involved, and the consequences of the violence.
Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1338 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Legislation
ISBN : MSU:31293201271636
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House".
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112063912650
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1180 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1980-10
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210024274621
Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210024274712
Author : Rebecca Moore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781440864803
This in-depth investigation of Peoples Temple and its tragic end at Jonestown corrects sensationalized misunderstandings of the group and places its individual members within the broader context of religion in America. Most people understand Peoples Temple through its violent disbanding following events in Jonestown, Guyana, where more than 900 Americans committed murder and suicide in a jungle commune. Media coverage of the event sensationalized the group and obscured the background of those who died. The view that emerged thirty years ago continues to dominate understanding of Jonestown today, despite the dozens of books, articles, and documentaries that have appeared. This book provides a fresh perspective on Peoples Temple, locating the group within the context of religion in America and offering a contemporary history that corrects the inaccuracies often associated with the group and its demise. Although Peoples Temple had some of the characteristics many associate with cults, it also shared many characteristics of black religion in America. Moreover, it is crucial to understand how the organization fits into the social and political movements of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s: race, class, colonialism, gender, and other issues dominated the times and so dominated the consciousness of the members of Peoples Temple. Here, Rebecca Moore, who lost three family members in the events in Guyana, offers a framework for U.S. social, cultural, and political history that helps readers to better understand Peoples Temple and its members.