Political Assassins, Terrorists and Related Conspiracies in American History

Scott P. Johnson has been a professor of political science, coordinator of the Law & Society program, and pre-law advisor at Frostburg State University since 1999 and has authored numerous articles in law journals and law reviews. He received Faculty Achievement Awards for Academic Accomplishment in 2011 and 2014 and also received the FSU Outstanding Mentor Award in 2012.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgmentsviii

Preface

Introduction

Part 1—Domestic Assassins and Terrorists

One—Presidential Assassins

Richard Lawrence

The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators

John Wilkes Booth 11 • Lewis Powell (Lewis Paine or Lewis Payne) 14 • David E. Herold 16 • George Atzerodt 17 • Michael O’Laughlen 19 • Mary Surratt 21 • John Surratt 23 • Samuel Arnold 25 • Dr. Samuel Mudd 26 • Edman Spangler 28

The Lincoln Conspiracy Trial

Charles Guiteau

Leon Czolgosz

John Schrank

Joseph Giuseppe Zangara

Oscar Collazo

Griselio Torresola

Lee Harvey Oswald

Samuel Byck

Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme

Sara Jane Moore

John W. Hinckley, Jr.

Francisco Martin Duran

Two—Domestic Political Assassins

Patrick Eugene Prendergast

Carl Weiss

Jack “Ruby” Rubenstein

Byron De La Beckwith

Thomas Hagan (a.k.a. Talmadge X Hayer and Mujahid Abdul Halim)

John Patler (Yanacki “John” Patsalos)

Sirhan Bishara Sirhan

James Earl Ray

Charles Harrelson

Arthur Bremer

Dan White

Charles L. Koster

Walter Leroy Moody, Jr.

Byron (Low Tax) Looper

Sidney Dorsey

Othniel Askew

Jared Lee Loughner

Three—Domestic Political Terrorists

William “Bill” Ayers

Bernardine Dohrn

Timothy McVeigh

Terry Nichols

Theodore Kaczynski

Wade Michael Page

Aaron Alexis

Dylann Roof

James T. Hodgkinson

Robert Gregory Bowers

Patrick Crusius

Four—­Anti-Abortion Extremists

Michael Frederick Griffin

Rachelle Ranae “Shelley” Shannon

Paul Jennings Hill

John C. Salvi III

Eric Rudolph

James Charles Kopp

Scott Roeder

Robert Lewis Dear, Jr.

Part 2—Foreign Political Terrorism

Five—The Nazi Saboteurs

George Dasch

Ernst Burger

Heinrich Heinck

Richard Quirin

Edward Kerling

Herbert Hans Haupt

Herman Neubauer

Werner Thiel

Ex parte Quirin

Six—Puerto Rican Nationalists

Lolita Lebron

Rafael Cancel Miranda

Andres Figueroa Cordero

Irvin ­Flores-Rodriguez

Oscar Lopez Rivera

Seven—Islamic Fundamentalists

Ramzi Yousef (Abdul Basit Mahmoud Abdul Karim)

September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks: Planners

Osama bin Laden 226 • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 232

September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks: American Airlines Flight 11

Mohamed Atta 237 • Abdulaziz ­al-Omari 242 • Satam Muhammed Abdel Rahman ­al-Suqami 245 • Wail Mohammed ­al-Shehri 248 • Waleed Mohammed ­al-Shehri 250

September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks: United Airlines Flight 175

Marwan Yousef Mohamed Rashid Lekrab ­al-Shehhi 254 • Fayez Rashid Ahmed Hassan ­al-Qadi Banihammad 259 • Mohand Muhammad Fayiz ­al-Shehri 261 • Ahmed Salah Said ­al-Ghamdi 264 • Hamza Salih Ahmad ­al-Hamid ­al-Ghamdi 267

September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks: American Airlines Flight 77

Hani Saleh Hasan Hanjour 270 • Khalid Muhammad Abdallah ­al-Mihdhar 274 • Majed Mashaan Ghanem Moqed 279 • Nawaf Muhammed Salim ­al-Hazmi 281 • Salem ­al-Hazmi 286

September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks: United Airlines Flight 93

Ziad Samir Jarrah 289 • Saeed Abdallah Ali Sulayman ­al-Ghamdi 293 • Ahmed bin Abdullah ­al-Nami 296 • Ahmed Ibrahim ­al-Haznawi 298

9/11 Conspiracy Theories

Eight—­Post-9/11 Terrorists

Richard Reid

Zacarias Moussaoui

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (a.k.a. Umar Abdul Mutallab and Omar Farooq ­al-Nigeri)

Nidal Malik Hasan

Tamerlan Tsarnaev

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Syed Rizwan Farook

Tashfeen Malik

Omar Mir Seddique (“Omar Mateen”)

Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani

Conclusion and Discussion

Political and Religious Extremism

Psychological and Emotional Disorders

Insanity

Discrimination Based Upon Race, Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation

Money and Power

Mass Media

Bibliography

Index