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| Subject: If only I had known: Killing or attempting to harm a president wasn't a federal offense until 1965 Thu Nov 14, 2013 7:47 pm | |
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Assassinating the president wasn't a federal crime in 1963
Despite the assassinations of three U.S. presidents -- Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield and William McKinley -- killing or attempting to harm a president wasn't a federal offense until 1965, two years after Kennedy's death.
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/14/us/jfk-assassination-5-things/index.html _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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