In Fire and Lamentations, Janvier T. Chando offers readers succinct accounts of the lives, idealsand untimely deaths of the towering political figures whose assassinations shocked US. society, triggered domestic political transformations and fundamentally altered America foreign policy so that the United States of America lost its innocence forever.
Spanning a century, the shooting deaths of four US. Presidents--Ahabram Lincoln, William McKinley, James A. Garfield, and John F. Kennedy--, and the country's soul--Martin Luther King Jr. brought about so much pain that America is yet to fully overcome as a society.
So, it is not surprising that many Americans dread the thought of the assassination of another United States leader who wields popular support, especially when the country is so divided. This book presents an account that highlights some of the factors to look into in order to understand the past assassinations and to forestall future ones.
