Editing 1960s (section)

==Assassinations and attempts==
[[File:Patrice_Lumumba_in_1960.jpg|thumb|203x203px|[[Patrice Lumumba]]]]
[[File:John F. Kennedy, White House color photo portrait.jpg|thumb|182x182px|[[John F. Kennedy]]]]
[[File:Martin-Luther-King-1964-leaning-on-a-lectern.jpg|thumb|193x193px|[[Martin Luther King, Jr.]]]]
[[File:CheExec19.jpg|thumb|The day after [[Che Guevara]]'s execution on 10 October 1967, Guevara's corpse was displayed to the news media in the laundry house of the Vallegrande hospital]]
Prominent assassinations, targeted killings, and assassination attempts include:
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|12 October 1960 
|[[Inejiro Asanuma]], leader of the Japan Socialist Party, was [[Assassination of Inejirō Asanuma|stabbed to death]] by [[Uyoku dantai|far-right ultranationalist]] [[Otoya Yamaguchi]] while speaking in a televised political debate in Tokyo.<ref name=chun>{{cite book |title=A Nation of a Hundred Million Idiots?: A Social History of Japanese Television, 1953–1973 |last=Chun |first=Jayson Makoto |publisher=Routledge |year=2006 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9miRAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA184 |pages=184–185 |isbn=978-0-415-97660-2 |access-date=22 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Japan's Foreign Policy |last=Langdon |first=Frank |year=1973 |publisher=[[University of British Columbia Press]] |location=Vancouver |isbn=0774800151 |page=19 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9qqdRRfwj-EC&pg=PA19 |access-date=18 August 2012 }}</ref>
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|17 January 1961
|[[Patrice Lumumba]], the Prime Minister of the [[Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)|Democratic Republic of the Congo]]; [[Maurice Mpolo]], Minister of Youth and Sports; [[Joseph Okito]], vice-president of the Senate, were [[Patrice Lumumba#Final days and execution|assassinated]] by a Belgian and Congolese firing squad outside [[Lubumbashi]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=Katanga's Communique on the Killing of Lumumba|date=14 February 1961|work=[[The New York Times]]|id = {{ProQuest|115317883}}}}</ref>
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|30 May 1961
|[[Rafael Trujillo]], dictator of the Dominican Republic for 31 years, was [[Rafael Trujillo#Assassination|assassinated]] in a plot led by members of his general staff.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/trujillo.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115223630/http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/trujillo.html | archive-date=15 November 2011 | title=Rafael Trujillo killer file }}</ref>
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|13 January 1963
|[[Sylvanus Olympio]], the Prime Minister of [[Togo]], was killed during the [[1963 Togolese coup d'état]]. His body was dumped in front of the U.S. embassy in [[Lomé]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Togo's President Slain in Coup: Insurgents Seize Most Of Cabinet |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=14 January 1963 |page=A11}}</ref>
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|2 November 1963
|[[Ngô Đình Diệm]], 1st president of South Vietnam, along with his brother and chief political adviser [[Ngô Đình Nhu]], was [[Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem|assassinated]] in a [[1963 South Vietnamese coup|coup]] led by elements of the South Vietnamese [[Army of the Republic of Vietnam|Army]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resources/diem-coup | title=The Diem coup &#124; Miller Center | date=18 September 2017 }}</ref> 
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|22 November 1963
|[[John F. Kennedy]], 35th president of the United States, was [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|shot to death]] while riding in a motorcade through [[Dealey Plaza]] in [[Dallas]], Texas. His assassin, [[Lee Harvey Oswald]], was himself [[Lee Harvey Oswald#Murder|murdered]] by [[Jack Ruby]] two days later.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/chapter-1#conclusions | title=Chapter 1 | date=15 August 2016 }}</ref>
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|21 February 1965
|[[Malcolm X]], an American civil rights leader, was [[Assassination of Malcolm X|shot to death]] in [[Manhattan]]. The perpetrators of the killing are disputed.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1965/02/22/archives/malcolm-x-shot-to-death-at-rally-here-three-other-negroes-wounded.html | title=Malcolm X Shot to Death at Rally | work=The New York Times | date=22 February 1965 | last1=Kihss | first1=Peter }}</ref> 
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|6 September 1966
|[[Hendrik Verwoerd]], Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of [[apartheid]], was stabbed to death by [[Dimitri Tsafendas]], a parliamentary messenger, at the South African [[House of Assembly (South Africa)|House of Assembly]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,836363-1,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070424173033/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,836363-1,00.html | archive-date=24 April 2007 | title=Death to the Architect }}</ref>
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|9 October 1967
|[[Che Guevara]], an Argentine-Cuban Marxist revolutionary, was [[Che Guevara#Execution|executed]] by the CIA and Bolivian army.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7027619.stm|title=CIA man recounts Che Guevara's death|date=8 October 2007|newspaper=BBC|access-date=24 June 2016|archive-date=28 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628161656/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7027619.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> 
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|4 April 1968
|[[Martin Luther King Jr.]], American [[civil rights movement|civil rights]] leader, was [[Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.|shot to death]] in [[Memphis, Tennessee]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/assassination-martin-luther-king-jr | title=Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr | date=24 April 2017 }}</ref> 
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|5 June 1968 
|[[Robert F. Kennedy]], former Attorney General and a leading [[1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries|1968 Democratic presidential candidate]], was [[Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy|shot to death]] in Los Angeles following a speech regarding his victory in California.<ref>[https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/1.13.22-Sirhan-Reverse-Decision.pdf Sirhan Reverse Decision]</ref>
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