From 1978 until his passing in 2005, Pope John Paul II presided as the leader of the Catholic Church and the ruler of the Vatican City State. He was eventually canonized as Pope Saint John Paul II. But what happened to Pope John Paul II’s attempted assassin? Mehmet Ali Aca, the attempted assassin who shot […]
Throughout history, assassinations of political figures were done in secrecy, often recruiting assassins through covert methods. But did you know that a pornographer tried recruiting assassins by publishing an ad? Al Goldstein, the publisher of Screw Magazine, ran an ad in 1989. He offered $1 million for the assassination of Ayatollah Khomeini, the Iranian political
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Fidel Castro was a Cuban political leader who transformed Cuba into a communist state. At the height of his political reign, the United States refused to continue trade relations with Cuba, that Castro ended up seizing all American assets in the country and made friends with the USSR. In 1961, President Kennedy tried to overthrow
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