Statistics for United States Assassinations

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Known For	Assassin	Year	Place	Answer	% Correct
U.S. President	John Wilkes Boothe	1863	Washington, D.C.	Abraham Lincoln	98%
U.S. President	The entry below	1963	Dallas, TX	John F. Kennedy	98%
Civil rights activist	James Earl Ray	1968	Memphis, TN	Martin Luther King, Jr.	95%
Presidential candidate	Sirhan Sirhan	1968	Los Angeles, CA	Robert F. Kennedy	95%
Singer	Mark David Chapman	1980	New York City, NY	John Lennon	88%
U.S. President	Leon Czolgosz	1901	Buffalo, NY	William McKinley	84%
U.S. President	Charles Guiteau	1881	Washington, D.C.	James A. Garfield	81%
Black activist	Multiple	1965	New York City, NY	Malcolm X	81%
Presidential assassin	Jack Ruby	1963	Dallas, TX	Lee Harvey Oswald	77%
San Francisco city supervisor	Dan White	1978	San Francisco, CA	Harvey Milk	58%
Governor of Louisiana	Carl Weiss	1935	Baton Rouge, LA	Huey Long	53%
Civil rights activist	Byron de la Beckwith	1963	Jackson, MS	Medgar Evers	35%
California Congressman	Multiple	1978	Jonestown, Guyana	Leo Ryan	23%
Civil rights activists	Multiple	1964	Philadelphia, MS	Andrew Goodman	19%
American Nazi Party founder	John Patler	1967	Arlington, VA	George Lincoln Rockwell	19%
Civil rights activists				James Chaney	19%
Civil rights activists				Michael Schwerner	19%