The twentieth century was a splendid century, with tens of millions of people dead in World War I, World War II, Cold War, and post-Cold War, various ideologies pouring in, and various countries undecided in the choice of national independence, capitalism, socialism, and fascism, sometimes wavering and sometimes turbulent. For example, the First World War was triggered by a Serbian assassin, and there were often martyrs, righteous soldiers, and heroes in the history of the Korean Peninsula. By the end of the Cold War, because most of the world's territory had been divided between the two super camps of the United States and the Soviet Union, under the deterrence and mutual compromise of the leading big brother, assassination cases had been rare. At this time, in 1981, in only half a year, the world's three giants were shot one after another: the President of the United States, the Queen of England, and the Pope of Rome.
A second before the pope was shot, the left circle was the killer's gun-wielding hand. The picture below right shows The Pope visits the murderer on Christmas Day 1983 and announces forgiveness.
On March 13, 1981, The Catholic Pope John F. Kennedy was appointed to the Throne. When Paul II was shot by a Turkish Muslim in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican, the Pope was shot twice, the bullets were only a few centimeters away from the point, and the Pope escaped after six hours of surgery. The murderer, Momet Ali Agar, was captured alive and sentenced to life imprisonment by an Italian court, and two years later, on Christmas Day, the Pope himself went to the Italian prison to have a few minutes of secret conversation with the murderer who shot himself, and then announced his forgiveness, the contents of which are still confidential. After the murderer was caught, various conspiracy theories about the motives of the murder spread, some people said that the Soviet KGB mastermind entrusted the killer sent by the Bulgarian intelligence agency. Some say that it was the power struggle within the Holy See that led to the black hands of some factions, and later it was made into a dramatic plot by the famous film Godfather. These conspiracy theories were later unsubstantiated, and the Italian police could only summarily close the case on the grounds that the man hated the pope.
The 52-year-old Momet Ali Aga
At the pope's request, the murderer, Momet Ali Agha, was pardoned by the italian prime minister at the time and deported to Turkey after serving 19 years in prison, followed by a ten-year sentence in Turkey, and finally regained his freedom at the age of 52. There are many suspicious points in this case, the most legendary of which is that in 1979, two years before the murderer committed the crime, the New York Times reported that there was such a person, the editor of a Turkish newspaper, named Momet Ali Agar, who hated the pope and tried to assassinate him. It is a pity that this very accurate report did not attract enough attention from the Italian authorities, and eventually caused a catastrophe.
After Reagan was shot, he was pushed into a bulletproof car by his bodyguards, and the scene was chaotic.
U.S. President Ronald Ronald Lopez, who had just been in office for 69 days on March 30, 1981, was elected to the United States. Reagan was assassinated by the perpetrator John. Hinkley fired a shot in the lung, and due to the timely rescue, the caliber of the warhead was small, and he finally saved his name. The case has always had a strong American cultural color, and the first perpetrator is the son of a billionaire;
The murderer Hinckley and his rich father
Secondly, the motive of the murder is to chase the star, and the actress who the murderer chases is Judy Foster, the heroine of the movie "The Silence of the Lambs";
Judy in 1981. Foster
Third, under the operation of the billionaire father, the murderer did not go to prison, directly on the grounds of mental disorders in the psychiatric hospital, the murderer in the following decades several times proposed mental recovery, wanted acquittal, and finally in 2016 with the approval of a federal judge, became a free man. The case is seen as a classic example of American capitalism: "As long as you have money, it's okay to shoot the president." ”
Marcus Sargent was aiming at the Queen of England before firing six shots
Inspired by the two celebrity shootings in the first half of 1981, a 17-year-old british youth turned the Queen of England into his target in June, and his motivation was simple: he wanted to be famous, he didn't want the Queen's life, he just wanted to scare and frighten her, so he didn't use real bullets, only empty packs. In the end he succeeded, and 17-year-old Marcus Sargent was charged with treason, but only a light sentence of five years, not "shooting at the queen", but "shooting at the queen's side", and after three years of parole, the 20-year-old really became a celebrity, published a book, and published an album.