Famous Assassinations Of History
Francis Johnson
Play
Length 11 h 10 min
Chapters 25
First published 1903
It has been the object of the writer to make each of these “famous assassinations” the central scene of a picture in which the political, religious, or national features of the epoch in which the assassination occurred are portrayed with historical fidelity and strict impartiality…. Only those assassinations have been included which either had an important and political bearing on the world, or on the nation immediately affected, or which left a profound, and, it would seem, indelible impression on the imagination of contemporaries and posterity. - Summary by Book Preface
Chapters
1
Preface Read by David Wales 3:03
2
Assassination of Tiberius Gracchus (133 BC) Read by David Wales 20:59
3
Assassination of Julius Caesar (44 BC) Read by David Wales 13:13
4
Assassinations of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero (AD 37-68) Read by David Wales 7:54
5
Assassination of Hypatia (AD 415) Read by David Wales 19:40
6
Assassination of Thomas A Becket (December 29, 1170) Read by David Wales 20:33
7
Assassination of Gessler (AD 1307) Read by David Wales 13:12
8
Assassination of Inez de Castro (AD 1355) Read by David Wales 18:38
9
Assassinations of Rizzio and Darnley (March 9, 1566; February 9,1567) Read by David Wales 38:46
10
Assassination of William of Orange (July 10, 1584) Read by David Wales 34:10
11
Assassinations by Ivan the Terrible (1560-1584) Read by David Wales 23:36
12
Assassination of Henry the Fourth of France (May 14, 1610) Read by David Wales 27:43
13
Assassination of Wallenstein (February 24, 1634) Read by David Wales 43:21
14
Assassination of the Brothers John and Cornelius de Witt (August 20,1672) Read by David Wales 33:47
15
Assassination of Alexis, Son Of Peter the Great (June 26,1718) Read by David Wales 11:14
16
Assassination of Peter the Third of Russia (July 17, 1762) Read by David Wales 48:19
17
Assassination of Gustavus the Third of Sweden (March 17, 1792) Read by David Wales 57:12
18
Assassination of Jean Paul Marat (July 13, 1793) Read by David Wales 29:14
19
Assassination of Paul the First of Russia (March 24, 1801) Read by David Wales 22:07
20
Assassination of August von Kotzebue (March 23, 1819) Read by David Wales 19:27
21
Assassination of the Duc de Berry (February 13,1820) Read by David Wales 24:58
22
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (April 14, 1865) Read by David Wales 23:29
23
Assassination of Alexander the Second of Russia (March 13, 1881) Read by David Wales 37:40
24
Assassination of William McKinley, President of the United States (September 6, 1901) Read by David Wales 27:09
25
Assassination of Alexander I and Draga, King and Queen of Servia (June 10-11, 1903) Read by David Wales 40:56
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