Bob Marley assassination attempt Bob Marley assassination attempt Michael Manley, son of former Prime Minister Norman Manley, was elected Prime Minister of Jamaica in 1972. To address growing inequality in Jamaican society, Manley embarked on several democratic socialist reforms of the state, including land ownership reform, free education from primary to university, and nationalization of certain industries. Such policies had massive popularity among many people in Jamaica, but there were others who either saw the reforms as contrary to their businesses or as a high precursor to a Cuban-style communist government. Beginning in 1974, he was also opposed by the more conservative Edward Seaga
Assassination of John F. Kennedy in popular culture himself (acting as both gunmen at different points in his life, as Oswald's rifle had a misaligned targeting scope that prevented him delivering the fatal shot from the Book Depository on the first trip). District Attorney Jim Garrison's fictional novel, "The Star Spangled Contract" (1976), and Taylor Caldwell's "Captains and the Kings" are both based in part on a conspiratorial view of the Kennedy assassination. In the first album of Jean van Hamme and William Vance's comic book series "XIII" the title character XIII is shown to be the alleged assassin of U.S. President William B. Sheridan, who was murdered