Exodus (Bob Marley & the Wailers album) song became a No. 1 hit in Jamaica as well as the United Kingdom and Germany. On 3 December 1976, an attempt was made on Marley’s life. It was this attempt that drove him out of Jamaica. In addition to Marley's assassination attempt, "his wife Rita — one of the I Threes, whose singing on "Exodus" is first-rate" was also shot and survived. "Exodus" is a reggae album which features a "laid-back" production, that contains a "stoned atmosphere that's simultaneously funky and political" according to Cam, an Emeritus from Sputnikmusic. Cam described the album's musical style as being "different," noting
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