Bob Marley assassination attempt military headquarters. Reggae musician Bob Marley announced plans to hold a concert in an attempt to quell the violence. Politicians from both parties were hoping to capitalize on Marley's support. While Marley remained neutral, many viewed him as tacitly supporting Manley and the PNP. In 1972, Michael Manley assumed leadership under the People's National Party (PNP) as Prime Minister of Jamaica, where he maintained leadership until 1980. Upon entering office, the Democratic-Socialist prime minister immediately angered US officials by recognizing the Cuban government of Fidel Castro, nationalizing bauxite production, and recognizing the MPLA government of Angola, that was supported by
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