Bob Marley assassination attempt a JLP gunman, was contracted by the CIA to organize the Marley shooting and that Lester Coke, aka Jim Brown, led the charge on Hope Road. Don Taylor, Marley’s manager, claimed that both he and Marley were present at a ghetto court in which the gunmen who shot Marley were tried and executed. According to Taylor, before one of the shooters was killed, he admitted the job was done for the CIA in exchange for cocaine and guns. Bob Marley assassination attempt Michael Manley, son of former Prime Minister Norman Manley, was elected Prime Minister of Jamaica in 1972. To
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