Abraham Lincoln watched a play. James Garfield walked through a train
station. William McKinley shook hands with his public. John Kennedy
smiled and waved from a motorcade. In these moments shots rang out and
four presidents suffered mortal wounds. Some say their assassins were
calculating killers. Others say they were madmen guided by strange
notions of the world. Assassins' America examines the lives of each
killer and his victim. Their stories are full of twists and mysteries,
and even today Americans live with lasting effects of these terrible
crimes.