Famous Assassinations Of History: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Famous Assassinations Of History, credited to Francis Johnson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Famous Assassinations Of History by Francis Johnson. Read in English by David Wales It has been the object of the writer to make each of these “famous assassinations” the central scene of a picture in which the political, religious, or national features of the epoch in which the assassination occurred are portrayed with historical fidelity and strict impartiality…. Only those assassinations have been included which either had an important and political bearing on the world, or on the nation immediately affected, or which left a profound, and, it would seem, indelible impression on the imagination of contemporaries and posterity. - Summary by Book Preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: Famous Assassinations Of History
• Author credits: Francis Johnson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 11:09:37

Catalogue topics

• biography
• Wallenstein
• assassination
• Abraham Lincoln
• Henry IV
• Nero
• julius caesar
• william mckinley

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 00 - Preface — 3:03
2. 01 - Assassination of Philip of Macedon (336 BC) — 9:17
3. 02 - Assassination of Tiberius Gracchus (133 BC) — 20:59
4. 03 - Assassination of Julius Caesar (44 BC) — 13:13
5. 04 - Assassinations of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero (AD 37-68) — 7:54
6. 05 - Assassination of Hypatia (AD 415) — 19:40
7. 06 - Assassination of Thomas A Becket (December 29, 1170) — 20:33
8. 07 - Assassination of Gessler (AD 1307) — 13:12
9. 08 - Assassination of Inez de Castro (AD 1355) — 18:38
10. 09 - Assassinations of Rizzio and Darnley (March 9, 1566; February 9,1567) — 38:46
11. 10 - Assassination of William of Orange (July 10, 1584) — 34:10
12. 11 - Assassinations by Ivan the Terrible (1560-1584) — 23:36
13. 12 - Assassination of Henry the Fourth of France (May 14, 1610) — 27:43
14. 13 - Assassination of Wallenstein (February 24, 1634) — 43:21
15. 14 - Assassination of the Brothers John and Cornelius de Witt (August 20,1672) — 33:46
16. 15 - Assassination of Alexis, Son Of Peter the Great (June 26,1718) — 11:14
17. 16 - Assassination of Peter the Third of Russia (July 17, 1762) — 48:19
18. 17 - Assassination of Gustavus the Third of Sweden (March 17, 1792) — 57:12
19. 18 - Assassination of Jean Paul Marat (July 13, 1793) — 29:14
20. 19 - Assassination of Paul the First of Russia (March 24, 1801) — 22:07
21. 20 - Assassination of August von Kotzebue (March 23, 1819) — 19:27
22. 21 - Assassination of the Duc de Berry (February 13,1820) — 24:58
23. 22 - Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (April 14, 1865) — 23:29
24. 23 - Assassination of Alexander the Second of Russia (March 13, 1881) — 37:40

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