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• rather than await execution, Russian anarchist assassin Moishe Tokar doused himself in paraffin from his prison cell lamp and burned himself alive?
• the former actor Adam Kennedy wrote the screenplay for the Gene Hackman film, The Domino Principle, about a convict turned assassin?
• in 1943 British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 was shot down by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was an attempt to assassinate Winston Churchill?
• Russian assassin Sergey Degayev was the first mathematics professor at the University of South Dakota?
• James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh was the first assassin to use a gun?
• actress Dorothy Kilgallen, who claimed to have information about the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, died under suspicious circumstances?