Example Sentences

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“The Committee does not believe Castro would have assassinated President Kennedy, because such an act, if discovered, would have afforded the United States the excuse to destroy Cuba,” the draft states.

From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2017

No-one I spoke to in Minsk believed that Oswald could have assassinated the US president.

From BBC • Nov. 19, 2013

Roger Thornhill, played by Cary Grant, is mistaken for a fictitious government agent and wrongly believed to have assassinated a high-ranking US diplomat right in the United Nations building.

From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 2012

Says the Commission: "Speculations tending to support the theory that Oswald could not have assassinated President Kennedy are based on a wide variety of assertions."

From Time Magazine Archive

As if France were not ours, as if we had no rights over these people who have assassinated their king and kissed the feet of an adventurer; but they are afraid, and talk of patience.

From The Son of Monte-Cristo by Lermina, Jules