On December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman had already gotten the autograph. John Lennon had signed his copy of Double Fantasy on the sidewalk outside the Dakota. Chapman was overwhelmed by Lennon's sincerity — the kindness wasgenuine, and for a moment it was enough. Then it wasn't. He stayed on the sidewalk. He waited five hours. He fired five shots when Lennon walked back in. He stood there with The Catcher in the Rye and waited to be arrested.

On the evening of Good Friday, April 14, 1865, an actor walked into Ford's Theatre. He had performed there. He had bored a peephole in the door of the presidential box. He had barricaded the outer door. He waited for a specific laugh line in Act III — he knew it would produce a large enough audience reaction to muffle a gunshot. He fired. He shouted Sic semper tyrannisfrom the stage. He broke his leg jumping to the boards. He was found twelve days later, cornered in a tobacco barn in Virginia, refusing to surrender. His final words: "Useless, useless." He had been horrified, hiding in the swamps while still hunted, to find the press condemning him rather than celebrating him.

Same birthday — May 10 — separated by 117 years.

Six Taurus assassins. The fan. The actor. The security guard with a Ryder truck full of fertilizer. The bomb-maker. The disgraced Scout leader. The college student with a smiley face mapped in pipe bombs. Different ideologies, different targets, different body counts. The same immovable Taurus certainty: I am right. The world will understand eventually. Five warning signs —including the capstone: the calm before detonation is not peace.

Featuring: Mark David Chapman | John Wilkes Booth | Timothy McVeigh | Ramzi Yousef | Thomas Hamilton | Luke Helder.

Sources: Wikipedia | FBI | NTSB | Nuremberg trial records | Dunblane Inquiry | New York court records | Oklahoma City bombing trial records | Murderpedia

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