Fix the blending mode on your red crosshairs so they don't show black over the blue country color. Makes it look like you have three different colors where they overlap with the white.
@6 wiki says: "His presidency was cut short after he was shot by Charles J. Guiteau while entering a railroad station in Washington D.C. on July 2, 1881. He was the second United States President to be assassinated."
Awesome, amazing, very cool. Would like a commemorative issue suitable for framing...seriously.
Garfield survived another 80 days and died of a heart attack, but the gunshot was still the cause of his death, which has always been called an assassination... at least by Sondheim and Weidman.
Well done, gentlemen. I can see a series here, maybe photoshop Sirhan's face over Beck's "vigilante" background from his website... What other hate speech is tolerated depending on the political affiliation of the person spewing it?
Garfield died 11 weeks after being shot. Truman was never in the direct line of fire. Other DYK: Huey Long, Medgar Evers, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak (sitting next to FDR). Hope you can make this cover go viral (so to speak) - e.g. mailing one to every Tea Partyer, Palin, Bachmann, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Beck.
Christopher Frizzelle, I completely forgot that. I knew there was a good explanation but didn't think I would come up with it just looking at it. Thanks!
Oh, wait, @24 leads me to see you read this WAY closer than I, rodolfo. Sorry to not see your point at first. (Love the Charles Nelson Reilly avatar...)
@29: I'm with you, I get that it's a reference to the Palin map and all, but I don't see what the implication is with all the political assassinations in U.S. history.
@36 I think the point is that Palin's map reads so much like a hit list that literally all you have to do is swap out the names and move the targets to correspond with actual events, and voila - it's an actual hit list.
I like to think of myself as a relatively thoughtful fellow, but I don't understand this map...the Malcolm X and Dr. Tiller inclusion is where I get thrown. Without them, it's a straightforward "Politicians who were shot" map. Is the inference here "People, many of whom were politicians, who were killed (or almost) for their political beliefs?" Wouldn't Sacco & Vanzetti and some others figure in that event? Oh I don't know...just tell me to shut up. Love how you leveraged the Palin map motif, though.
@50, I was going with that too but Garfield doesn't fit. I've settled for "selected prominent Amurricans physically attacked rather than just yelled at."
@52, I love you for getting so near to "complaisant".
gus, you are making my English major self feel verruh thtoopid today...I had to look that up...you are a smarty pants. Grr. I fear you would beat me in a game of Trivial Pursuit, and I LOVE Trivial Pursuit.
#56: I now understand. The theme the editors ran with is not that American politicians were shot by Americans, the theme is notable American people were shot in the United States. To cut down on artist talent costs, maybe one red map of the United States with the slogan "Red, White and Blammo" can be run every week.
Don't feel bad, Canuck, I only know that word accidentally. Novelist Michael Malone wrote an elderly ex-mob thief called Simon "Weeper" Berg. Before escaping prison he'd whiled away the days trying to absorb the more unusual 50-cent words he found in the dictionary. He'd say things like, "I'm aching in every appurtenance, me who was complaisant with the biggest of the big."
@ 50 not all political assassinations are assassinations of politicans. The Tiller and Malcolm X assassinations were politically motivated and meant to make a political statement.
Oh, that's okay then, gus (even though I know you're just trying to make me feel better--pats top of head) You certainly have an interesting reading list. Someday you'll have to post it, so I don't have to keep combing through pages of comments looking for the ones with the book references...hey! That's what slog needs on their "more about me" page...and now, after reading yours, whenever the Decemberists are on the radio, I think, "Ooo, gus would *not* be pleased..."
I'd have gone with Medgar Evers rather than George Moscone, since Harvey Milk is already represented. Surely Evers is better known than Moscone, plus then you get another surveyor's symbol in a geographical area that doesn't have one rather than two on top of each other.
What about McKinley? There was even an "incitement scandal" attached to that assassination (William Randolph Hearst published a couplet by Ambrose Bierce that was later claimed by some to have been calling for McKinley's assassination).
Jesus. What does it say that you can throw up a poster with sixteen assassinations and attempted assassinations, and half the comments are all "Hey, you forgot this one!"
I'm guessing they had to trim down the list - if they put them all up there, we might not be able to see the map.
If you're using Dr. Tiller then include Dr. Slepian who was gunned down in his house after returning from temple. High Profile and sad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_Sle…
disgusting, but I expect no less from the stranger.
are you also going to publish some proof that the shooter was a fan of sarah palin or that her graphic caused this..or just continue the witch hunt?
i'm sure this comment will be deleted, free speech and all.
Garfield was shot, but should have survived as no major organs were hit. It was multiple doctors using unclean hands (very unclean,as in not having been washed after arriving by horse) and instruments to probe the wound that caused infection and death. Lister's anti-bacterial techniques and solutions were widely known at the time, but the doctors who treated Garfield were old-schoolers who did not believe in his theories. Some historians call Garfield's doctors his actual killers. Guiteau himself actually used that defense at his own trial.
I think that the George Tiller Assassination does not seem to fit with the others as he was not a political figure (though he was politicized). However, if Tiller is going to be included, then it seems Dr. Bernard Slepian should be as well.
But why is Garfield down as an attempt? Or should I be embarrassed at my gnorance of American history?
@6 ask the people of Garfield County.
Awesome, amazing, very cool. Would like a commemorative issue suitable for framing...seriously.
What about Al Lowenstein?
"Cool it, brothers. Be cool, be calm," is a variation on Malcolm X's last words—there's some dispute over what his last words were exactly.
Love me my Assassins soundtrack though.
And John Lennon
this is really edgey
massively mega
cutting edge
in-your-face
razor sharp
no-holds-barred
kick'em-in-the-nuts
cartoon-of-Mohamed-fucking-a-goat kind of edgey.
I hope you cats have living wills.....
I was guessing that "Cool it, brothers" was from West Side Story. It being Dan, and all.
Y'all could make a nice high quality copy available online.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32102828@N0…
@52, I love you for getting so near to "complaisant".
(oh come now, someone was bound to point that out...)
I'd go with "assisted suicide".
"RE-EVALUATE, Bitch!"
On the other hand, you know useful things like how to raise a child and write a column. Showtunes is all I got.
(no disrespect intended to Moscone)
But anyway, this is great.
And if it is going to include attempted assassinations (i.e., Gerald Ford) then why doesn't it include Harry Truman in 1950?
@75 - Honey...he's on there.
@68: 'Sup. Welcome to the club with me and Reverse Polarity.
Maybe it's a fold out cover with Ryan's death correctly located in South America?
Dan, ah I always sound clever till Nixon gets involved! Amends >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJf9QQkZw…
I'm guessing they had to trim down the list - if they put them all up there, we might not be able to see the map.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_Sle…
are you also going to publish some proof that the shooter was a fan of sarah palin or that her graphic caused this..or just continue the witch hunt?
i'm sure this comment will be deleted, free speech and all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_jack…