Assassinations have always acted as indicators or warnings of adverse conditions or dangers that our societies are facing. In this case, the assassinated figures are like canaries, small songbirds that miners used to cage and carry into coals mines to alert them of the danger of methane, since these birds would stop singing and die from the slightest presence of the gas in the mine tunnels. These assassinations turned out to the potent catalysts that have jolted or moved countries and continents away from their evolutionary if not reformatory paths, resulting in seismic changes that transformed them in fundamental ways by leading to wars, political changes and even economic transformations. In this account, Janvier T. Chando presents us with an insight into political assassinations that jolted our world, ranging from the bizarre, to the grotesque, to the senseless . These are: Franz Ferdinand: The Archduke and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne who was killed by the Bosnian Serb nationalists Gavrilo Princip in 1914 John F. Kennedy: American president killed by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 * Patrice Lumumba: The first democratically elected leader of the infant nation of Congo (the former Belgian Congo) who was liquidated in 1961, plunging the country into a chaos that it has not recovered from close to six decades after Mahatma Gandhi: The preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement that led to India's independence from British-ruled, and the father of the nonviolent civil disobedience, who posthumously inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world Abraham Lincoln: The American president who abolished slavery, killed by John Wilkes Booth in 1865 Felix-Roland Moumie: The Cameroonian anti-colonialist leader assassinated in Geneva in 1960 by the SDECE (French secret service) with thallium And dozens more! Janvier T. Chando 's well- researched and fast-moving account provides insight into the political slayings over the last century and a half, and the staggering effects they had and/or are still having in those countries and the world at large by influencing their Politics, Geopolitics, international relations, conspiracies and secret agendas.