She felt her heart tremble every time he shot an unsuspecting bird as it was singing in the trees.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed at Ford's Theatre while watching a play with his wife in eighteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

On April fourth, the nation's top civil rights leader, the Reverend Martin Luther King,Junior, was shot and killed in Memphis,Tennessee.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

By then,Lincoln was dead. On April fourteenth,eighty sixty-five, Southern sympathizer and actor John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in Ford's Theatre.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Republicans urged Union men to "vote as you shot" for Ulysses Grant the man who won the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

But he will be remembered as much for his shot-blocking in the NBA as for his charity work in Sudan.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

It began in April of nineteen ninety-four after a plane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, both Hutus,was shot down.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

If a drafted man could not do either thing, then he must join the army or be shot as a deserter.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

His brother also was arrested. An angry mob attacked the jail and shot both Smith and his brother to death.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

Just before sunrise on April twelfth, eighteen sixty-one, the first shot was fired in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

So what happens? He gets a title shot outdoors in the ballpark, and what do I get, a one-way ticket to Palookaville.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

The next day, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and supporter of the defeated Confederacy, shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

This week in our series, Harry Monroe and Kay Gallant tell what happened after President Garfield was shot.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

The man who shot James Garfield -- Charles Guiteau -- was tried by a court in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.04.22