Didn’t I lay this all out before in this blog… Isn’t About Time We Called Out The Three Name Assassin | FU I’m from Jersey? With the shots fired from Cole Tomas Allen at the just passed White House Correspondents’ Association dinner it seems the 3-name assassin phenomena is alive and well.
Let’s go over my list again, those who merely made attempts, seemed to want to make an attempt, and those who succeeded…
- President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth.
- James Earl Ray shooter of Martin Luther King (a rare case of both assassin and victim sporting three names).
- Lee Harvey Oswald killed President Kennedy (even if he might not have, whomever hung the shooting on him knew enough to pick a dude with three names).
- Mark David Chapman killer of John Lennon.
- Thomas Matthew Crooks, Ryan Wesley Routh and now Cole Tomas Allen, all taking aim or seemingly wanting to, at Trump.
Who knows why these things happen the way they do, but there is no denying that so many of these shooters, successful or thwarted, sport three names. Or maybe the powers-that-be/press in these cases has latched onto my theory and pushes to find, as well as spell out a shooter’s middle name just to give depth to my three-name phenomena.
I know there have been plenty of two-named assassins. Tyler Robinson shot and killed Charlie Kirk, and it’s theorized that World War One was triggered off two-named Gavrilo Princip killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary (please note, official titles, like ‘Archduke,” do not count as a third name for a 3-name assassin assignation). And surely there’s no denying the fantastic double hit of Robert Kennedy’s killer Sirhan Sirhan. But with Cole Tomas Allen’s most recent attempt (and is that anyway to spell Thomas, really?!) my 3-name assassin phenomena is indeed alive and well.
