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{{quote|''"Serial killers only have two names. Ever notice that? But lone assassins always have three. [[Abraham Lincoln|John Wilkes Booth]], [[John F. Kennedy|Lee Harvey Oswald]], [[John Lennon|Mark David Chapman]]..."'' |'''[[Mel Gibson|Jerry Fletcher]]''', ''[[Conspiracy Theory (film)|Conspiracy Theory]]''}}
The paranoid assertion above, as it turns out, is more or less true (much more so than the ones Gibson comes up with on his own time, certainly). For reasons that are not entirely clear even to themselves, news media in the United States (print as well as television) go out of their way to make sure every lone gunman and solitary crazed killer is identified by his full name, regardless of how he is called by relatives, friends and neighbors.
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* In Presidential assassins it's 50/50, but the three-named ones are a ''lot'' more famous:
** John Wilkes Booth -- assassin of President [[Abraham Lincoln]]
** Lee Harvey Oswald -- assassin of President [[John F. Kennedy]]
** Leon Czolgosz -- assassin of President [[William McKinley]] (had no middle name)
** Charles J. Guiteau -- assassin of President [[James Garfield]] (his middle name was Julius, but he never used it)
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