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To look back at the history of these attempts is to see a recurring struggle to maintain order in the face of chaos. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 was the most successful part of a much larger, failed conspiracy. That same night, the attackers targeted the Vice President and the Secretary of State, hoping to trigger a total collapse of the Union government at the end of the Civil War. It was a stark reminder that an assassin’s bullet is rarely just about the man; it is about the destabilization of the system he represents.