#samuel byck

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How old each of the assassins in the musical were when they committed their assassination or attempt:

Arthur Bremer: 21

Lee Harvey Oswald: 24

Sirhan Sirhan: 24

John Hinckley jr.: 25

John Wilkes Booth: 26

Lynnette “Squeaky” Fromme: 26

Leon Czolgosz: 28

Guiseppe Zangara: 33

Charles Guiteau: 39

James Earl Ray: 40

Samuel Byck: 44

Sara Jane Moore: 45

[lil-als]

My brother drew some assassins

Intentionally drawn to be worse over time. His commentary included.

Booth

“He has weird hair”

Guiteau

“He’s kinda ugly”

Czolgosz

“Do you have a crush on him or something”

Also many creative mispronunciations.

Zangara

“He has a mustache ARE YOU BLIND?”

Mustache Zangara is a thing now… I guess.

Oswald

“He also has a mustache! Who is he?”

Mustache Lee too, I guess.

Byck

“Sam Bitch”

Fromme

“A GIRL? What’s she doing here?”

Moore

“Oh no! Another woman”

Hinckley

“Who is this man?”

Bonus: Abstract Czolgosz

“He’s beautiful!”

Yes he is.

[buck-yyyy]

hi can you tell me a litlw about zangara & byck i know like. nothin about them

OH OH OH OH OH OHHHHH

okay so i’ve not been able to find a whole lot of information about them online, which is :(, BUT!! WE PROCEED NONETHELESS!!!!!

so giuseppe zangara was an italian immigrant who was hella anti-capitalist, and if i remember correctly, it was after a financial plan FDR came up with that he decided to shoot him? that needs to be fact checked though lmao

he was in the crowd of a parade where roosevelt was giving an impromptu speech in the back of a car, and he was so short (5 feet!) that he had to stand on a metal folding chair in order to aim his gun

he fired off one shot before the crowd attempted to stop him, and he unleashed five more shots aimlessly into the crowd. five people total were shot, including chicago mayor cermack, who would die of his wounds about 17-ish days later- though, it’s unclear as to whether or not he would have died if it weren’t for the doctor’s treatments of his wound (similar to president garfield, it was mishandling of the treatment process that would lead to his death). additionally, one woman was burned from the gunpowder, and one man’s hand was grazed by a bullet.

he was convicted of first degree murder, through transfer of intent (though he didn’t intend to kill cermack, he DID intend to kill FDR, and therefore was able to be tried to the fullest extent), and would be sentenced to death, spending only a week on death row. when he found out that there wouldn’t be a crowd at his execution, he was VERY disappointed. he would die by an electric chair, that was nicknamed, i believe, old sparky. no i’m not joking.

additionally, he suffered from chronic stomach pain his entire life, likely resulting from intense labor at the age of six. he underwent multiple surgeries, none of which were successful- and i believe that it was partially due to this intense chronic pain that modern historians wonder whether or not it could have contributed to a possible defense by insanity in court, because of the severity, though that also could use a fact check.

also! there’s a conspiracy that he was actually intending to hit mayor cermack, and that he was a skilled marksman and an assassin hired by a chicago mob boss instructed to kill cermack as retribution for cermack’s attempted hit on said mob boss, though this directly contradicts zangara’s statements about the crime.

and byck! oh, byck.

samuel byck came from a poor family, and grew up with mental health issues. he checked himself into a mental hospital for two months, and it was there were he was radicalized and became certain of richard nixon’s ill-intent towards the poor.

he would be arrested twice for protesting in front of the white house without a permit (once in a santa costume, which is why he’s dressed like that in assassins!), until he decided that the best course of action was not, in fact, protest, but instead that he needed to kill nixon.

he planned to steal a plane and fly it into the white house, and he recorded every step of his plan, because he thought he would be regarded as a hero.

when they day came, he brought a 2 gallon bomb and a gun to the airport and hijacked a plane, ordering the pilots to fly him to the white house. they told him that they could not take off with the doors open, and when byck went to shut the doors, they called both airport security and the police.

when they told him they couldn’t fly the plane without the blocks being removed from the wheels, he got angry and shot both pilots, then dragged a passenger up to the cockpit and ordered her to fly it.

the police eventually came, and they attempted to shoot out the wheels of the plane to prevent it from taking off, though the bullets never punctured. byck would end up shooting a police offer before shooting himself in the head, living for a few minutes after the shot and asking the police to help him.

in total, three people were killed- one of the pilots died before he was able to be brought to the hospital, as well as police officer and, obviously, byck himself.

after the incident, it was found that he had sent an interview with himself to a journalist to publish in the newspaper, again reiterating his belief that he would be hailed as a hero to the american people.

both men would soon fade into relative obscurity but for history nerds and musical fans.

[itsgrapes-exe]

the sequelllllll

drawing of the 4 successful assassins

hooray

[trashpidgeon48]

Assassins Goes Wrong

This is a Niche ass Crossover, but I started to think about what if Cornley did Assassins and here we are. Not entirely sure about all these castings so think of it as a rushed rough draft and give me your ideas on how Cornley Assassins should be cast.

Chris- Balladeer/Lee Harvey Oswald

Robert- John Wilkes Booth/The Proprietor

I think these two are the most obvious casts to me, like we got the ongoing rivalry and the two “leading actors” fighting for attention. Like it reflects their real life dynamic to a T and I think their scenes would be so fun to watch.

Max- Samuel Byck

Weird cast but hear me out. I think Max has it in him. Like to add to the goes wrong factor I think Max attempting to be gruff would be hilarious but I also think he could legitimately do the more emotional parts and draw in the audience. As well as god knows he would break during his monologues and that would be funny af.

Dennis- Giuseppe Zangara

Dennis as Zangara to me would be hilarious cause he would also be bad at foreign languages to me. That’s my only reasoning, I feel like it would fit and if we’re casting based on if it went right who would do a good job, I feel like Zangara would be the easiest role for Dennis to not fuck up? Though I know he would.

Jonathan- John Hinkley Jr.

Idk, something about the man who cheated being the lovestruck assassin would be funny to me and if he didn’t make it on for Unworthy of your love, then Vanessa would have to do it all by herself and that would be fun.

Sandra- Charles J. Guiteau

Sandra being the most showy of the Assassins would be fun. Like I feel like she could act and sing this obnoxious little man, though Max Guiteau could also be fun.

Annie- Sara Jane Moore

Annie would be perfect in this role. I feel like she has the comedic chops for Sara and could very much pull her off.

Vanessa- Lynette Fromme

I want more Vanessa + Annie scenes so that’s what we’ve got. I think in a goes wrong sense her trying to be crazy would create some good comedy. Though you could switch her and Sandra for Fromme.

Lucy- Leon Czolgosz

Kinda left field casting but that’s where I ended up. But I do think Lucy could pull him off if given the chance, though she would be tormented by Robert a lot for Comedy’s sake.

Overall, I’m still unsure about this casting but I love the idea of copious amounts of gun fuckups in Cornley Assassins. Like the amount of times gunshots needed is a lot and those would get so messed up. And god knows they would mess up the Sondheim music. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[hauntedvulcan]

Okay since I'm seeing multiple responses to my tags from that post here's a poll:

[oldshowbiz]

1974.

Samuel Joseph Byck plotted to hijack a plane and crash it into the White House.

[sondheims-hat]

Samuel Byck

Lee Wilkof (1991), Ciarán Hinds (1992), Mario Cantone (2004), Nick Holder (2010), Lee E. Ernst (2012), Mike McShane (2014), Matt Wolfe (2016), Danny Wolohan (2017), Anthony Gooley (2018), James Detmar (2018), Christopher Bloch (2019), Steve Simmonds (2019), Tom Gleadow (2020), Andy Grotelueschen (2021), Will Corkery (2022).

[presidentmckinley]

this one kid there talked like Samuel byck . Down to calling people “babe” and shit

[soviet-space-ace]

Meanwhile, John Schrank, Guiseppe Zangara, and Samuel Byck know exactly how he’s feeling.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 2.21 (after 1950)

1957 – Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột. 1958 – Following a plebiscite in both countries the previous day, Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic. 1959 – Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500. 1972 – The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others. 1973 – Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices. 1974 – The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh. 1974 – Samuel Byck attempts to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate Richard Nixon, but commits suicide after being wounded by police. 1979 – Saint Lucia gains independence from the United Kingdom. 1980 – Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3. 1983 – The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. 1986 – Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines. 1994 – Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union. 1995 – The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified. 1997 – In Roslin, Midlothian, British scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned. 2002 – Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush. 2005 – The 6.4 Mw  Zarand earthquake shakes the Kerman Province of Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 612 people dead and 1,411 injured. 2006 – At approximately 6:44 a.m. local Iraqi time, explosions occurred at the al-Askari Shrine in Samarra, Iraq. The attack on the shrine, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, caused the escalation of sectarian tensions in Iraq into a full-scale civil war. 2006 – The Securitas depot robbery was the UK's largest heist. Almost £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) was stolen from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent. 2011 – New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing 185 people. 2011 – Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests. 2012 – A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others. 2014 – President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328–0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion. 2015 – A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people. 2018 – A man throws a grenade at the U.S. embassy in Podgorica, Montenegro. He dies at the scene from a second explosion, with no one else hurt.

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[buck-yyyy]

cool people have the entirety of mario cantone as samuel byck’s ‘have it your way’ monologue completely memorized

(we’re definitely not cool but shhhh)

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reupload♥️♥️

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I turn into a one man broadway production every time Have It Your Way comes on and I’m not even ashamed of it because it is literally my favourite monologue in any production ever and Mario Cantone is SO GOOD. 

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straight friend groups: *kyle* *blonde girl* *brunette girl* *chad* *the funny one* 

insane friend groups: *racist ex-actor* *immigrant with a belly ache* *working man born in the middle of michigan* *obsessed creep* *charles manson stan* *ridiculed fangirl* *the next ambassador to france* *screaming santa claus* *lee harvey oswald*