Four men entered America’s history books by taking the lives of US Presidents: Booth, Guiteau, Czolgosz, and Oswald. Yet, for every assassin who achieved that aim, countless others attempted the same act of political annihilation, their schemes collapsing before fruition, condemning them to perpetual obscurity. Among these forgotten figures stands the protagonist of Niels Muller’s 2004 period drama, *The Assassinati…







