Terrorism

1950s

• During this and the next decade, the Ku Klux Klan re-emerged. Some of the tactics used were lynching, cross burning and assassination.
• 1950, 1 November: Puerto Rican nationalists failed to assassinate U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
• 1951, 16 October: Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated by two gunshots to the chest in a public meeting of the Muslim City League at Municipal Park, Rawalpindi by Saad Akbar Babrak, an Afghan from the Zadran tribe Pacha Khan Zadran.
• 1954, 1 March: U.S. Capitol shooting incident by Puerto Rican nationalists wounded five Congressmen.^[35]
• 1955, 11 April: Air India "Kashmir Princess" (Lockheed Constellation) went down on the sea near Natuna Islands, Indonesia after a bomb explosion, killing 16 people. The plane was chartered by the People's Republic of China (PRC) government for carrying an official delegation to Bandung Conference in Bandung, Indonesia. Possible suspects included a Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) secret agent who put the bomb in the aircraft during transit in Hong Kong, intending to kill PRC Prime Minister Zhou Enlai.^[36]
• 1955, 28 August: Lynching of Emmett Louis Till in Mississippi.^[37]
• 1955, August: Members of the Algerian FLN massacred civilians in the town of Philippeville.
• 1956, 30 September: The FLN set off bombs at the office of Air France and elsewhere in Algiers.
• 1958, 12 October: Bombing of the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple in Atlanta, Georgia, suspected to have been done by white separatists.^[38]