Văn Trỗi tried to assassinate United States Secretary of DefenseRobert McNamara and future ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. who were visiting South Vietnam in May 1964. Văn Trỗi's last words were "I have committed no sin. It is the Americans who have sinned." (19 October 1964)
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Friday 16th of April 1915 (-) — Black meat thief Caesar Sheffield is taken from the jail at Lake Park and shot to death by unknown parties. Sheffield was arrested the day before, charged with stealing meat from the smoke-house of Elder A. B. Herring and put in jail to await trial.