Assassination Attempts on Garfield Lucas Webster

Garfield Lucas Webster, 3rd Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria, was the target of many attempted assassinations. Webster was never assassinated, thus none of these attempted assassinations were successful.

Webster suffered a total 35 assassination attempts in his entire life.

## Background and Motivations

Right-wingers were the largest field of those who wish to end Webster's life because of his unprecedented expansion of social democracy. Most of the perpetrators of attempted assassinations against Webster were conservatives, and their hatred for Webster involved a desire to kill him.

Left-wingers were also inclined to try to end to Webster's life despite Webster was a left-winger himself. While many left-wingers did support Webster avidly, there were those form the far-left who sharply criticize him for not being left-wing enough in their eyes. Left-wing assassination attempts escalated during the Russian Revolution, communists trying to end Webster's life as a form of a coup against Webster, though unlike the right-wing coup attempt from 1913, there was never a left-wing attempt to overthrow Webster due to political orientation bias.

## Early Assassination Efforts

Five assassination attempts targeting the young Garfield Webster.

### Childhood

1. **June 8, 1867** - A drunk Catholic priest tries and fails to drown the 7-year-old Webster, thinking he was only trying to baptize him, this was why Webster has drunk a single glass of alcohol.
2. **October 4, 1873** - The second person in Webster's life who tries to threaten his life was a family member, his paternal uncle Carlisle takes Webster to the farm in Grosmont, he then tries to drown Garfield in a tub of water meant for the horses, but his father George and grandfather Galusha pulled Carlisle away from Garfield, thus saving him from cardiac arrest. Carlisle was arrested for child endangerment and attempted murder under British law.

### Adolescence

1. **December 20, 1875** - Carlisle Webster tries for the second time to kill Garfield, this time via shotgun, Carlisle sneaks into Garfield's room to do his deed, but Carlisle stepped on a nail and woke up Garfield and George, George drags Carlisle out of Garfield's room and beats him up.
2. **June 8, 1877** - A fellow student from Ampleforth College tries to shoot Garfield with a pistol but was stopped by school faculty.

### As President of the Socialist Republic of North America

1. **October 18, 1901** - Following after becoming President of the Socialist Republic of North America, David Harlow tries to sneak a gun to a reception for Webster, but Harlow wasn't smart enough to bypass security.

## List of Assassination Attempts during Webster's Premiership

### 1910 (3)

1. **January 3, 1910** - two days after Webster becomes Prime Minister, a black separatist tried to stab Webster when he was shaking the hands of a line of men invited to meet the new Prime Minister. The knife was crippled, thereby it was too weak to hit Webster straight.
2. **March 4, 1910** - a man was invited to have dinner with the Prime Minister, he retrieved the invitation as part of his plan to poison Webster. The man was Jared Wilkes, and he feared that Webster would bring socialism to Chawosauria, so in order to stop Webster, Wilkes has to poison him. Wilkes sneaks into the kitchen to put a poison pill into a dish of salad, without even realizing that he and Webster are both gonna have salad for dinner. Wilkes sits down with Webster and the two men receive their salad dishes. Wilkes, while eating his salad, felt something hard in his throat when he swallowed and realized that he has eaten the poison pill that Webster was supposed to swallow, as the symptoms of the poison pill started to kick in, Wilkes excuses himself from Webster to go the restroom, only to drop dead after he has gotten up from his chair to Webster's confusion.
3. **June 16, 1910** - Webster was walking with Rawlings and Berks to discuss the national boarding school proposal, a woman sneaks behind the three men and tries to shoot her pistol at Webster, but after she just pulled the trigger with a good aim at Webster, the gun does not fire, so she looks around the pistol to see what went wrong, and when she pointed at herself while still searching for the pistol's error, the pistol shoots her face and she dies, Webster, Rawlings, and Berks called for a car ride home and an ambulance to retrieve the woman's body.

### 1911 (2)

1. **January 17, 1911** - Garfield Webster's 51st birthday was on January 17th, and there was a big birthday ball for Webster. A person tried to enter the ball with a pistol strapped to his ankle, but as he was about to enter the ball after being approved by the soldiers guarding the entrance, the pistol falls from his ankle and the soldiers wrestled him to the ground and arrested him. In the interrogation, the man admitted that the purpose of the pistol hiding in his ankle was to kill Webster.
2. **October 31, 1911** - An occultist tried to assassinate Webster in the name of Satan at a Halloween ball, in which Webster was absent, he was in his office working on tax issues with Emperor Santiago.

### 1912 (3)

1. **January 17, 1912** - Another assassination attempt to ruin a birthday, a bomb exploded at Webster's birthday reception at the Chawopolis Palace with the anticipation it will set the entire Palace on fire, but the bomb wasn't strong enough to cause that much damage, nobody was either killed or harmed, and Webster wasn't present at his own birthday reception, he was at a hotel having sex with his secretary, Joan Isla Wendell (1891-1956). The perpetrators of the bomb attack were right-wing extremists, and they were successfully tracked down and prosecuted, they were sentenced to death. The morning after the attack, Webster returned to work with Joan Wendell both not professionally dressed. Joan Wendell's husband, Jack Harlow, divorced her.
2. **January 22, 1912** - Furious that Webster slept with his wife Joan Wendell, Jack Harlow tries to shoot Webster from a distance in a hotel room in the hotel across the street from a rally where Webster will give a speech, as Jack is about to shoot Webster as Webster was preparing to speak, Jack was caught from behind by a soldier and he was shot by the soldier before he would Webster.
3. **June 23, 1912** - The day after Webster attended the 1912 Republican National Convention in support of Theodore Roosevelt, Webster was attacked by Thomas Drake Winslow, a Black Chawosaurian who felt Webster was a racist for refusing to integrate his boarding school system. Winslow tried to stab Webster in his hotel room in Hotel Florence, but the knife breaks and fails to cause physical harm on Webster, Webster's bodyguards wrestles Winslow down.

### 1913 (1)

1. **July 4, 1913: 1913 Coup Attempt against Garfield Lucas Webster** - plans to assassinate Webster if he fails to meet the rebels' demands were in place. The coup failed because Webster was absent from Chawopolis City the whole time.

### 1914 (7)

1. **March 13, 1914: 1914 Musket Assault on Garfield Lucas Webster** - An American Southerner from Alabama, Joshua Levi Colfax, hated Webster because of his successful implementation of social democracy, he tired to assassinate Webster while Webster and his new wife, Josephina Van Valkenburgh, were taking a car ride around the park in Chawopolis City which was their daily morning routine. Colfax failed to assassinate Webster because the car Webster and his wife were in has outrun Colfax and there a mass panic in the park caused by Colfax assaulting the Websters. Colfax's musket was stepped on by people screaming and running after they knocked Colfax down. Colfax was spotted by soldiers patrolling the park, he was sentenced to death for disturbing public peace and threatening the life of Webster.
2. **August 4, 1914** - An anti-war activist blamed Webster for the onset of World War I as many others did as part of the decline in popularity suffered by Webster because of the war. The activist tried to shoot Webster while he was shaking hands at a political event, the activist shoots the wrong guy and he was wrestled into the ground by Webster's bodyguards.
3. **August 28, 1914** - Another anti-war activist tries to kill Webster via shotgun, he shoots at Webster but the anti-war activist (John Benjamin Nichols) was the first person to successfully wounds Webster, but still fails to kill Webster. Nichols was wrestled to the ground and arrested. Webster recovers from his bullet wound.
4. **September 8, 1914** - The third anti-war activist in a role has tried to take Webster's life due to his anger towards Webster. The anti-war activist going by the name Leonard McMiller tries to enter a ball with a pistol hiding in his jacket, but the guard notices the weapon somehow and arrests McMiller.
5. **September 11, 1914** - The fourth anti-war activist (Dorthea Bryzgalova) runs to Garfield Webster to shoot him, Bryzgalova is the second woman after that woman from the park four years earlier to try to kill Webster. She pulls the trigger and Webster was shot, but the bullet flew past his arm, cutting him, but the woman was wrestled to the ground, she was arrested. Webster recovers from his second bullet wound.
6. **September 22, 1914** - The fifth anti-war activist (Nick Wolfe) shoots his shotgun from a rally Webster was speaking too. Wolfe tries to shoot Webster but misses because Webster was moving too much, the audience wrestled Wolfe down and waited until the police comes to the crowd holding Wolfe and arrests Wolfe.
7. **October 4, 1914** - The sixth anti-war activist (Jean-Antoine Aurelien Bourbon, a member of the Bourbon family and brother of Lorraine Bourbon, who was Webster's first love) turns on Webster and actually tries to kill him, that was a big betrayal felt by Webster himself. Jean-Antoine Bourbon visits Webster in his office, and as Webster was about to shake Bourbon's hand, Bourbon takes his knife and tries to stab Webster in the heart right in front of his sister, Lorraine, who again once dated Webster. Bourbon was stopped, including by his own sister Lorraine Bourbon, from killing Webster. As Jean-Antoine Bourbon was being dragged away from Webster, Jean-Antoine yelled *"this fucking war is on you, Garfield!"* and Webster was shocked by Jean-Antoine's betrayal. In prison, Lorraine disowned her brother for his betrayal, Lorraine remained avidly loyal to Webster. Jean-Antoine's son, Gregoire Bourbon, died in combat in World War I in 1918 in his own ancestral country, France. Gregoire's death cost Webster Lorraine's loyalty. When Webster died in 1955, Lorraine refused to go to his funeral because of the permanent grief she still felt because of her nephew's death.

### 1915 (1)

1. **June 16, 1915** - On a trip to San Francisco, Webster was visiting the city for a political affair. Angry over Webster's LGBT policies, a drag queen (Daniel Miller) tried to attack Webster for his opposition to LGBT rights. Miller tried to stab Webster in the heart to kill him, but he was stopped by Webster's bodyguards and was arrested for threatening the life of the Prime Minister. 100-years later, the United States will legalize same-sex marriage nationwide ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court, using the *Obergefell v. Hodges* suit by deciding its case. Miller is the only LGBT person to threaten Webster's life. It is also the only assassination attempt in 1915.

### 1916 (7)

1. **March 8, 1916** - Part of the onset of the Russian Revolution of 1917, far-left opposition to Webster begins to escalate because of escalating anti-war sentiment, a Bolshevik (a Russian communist), by the name Dimitry Ivanovich Bugalov (1889-1969) was once a Webster supporter but turned on Webster because of WWI. Bugalov wanted to kill Webster because his brother Grischa died in the war, and he felt Webster was responsible. To avenge his brother, he joins the Bolsheviks, becomes a member of the left-wing resistance to Webster, buys a gun, and goes after Webster. On March 8, 1916, Webster was walking out of a political event, Bugalov shoots Webster but misses, his bullet hit one of Webster's bodyguards in the back of the head, killing him instantly. Bugalov was wrestled into the ground by other bodyguards.
2. **May 18, 1916** - Webster was walking through a park in Malibu, California, where another bodyguard of Webster was shot in the back of the head, Webster successfully escaped due to a big panic fired by the death of the Webster bodyguard.
3. **June 4, 1916** - Webster was targeted by a klansman who opposed Webster's slim attempt to improve the lives of Black Chawosaurians and Webster's Chawo-Klan War. Webster was giving a speech to a rally supporting fewer civil rights proposals, gunshots were fired but the klansman overestimated his aiming skills, thus failing to hit Webster, realizing he couldn't shoot again, he got the heck out of dodge but he was reported by a rally attendee and a few witnesses, the klansman was tracked down by the Chawosaurian Imperial Army, they broke his door down and gunned him down in his own home. The klansman's death was part of the Chawosaurian government's mass executions of Chawosaurians who took part in the re-established Ku Klux Klan (the second klan).
4. **August 18, 1916** - There was a group assassination attempt against Webster. At a military parade, a truckload of anti-war militants jumped out and tried to throw grenades at Webster, but the grenades did not blow up until five minutes later, the two grenades blew up, destroying the balcony with Webster on it, but Webster survived his fall but the military service leaders were killed, the assassins thought they succeeded in killing Webster. Webster was found and rescued by the Imperial Army unharmed. The militia group was found and killed by Chawosaurian militias.
5. **October 20, 1916** - This is called the Halloween Surprise, though Halloween was in 9-days away, at a party, Webster was attacked by a man dressed as the grim reaper with his knife, but tripped on his custom and accidentally stabbed himself and eventually killing himself.
6. **November 7, 1916** - The United States was having a presidential election on November 7, 1916, the incumbent President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson (Democrat-New Jersey) was running for a second term. Webster head back to Boston to vote for the Republican Party, but he was targeted by an anarchist as he was walking into a voting station, poll workers rushed Webster inside while the anarchist was shooting his gun but he was taken down by the Boston police, the remaining line of voters were allowed to vote. President Wilson won reelection by a narrow margin, the Republicans made significant inroads in the House of Representatives, nearly recapturing a slim majority, and Republicans made just a couple of gains in the Senate while still failing to win back a majority there. Webster was disappointed in the 1916 election results and said Theodore Roosevelt would've made a great candidate instead of Hughes. The anarchist was sentenced to life in prison in an unknown prison, he died of a heart attack in 1964 while still behind bars in a Texas prison.
7. **December 25, 1916** - At a Christmas party in the Chawopolis Palace, Webster was targeted again by a shooter who hated Webster. The Christmas party was shot up and the shooter was taken down by party attendees, he was arrested and beaten by the Chawosaurian Imperial Army, one Chawosaurian soldier broke his shotgun and stole his bullets. December 25th will still be Webster's deathdate in 39-years from 1916.

### 1917 (4)

1. **January 1, 1917** - Another assassination attempt against Webster, at a New Years Party at the Chawopolis Palace, a man by Charlie Boston came up with a way to poison Webster, he will try to poison Webster's drink to kill him, but he remembers that the last person who tried to poison Webster ended up poisoning himself instead 7-years earlier, Boston sneaks into the kitchen to poison Webster's drink, though Boston never realized that he and Webster are gonna drink the same fruit beverage. At dinner time at a Los Angeles retreat, both Webster and Boston are given their drinks and seafood, the two men proceed in eating and then Boston was the first to take his drink, then he realizes he just took a sip of the poisonous drink that Webster was supposed to drink, Boston excuses himself to the bathroom where he suffers a cerebral hemorrhage caused by the drink and falls with his head falling straight into a toilet that wasn't flushed, and he drowns.
2. **March 10, 1917** - There was gonna be a communist coup in Chawopolis City to overthrow the entire 3rd Chawopolis Palace, including Webster, but the coup plans were tracked down by the military and the coup planners were arrested and shot.
3. **September 20, 1917** - The last time Webster was allowed to go to a party, a man named Thomas Kern tried and failed to shoot Webster but his gun was unloaded. Kern was shot and killed by a soldier.
4. **November 3, 1917** - Another Anti-War activist tried to shoot Webster during his tour to Vancouver, but a soldier sneaks behind the shooter before he even pulled the trigger and threatens to shoot him in the back of his head if he dares pull the trigger, the anti-war activist surrenders his gun and is still shot in the head for standing down his weapon to the soldier.

### 1918 (0)

Due to Webster's mental collapse, there were no assassination attempts on Webster because they kept him inside because he went insane.

### 1919 (1)

1. **April 18, 1919** - The only assassination attempt against Webster in the year 1919, during Webster's Visit to Australia, a Bolshevik tries and fails to shoot Webster during his state visit to Australia. This is the last assassination attempt to threaten Webster's life as Prime Minister.

## List of Assassination Attempts during Webster's retirement

These are assassination attempts against Webster during his retirement.

1. **June 4, 1943** - Webster was targeted with an assassination attempt when he was speaking for a labor union in Saranac Lake, New York, to support the war effort of the United States and President Franklin D. Roosevelt for his reelection in the 1944 election.

This 1943 assassination attempt will be the very last assassination threat on Webster's life. Webster died from brain cancer on December 25, 1955, in Anchorage, Alaska, at 95.

## Assassination Conspiracy Theories about Webster's Death

Since Webster's death in 1955 to brain cancer, there was a left-wing conspiracy theory that his brain cancer wasn't caused by natural causes, it was the result of poisoning by the conservative forces of the right-wing Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII as a form of revenge against Webster. This theory was never proven, but it was the result of Bismarck's efforts to keep Webster's death a secret from the public to prevent a potential *rally 'round the flag effect* for left-wing politics due to grief among the public.

## Legacy and Analysis

Garfield Webster was the most hunted Prime Minister in Chawosaurian history because of his non-mainstream politics and the fears of the result that kind of politics would have on Chawosauria. These assassination attempts made Webster have a sympathetic public image and made him look more heroic. None of these people who tried to kill Webster are glorified as heroes.

## See also

* 1914 Musket Assault on Garfield Lucas Webster - prominent assassination attempt on Webster.
* 1913 Coup Attempt against Garfield Lucas Webster - prominent assassination attempt on Webster.
* 1918 Mental Decline of Garfield Lucas Webster
* 1918 Coup Scheme against Garfield Lucas Webster