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Barack Obama [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama], the 44th president of the United States [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States], was involved in multiple security incidents, including several assassination threats and plots, starting from when he became a presidential candidate in 2007. Secret Service [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service] protection for Obama began after he received a death threat in 2007, while serving as the junior United States senator from Illinois and running for president [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election]. This marked the earliest time a candidate received such protection before being nominated.[1] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_incidents_involving_Barack_Obama#cite_note-NYT070504-1] Security was increased early for Obama due to fears of possible assassination attempts by white supremacist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacist] or other racist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism] groups or individuals against the first African American [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American] major party presidential nominee.[2] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_incidents_involving_Barack_Obama#cite_note-ParksHeard-2][3] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_incidents_involving_Barack_Obama#cite_note-3][4] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_incidents_involving_Barack_Obama#cite_note-NYT0826-4]

Frédéric Pierre Bourdin[1] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bourdin#cite_note-observer-1] (born 13 June 1974)[2] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bourdin#cite_note-mbrown-2] is a French serial impostor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor] the press has nicknamed "The Chameleon".[3] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bourdin#cite_note-telegraph-3] He began his impersonations as a child and claims to have assumed at least 500 false identities; [4] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bourdin#cite_note-lplitt-4] three being teenage missing people [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_people].[3] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bourdin#cite_note-telegraph-3][5] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bourdin#cite_note-bbc-5]

Elmer J. McCurdy (January 1, 1880 – October 7, 1911) was an American outlaw [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw] who was killed in a shoot-out with police after robbing a train in Oklahoma [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma] in October 1911. Dubbed "The Bandit Who Wouldn't Give Up", his mummified [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy] body was first put on display at an Oklahoma funeral home and then became a fixture on the traveling carnival [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_carnival] and sideshow [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideshow] circuit during the 1920s through the 1960s. After changing ownership several times, McCurdy's remains eventually wound up at The Pike [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pike] amusement zone [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusement_park] in Long Beach [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Beach,_California], California [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California], where they were discovered by crew members for the television series The Six Million Dollar Man [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Six_Million_Dollar_Man] and positively identified in December 1976.

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut "Champion" Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934) were American outlaws [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw] who traveled the Central United States [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_United_States] with their gang [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrow_Gang] during the Great Depression [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression], committing a series of criminal acts such as bank robberies, kidnappings, and murders between 1932 and 1934. The couple were known for their bank robberies and multiple murders, although they preferred to rob small stores or rural gas stations. Their exploits captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is occasionally referred to as the "public enemy era [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_enemy#US_Public_Enemy_Era]" between 1931 and 1934. They were ambushed by police and shot dead in Bienville Parish, Louisiana [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bienville_Parish,_Louisiana]. They are believed to have murdered at least nine police officers and four civilians.[1] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde#cite_note-1][2] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde#cite_note-riding-2]

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language]: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language]: Карибский кризис, romanized [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian]: Karibskiy krizis), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States] and the Soviet Union [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union], when American deployments of nuclear missiles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_delivery] in Italy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy] and Turkey [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey] were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba]. The crisis lasted from 16 to 28 October 1962. The confrontation is widely considered the closest [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls] the Cold War [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War] came to escalating into full-scale nuclear war [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_warfare].[1] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis#cite_note-1]