5. VIETNAM--America might never have gotten involved in Vietnam had a poison plot in 1908 not backfired. Vietnamese rebels in Hanoi sought to kill the French garrison there by spiking their dinners. But, they either used the wrong poison or the wrong amount. Two hundred French soldiers were ill, but still able to defend themselves.
The revolt fell apart and 13 plotters were executed. The French stayed in control until the 1950s and were later replaced with U.S. troops.
6. A 1916 CHICAGO PLOT AND MARION LAMBERT-- The Feb. 11, 1916, Chicago Tribune reported an attempt by an anarchist to kill many of Chicago's prominent people with poisoned chicken soup. Among them were Illinois' governor Edward Dunne and Archbishop George Mundelein.
That same day, the newspaper also reported the tragic death of Lake Forest high school senior Marion Lambert. Her boyfriend was later acquitted of trying to kill her with cyanide. But she lives on in local ghost stories about motorists driving along Sheridan Road and seeing "a girl in the snow."
Spooky. --DaCoot
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