With the musical satire by Stephen Sondheim and accompanying manuscript by John Weidman, Assassins revisits the history of attempts on the Commanders-in-Chief of the United States. Everyone from John Wilkes Booth with Abraham Lincoln to John Hinckley, Jr., his failed 1981 carrying-out upon Ronald Reagan to Jodie Foster, to Lee Harvey Oswald and JFK, where the earlier is persuaded to join the group of assassins due to shared (and scared) connections with one another.