I am not quite sure how to understand Baudrillard's interpretations on the failed assassination attempts on President Nixon, Ford, etc. He says, "The Kennedys were murdered because they still had a political dimension. The others, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, only had the right to phantom attempts, to simulated murders. But this aura of an artificial menace was still necessary" (19). I assume that B does not mean to imply that these assassinations were orchestrated events. B seems to treat these events as isolated from their true objective historical context.