Coming soon from the BBC World Service, the assassination with our award-winning Owen Bennett Jones.

Assassinations are at once big and small.

They can move history, but in their detail they move us to dramatic moments of courage,

scheming, deception, jeopardy and power relationships turned upside down.

The shot rang out and he slumped down the scene with his wife, Rhee Stout.

Americans of a certain age remember where they were when they heard that an unknown man

had felt an icon.

President Kennedy died at 1pm Central Standard Time.

In this series of podcasts, I'll reveal more about the murder of someone I knew a little.

According upon my countrymen to join me.

Pakistan's former prime minister, Benazir Bouto.

This is not a battle for me to see you go to.

This is a battle to save Pakistan.

Her family is to Pakistan what the Kennedys are to the US.

The Bouto name carries glamour, power.

I'm a threat to dictatorship.

I'm a threat to the extremists.

And complaints of corruption and entitlement.

I was born in a house of privilege, enemies, fear me.

Benazir Bouto was the first woman to lead a Muslim country.

Even with her privilege, it was some achievement.

Pakistan is home to nearly 200 million people wedged between India to the east and Afghanistan

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