Praetorian Guard, (examples & discussion)

Praetorian Guard:

The Praetorian Guard (Latin: cohortes praetoriae) was an elite unit of the Imperial Roman army that served as personal bodyguards and intelligence agents for the Roman emperors.

During the Roman Republic, the Praetorian Guards were escorts for high-ranking political officials (senators and procurators) and were bodyguards for the senior officers of the Roman legions. In 27 BC, after Rome's transition from republic to empire, the first emperor of Rome, Augustus, designated the Praetorians as his personal security escort. For three centuries, the guards of the Roman emperor were also known for their palace intrigues, by whose influence upon imperial politics the Praetorians could overthrow an emperor and then proclaim his successor as the new Caesar of Rome. In AD 312, Constantine the Great disbanded the cohorts praetoriae and destroyed their barracks at the Castra Praetoria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praetorian_Guard

Attempted fake assassinations of Gerald Ford:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Gerald_Ford_in_Sacramento

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeaky_Fromme

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Gerald_Ford_in_San_Francisco

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Jane_Moore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Pope_John_Paul_II

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Moro

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_de_Mohrenschildt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Calvi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Castellano

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Sindona