article_snippet: The first U.S. ambassador assassinated while in office was John Gordon Mein, the U.S. ambassador to Guatemala.
article_snippet: According to a telegram from the embassy in Guatemala City, a young man dressed in fatigues and carrying a sub-machine gun on  August 28, 1968, ordered Mein's vehicle to stop and for The first U.S. ambassador assassinated while in office to get out.
article_snippet: The first U.S. ambassador assassinated while in office did, then ran -- prompting a cry of "Shoot The first U.S. ambassador assassinated while in office, kill The first U.S. ambassador assassinated while in office.
article_snippet: About eight months after President Jimmy Carter appointed President Jimmy Carter as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs was taken from Adolph Dubs car while heading home from the embassy.
article_snippet: Adolph Dubs captors took the Foreign Service veteran to the Hotel Kabul, where Adolph Dubs died in a shootout between captors and Afghan police -- a violent death that, whomever fired the fatal bullets, the U.S. State Department considers an assassination.