Assassination

Assassination is the targeted killing of a public figure. Assassinations may be prompted by ideological, political, or military reasons. Additionally, assassins may be motivated by financial gain, revenge, personal public recognition, or mental illness. Targeted killing (or extrajudicial punishment/execution) is also used as a euphemism for the government-sanctioned...

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People Who Died This Way:

Mahatma Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
Benigno Aquino, Jr.
Olof Palme
Yitzhak Rabin
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Julius Caesar
Amalaric
Alexander II of Russia
Aleksandar Obrenović

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Assassination by firearm
Assassination in ways which appear natural
Assassination by 'Suicide'
Assassination by 'Accident'

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Murder

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Honey, I forgot to duck.
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.
The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.
I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead -- the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

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