An assassination is defined generally as: "to murder (a usually prominent person) by a sudden and/or secret attack, often for political reasons." Alternatively, assassination may be defined as "the act of deliberately killing someone, especially a public figure, usually for hire or for political reasons."
An assassination may be prompted by religious, ideological, political, or military motives; it may be carried out for the prospect of financial...
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Includes causes of death:
- Assassination by firearm ,
- Assassination in ways which appear natural ,
- Assassination by 'Suicide' ,
- Assassination by 'Accident'
Films On This Subject:
- Nikita ,
- Point of No Return ,
- Passport to Destiny ,
- Inglourious Basterds ,
- The Assassination of Richard Nixon ,
- Contract Killers
Quotations About This Subject:
- 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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