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Title: Assassinations


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Assassinations
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Definition
  • Assassination To murder a prominent person by
    surprise attack, often for political reasons

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Hashshashin
  • Believed that the word Assassin comes from the
    Arabic word Hashshashin
  • Was a militant Muslim religious sect active from
    700s 1300s in the Middle East
  • According to stories
  • Had base called Alamut high on a mountain
  • Grew hashish plants which they smoked
  • Supposedly would get high before attempting
    assassinations with daggers
  • Did assassinate many Muslim Caliphs (rulers)

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Alamut
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Assassins Motives
  • Attract attention to a cause
  • Personal reasons
  • Revenge
  • Jealousy
  • Money
  • Political gain
  • Ideology how you think government should be run
  • Often to gain throne
  • Military target
  • Insanity or psychological problems

Can be carried out by individuals or governments
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Weapon of Choice
  • In ancient times
  • Stabbing
  • Bludgeoning
  • Strangulation
  • Poison
  • In modern times, technique is very regional (guns
    most common)
  • In India, stabbings with swords popular
  • Machete in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Explosives in Middle East and Europe
  • Guns in the Americas

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Famous Assassinations in World History
  • Julius Caesar on Roman Senate floor
  • In Russia, 5 Tsars assassinated in 200 years
  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand started WWI
  • Gandhi in 1948 by Hindu extremist
  • Attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II
  • Thousands more

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Inejiro Asanuma Japanese politician
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US Presidential Assassination Attempts
  • 18 attempted assassinations
  • 4 presidents killed
  • Abraham Lincoln (1865)
  • By John Wilkes Booth, Southern Sympathizer
  • James Garfield (1881)
  • By Charles J. Guiteau, man turned down for job
  • William McKinley (1901)
  • By Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist that hid gun in
    cast
  • John Kennedy (1963)
  • By Lee Harvey Oswald
  • Killed by Jack Ruby, who shortly died of cancer

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Garfield died from infection 3 months later due
to bad doctors
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Kennedy The Mother of All Conspiracy Theories
  • Shot by a rifle from a book depository
  • Bullet holes in head, neck, and back
  • Governor of Texas was also shot but survived
  • Idea of the second gunman on the grassy knoll
  • Some believe that the Cubans, FBI, CIA, USSR, or
    the Mafia were involved in the shooting

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Failed attempts
  • Andrew Jackson (insane man missed shots)
  • Teddy Roosevelt (folded speech in pocket slowed
    bullet)
  • FDR (man next to him shot to death)
  • Harry Truman (abushed while White House being
    renovated)
  • JFK (car bomber changed mind when saw family)
  • Nixon (man wanted to fly plane into white house)
  • Gerald Ford (member of Manson family)
  • Jimmy Carter (snipers caught at mall)
  • Ronald Reagan (shot in lung but survived, man
    insane)
  • George Bush Sr. (Saddam tried to have killed with
    carbomb)
  • Clinton (guy shot gun at white house, another guy
    crashed plane onto white house lawn)
  • George Bush Jr. (2005 Man in country of Georgia
    threw grenade)
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