The assassin must be successful, historical and real.
2006-10-18 03:17:00 · 25 answers · asked by ? 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Okay. Let me clarify. 1. It's your personal favourite in your opinion. Maybe you thought they had style, boldnessm, marytdom or a genuine belief in their cause. 2. It has to be one invdividual personality from real life, not a group or a comic book charcter. 3. He has to be successful in that he killed his intended victim regardless of whether he/she died in the process. PLease name the target as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin
Above is where you will find the definition of an Assassin. Not a serial killer like Jack the Ripper. Nor a dictator responsible for genocide such as Hitler!
2006-10-18 04:03:25 · update #1
Charlotte Corday who assassinated Jean Paul Marat during the French Revolution. Not because I think he deserved death particularly but because of her boldness.
2006-10-18 03:46:35 · answer #1 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm partial to nutcases and the particularly inept. My favorite example of the former is Charles Guiteau who killed President Garfield because he believed he was the only suitable choice for the position of Ambassador to France, and was bitterly disappointed when he was ignored by the president.
My favorite example of the latter is Gavrilo Princip, who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and kicked off World War I. The number of screwups this guy and his friends made were only topped by the number of screwups made by Ferdinand's security people. The whole incident is a comedy (tragedy?) of errors.
If you're interested in this subject, you may enjoy Sarah Vowell's book Assassination Vacation, which is wonderful, and/or Stephen Sondheim's musical, Assassins.
2006-10-18 11:25:10 · answer #2 · answered by lcraesharbor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well for me it would have to be Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Grigoryevich_Zaitsev
Although the film "Enemy At The Gates" took loads of 'artistic license' in his role in the war its was inspiring enough for people to find out more about this guy.
Arron Perry is a very close second.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arron_Perry
2006-10-18 10:24:40 · answer #3 · answered by jason12211 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't say "favorite" but Gavrio Princip's assination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophie was the spark that lit the powder keg and touched off WWI.
For those who aren't knowldgeable..Ferdinand was the newphew of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria and clearly the successor to the Austrian throne. Princip, a sometime student and anarchist met with co-conspirtors in Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzogovina) and decided to kill Ferdinand for political reasons as he and his wife travelled by motorcade through the city.
One conspitator tossed a bomb in front of the Archduke's car. It exploded and wounded some onlookers and a couple of soldiers and policemen. The car stopped and as it was turning Princip stepped forward and fired a pistol, striking the Archduke and his wife. Ferdinand's last word's were to his wife as he shouted "Sophie...don't die...you must live for the children". Both later died enroute to the hospital. Princip was chased down by the crowd and police..beaten badly, arrested, tried and executed.
This was the perfect excuse for Kaiser Whilhelm of Germany to push the issue with Austria and insist that they go to war with Serbia..whose Muslim population was raising hell with Austria anyway and afforded the perfect oppurtunity to go in and take the country as it's own.
Naturally there were a series of bad diplomatic moves, missed cables, misunderstood actions like mobilization of troops in Russia and France that immediately got the Kaiser bent out of shape and before you know it "The War to End All Wars" began. (WWII apprently was an extension of the war to end all wars I guess).
In any event....in Barbara Tuchmann's book The Guns of August she mentions someone asked the German Chancellor how did WWI start? His reply was "Ach...if only we knew".
2006-10-18 12:56:56 · answer #4 · answered by Quasimodo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
While I feel that assassination is wrong it can occasionally be justified.
As far as "favourite" I would have to say that I do admire Charlotte Corday, who assassinated Marat in his bath.
Another who must be admired is however it was who assassinated Vlad Tepes--he was so successful that he got clean away with it and we don't know who it actually was.
2006-10-20 18:52:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
although I in no way condone assassination I'd say Carlos the Jackal, because he's got a cool name and they made a great movie about him - the Fred Zinnemann one not the crappy Bruce Willis one with loads of bonkers wigs
"Nameless, faceless...relentlessly moving towards the date with death that would rock the world "
2006-10-18 11:25:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lee Harvey Oswald because JFK was a nymphomaniac
2006-10-18 14:14:41 · answer #7 · answered by Conservative 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sqeaky Frumm for two reasons. 1) Her name is cool ! 2) She wasn't successful! I know, I cheated, but I happen to think killing people is bad.
2006-10-18 12:10:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is this a trick question?
A "favorite" assassin? Try rephrasing it - such as "Who do you think is/was the most successful..."
Mass murderers, i.e. Hitler, should not count.
2006-10-18 10:26:07 · answer #9 · answered by 34th B.G. - USAAF 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hitler. 55 million people died in World War II, a war he started. He's hard to beat.
2006-10-18 10:19:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋