2007-12-27 10:30:48 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Assassination is a political term.
2007-12-27 10:35:23 · answer #1 · answered by amazin'g 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It has more to do with the intent and status, not celebrity of the victim. In general, an assassination is a political or ideological killing. A "mob hit" by one gang against another, for example would still be termed a "murder" in the media.
As far as I recall, the only celebrity whose killing was termed an assassination in the popular media was John Lennon. I do recall there was a good bit of journalistic debate behind the scenes as to whether this was proper. Some argued that Lennon was a political figure, but others pointed out that his killing was related to his fame, not his politics.
2007-12-27 10:42:58 · answer #2 · answered by a_man_could_stand 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
assasination is a term used when a prominent person is murdered. it's still murder.
dallas m. better go read his history books, half of those people weren't assasinated.
2007-12-27 10:40:41 · answer #3 · answered by gen patton 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think if 2 million people or more knew of you, it is an assassination. (wild guess)
Medgar Evers was assassinated. He is the forerunner to MLK Jr.
"He fought for the enforcement of the 1954 court decision of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka which outlawed school segregation; he fought for the right to vote, and he advocated boycotting merchants who discriminated. He worked unceasingly despite the threats of violence that his speeches engendered. He gave much of himself to this struggle, and in 1963, he gave his life. On June 13, 1963, he drove home from a meeting, stepped out of his car, and was shot in the back"
http://gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/evers_m.htm
2007-12-27 10:34:25 · answer #4 · answered by Chi Guy 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wow! Now that's a new insight.
I guess that's why I frequent this site. Every once in a while streaks of intelligence are found.
2007-12-27 10:35:27 · answer #5 · answered by Stonewall 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lincoln, Abraham (president of U.S.)
Seward, William H. (secretary of state)
Garfield, James A. (president of U.S.)
McKinley, William (president of U.S.)
Roosevelt, Theodore (ex-president of U.S.)
Cermak, Anton J. (mayor of Chicago)
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (president-elect of U.S.)
Long, Huey P. (U.S. senator from Louisiana)
Truman, Harry S. (president of U.S.)
Kennedy, John F. (president of U.S.)
Malcolm X, also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (black activist)
King, Martin Luther, Jr. (civil rights leader)
Kennedy, Robert F. (U.S. senator from New York)
Wallace, George C. (governor of Alabama)
Ford, Gerald R. (president of U.S.)
Jordan, Vernon E., Jr. (civil rights leader)
Reagan, Ronald (president of U.S.)
Here is a list of US assassination in the last 150 years. It looks like you need to be at least as famous as famous as Vernon Jordan.
2007-12-27 10:39:12 · answer #6 · answered by Dallas M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't have to be famous to be martyred. An out spoken citizen could be martyred by his/her own government.
2007-12-27 10:42:42 · answer #7 · answered by Arcanum Noctis 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kennedy was assisinated Tupac was murdered.
2007-12-27 10:39:21 · answer #8 · answered by wyldfyr 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I will agree with someone above. If you are killed for being a political, religious, social or economic leader that is assassination.
2007-12-27 10:37:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
If you were a leader or a controversial political figure. Then your killing would be known as "assassination".
2007-12-27 10:39:53 · answer #10 · answered by cynical 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
assassination usually goes with someone being hired to do the killing versus the person doing the killing is the one who wants it done, that's murder.A hired assassin does your killing. You do not have to be famous to be assassinated, its more in the manor in which its done.
2007-12-27 10:38:45 · answer #11 · answered by igdubya 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋