Questions tagged [assassination]
Attempt to murder a person by surprise attack. Usually referred to killing a politician.
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Did the clip in Oswald's rifle contain any ammunition? [closed]
Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy | 1964:
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Searching the sixth floor.
Deputy Sheriff Luke Mooney noticed a pile of cartons in the southeast ...
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What is this seal that looks like a bell?
The box on the top left of this picture is stamped with a seal that resembles a bell. Below is LOC photo of the replica of Oswald's gun.
The stamp is located in the top left.
LOC notes on the photo
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What is the historic validity of "Nothing is real; everything is permitted" as the Assassins' motto?
"Nothing is true; everything is permitted" - I find this phrase, popularized by the game Assassins' Creed, quite confusing even as historic fiction.
Historically, the Hassansins (a.k.a the ...
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Has a food taster ever thwarted an assassination attempt?
Important people have been known to employ food tasters to avoid assassination by poisoning. The linked Wikipedia article mentions that Claudius, Adolf Hitler, Barack Obama, and Vladimir Putin all ...
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Is Oskar Potiorek considered a suspect in the Archduke Ferdinand assassination? [closed]
I was looking just a tiny bit at the history leading up to the assassination generally blamed for the first World War. The data seem so surprising I just have to ask what I'm missing...
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Did Hadrian conspire to kill Trajan? [closed]
Some years ago I read a novel trilogy about Trajan's life and in the last book it shows the bad relationship Trajan had with Hadrian, and how Trajan was planning to designate as successor an African ...
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Was ever a poisoning prevented by the person accustoming themselves to poison beforehand (Mithridatism)?
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Mithridatism is the practice of protecting oneself against a poison by gradually self-administering non-lethal amounts. The word is derived from Mithridates VI, the King of Pontus, ...
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Did Russian government employ state-sponsored assassins under Russian Empire?
Did Russian government employ state-sponsored assassins under Russian Empire during 1800-1917?
I know, killings of many figures disliked by the Tsar were arranged in the forms of staged duels, but ...
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Was there ever a queen or female ruler who killed her child to preserve her power? [closed]
I vaguely remember hearing about a Queen who had her child killed (or attempted to) so that she could keep the throne. Thanks
To add extra details, I believe it was an infant who would be King once ...
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Why were (are) food tasters human? [closed]
In the TV series The Borgias, there were people who tasted food or drink for others (e.g., the Pope, the Queen, the King) just in case it would be poisoned. Looking this up on Wikipedia, I find that ...
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What were the other steps on the execution checklist during Neptune Spear aka the killing of Bin Laden
According to Wikipedia, capturing Bin Laden was step 7 on the execution checklist - what were the steps before? And were there any afterwards?
The words of the commander on the ground were, "For ...
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How did the world react to Trotsky's assassination?
Exiled former Russian leader Leon Trotsky was murdered in Mexico in August 1940 (with an ice pick) by a Soviet agent in the interest of Trotsky's old rival for power, the then Soviet dictator Stalin. ...
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Did Gavrilo Princip ever express regret for his actions during imprisonment? [closed]
After assassinating the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in June 1914; Gavrilo Princip spent just short of 4 years in Prison in Austria-Hungary before dying in April 1918 of tuberculosis. I was ...
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Was Martin Luther King's leadership conference Southern Christian or Southern Baptist?
Most sources refer to the civil rights organization Martin Luther King led as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), but some refer to it as the Southern Baptist Leadership Conference (...
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Has there ever been any assassination so that another assassination could happen during the first one's funeral?
I was reading a review of a book in the article Fascistas catalanes: pocos, pero al abrigo de los poderes (Catalan fascists: few, but with a shelter of the powers) and I found an interesting reference:...
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