The murder of a famous individual such as a religious leader, politician, famous celebrity or a royal is known as an assassination. Regardless of the reason that provoked the assassinations, they all ended in the death of a public figure known by all and in most cases loved by the general public which is the reason so much attention is brought to their death in the first place. In some cases, the assassinations have caused chaos and even triggered civil wars. Assassinations can be tracked back for as long as governments and tribes have existed and are not bound by borders of a specific country and spread all over the world in history. Most assassinations are backed by clear motives be it religious idealism, politics, jealousy or revenge. However
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They were used as a tool for political symbolism. They as well were used for creating chaos and unstability in a specific region or every countries. There even is an assassination that alone is thought to have triggered the World War I, i.e. the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, the duchess of Hohenberg, back in 1914. The event went on triggering small scale conflicts that later on became the platform for World War I. Even in World War II, the political assassinations were used as tools of war and the assassians for such assassinations would be specifically trained to carry out any such …show more content…
Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy. Since 1865 there have been a total of twenty assassinations and attempts on political leaders in USA alone, seven of whom were presidents at the time they were shot of which only two escaped the assassination attempts. The most famous assassination of all time was perhaps of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States who was assassinated on 22 November 1963 and pronounced dead at 1pm the same day at the age of 46. His assassination received the most vast media coverage and was indeed the most controversial assassination. His assassination was the most highlighed one in American
They were used as a tool for political symbolism. They as well were used for creating chaos and unstability in a specific region or every countries. There even is an assassination that alone is thought to have triggered the World War I, i.e. the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, the duchess of Hohenberg, back in 1914. The event went on triggering small scale conflicts that later on became the platform for World War I. Even in World War II, the political assassinations were used as tools of war and the assassians for such assassinations would be specifically trained to carry out any such …show more content…
Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy. Since 1865 there have been a total of twenty assassinations and attempts on political leaders in USA alone, seven of whom were presidents at the time they were shot of which only two escaped the assassination attempts. The most famous assassination of all time was perhaps of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States who was assassinated on 22 November 1963 and pronounced dead at 1pm the same day at the age of 46. His assassination received the most vast media coverage and was indeed the most controversial assassination. His assassination was the most highlighed one in American