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Jack6220 t1_jb4w2rx wrote

Is there any assassinations out of the US I can research for a project?

Just not up to my assassination lore lmao

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Wallo420 t1_jb6tkos wrote

Conrad de Monferat was assassinated by THE Assassins during the Crusdaes. In the original Assassins Creed you assassinate his father William de Monferat as a nod to this. If you’re doing a project, I’d recommend reading The Assassins by Bernard Lewis as they did a few throughout the period. Or you could just keep it simple and do Julius Ceasar :)

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Jack6220 t1_jb7rybo wrote

Lmao I was thinking like Rosa Luxemburg and the Spartacus revolution but I feel like everyone in my class would be too out of touch

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bangdazap t1_jb5cu7i wrote

The assassination of president John F Kennedy in 1963 is the one that has been written about the most. Lots of unsound conspiracy theories in particular. It's a commonly expressed view that his killing changed America, that he would've pulled out of Vietnam etc.

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Jack6220 t1_jb5ffv4 wrote

Out of the US?

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bangdazap t1_jb5s4ad wrote

Oh, I misunderstood, maybe Patrice Lumumba, the first elected leader of the independent Congo then?. They recently returned his remains (a single gold tooth) to Congo. After his death his body was dissolved in acid.

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OsoCheco t1_jb9p01h wrote

The assasination of Reinhard Heydrich, the only high ranking Nazi who got killed during the war.

There's plenty of documents about it, secondary effects and even some controversy (was it worth it?).

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phillipgoodrich t1_jbc8tjn wrote

Alexander II of Russia might be a timely choice that could expand the audience's awareness of Russian rule pre-revolution.

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pangs3798 t1_jbj8riq wrote

the assassination of Benigno Aquino III of Philippines which spark revolution and overthrew the dictatorship of the marcos regime

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jrhooo t1_jblvsm8 wrote

The Herhausen assassination.

A terror group assasinated a German banker in 1989.

The part of unique interest is the method. The banker travelled everywhere in a heavily armored car. So, they rigged up a IED.

They put a bicycle where his car was going to pass, filled a satchel on the bike with explosive, and rigged up an infrared laser as the trigger. When the bankers car passed through the laser … boom.

But the key point, the explosive didn’t kill the banker. The car would have possibly survived that.

They’d put a copper plate in front of the explosive charge, so when the explosive blew up, they turned the copper plate into a giant molten copper bullet, flying at (through) the banker’s car at hypersonic speed.

This technique, using an “explosively formed penetrator” is common in military weapons, like RPGs and anti-tank rockets,

But building one into an IED and using an infrared laser to activate it, these were breakthrough techniques in 1989. This may be the first time they’d been used.

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jrhooo t1_jblw9gn wrote

>assassinations out of the US

Wait wait wait, I hate to be terribly cliche here but

Is nobody going to say…

Franz Ferdinand?

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