Concept information
Preferred term
assassinations
Definition
- Assassination is an ambiguous concept when used to describe events or when it is employed in general analyses. Assassination is selective killing; it also refers to the intentional killing of a public figure. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Assassination]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- assassination of Alexander Litvinenko
- assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- assassination of Indira Gandhi
- assassination of James Garfield
- assassination of Jo Cox
- assassination of John F. Kennedy
- assassination of John Lennon
- assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
- assassination of Martin Luther King
- assassination of William McKinley
- Novichok poisonings
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/assassinations
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