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    How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?

    Question #34180. Asked by PUZZLER. (May 22 03 5:32 PM)


    Sean

    		http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=assassinate and r=2

    An assassination is just a planned murder, it doesn't have to be a important person
    anyways,
    how exactly do you measure the importance of something or someone?

    May 22 03, 5:57 PM
    Andy

    		The term 'assassination' is strictly reserved for political figures. For example, a governor, Senator, mayor, President, etc. is assassinated (Ex. JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.) However, anyone else would be murdered- (Phil Hatman was murdered).

    May 22 03, 9:43 PM
    Baloo55th

    		As a leader of the Civil Rights movement, King was a political figure. You don't have to be elected to government or local office to be a 'political figure'. Other examples of 'non-elected' political figures could include Gandhi, Mandela, Rasputin, Chandra Bose and many others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. etc

    Aug 06 08, 2:48 PM

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