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Old 12-27-2007, 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by x54.4blue
I really don't think ether Kennedy was killed by political opponents.
With the possible exception of Lincoln, I'm fairly sure that none of those were "political" assassinations(or attempts). All we're either insane, racially motivated(redundancy alert!), attempting to achieve fame(or infamy) or a combination of the above. Altho' Booth(IMO) was nuts too, his motives were political.

I'm sure that a case could be made that Malcolm X's assassination was political. While local and federal law enforcement officials stood aside and let it happen, IMO the main motive was the blood-feud within the Nation of Islam organization. You'd need to use a very loose definition to call that power struggle "political".

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