How famous to u have to be to be assassinated????

Question

ok so u no if like a president gets shot its called assassination. well isn't the same as murder? so i was jw how famous u have to be to be assassinated

Answer 1

You do not have to be famous, all you need is to have lot's of enemies and that will do it.  

Answer 2

you have to have an effect on this world/in America to be considered "high profile." It is the same thing as murder, but assassination means you were targeted to get killed.

Answer 3

Lee Harvey Oswald got the wrong Kennedy brother.

Mary Jo Kopechne

Murdered by Ted Kennedy

Answer 4

You have to be murdered for political reasons, a senators wife bludgeoning him to death with a tire iron for catching the guy philandering would not be an assassination, it might even be considered justifiable homicide if it was coupled with abuse. The same senator being gunned down for proposing a free fire zone along the mexico border that might cut the drug trade, is an assassination.

John Lennon had his political convictions, was a public figure, but doesn't meet the classical definition of being assassinated, but is sometimes spoken of in that sense.