Famous Assassins Survivor - THE FINAL - KUBIŠ IS THE SURVIVOR

[minionofmidas]

Why include two separate attempts on Rasputin?
I'd never known the name of the individual who actually assassinated Alexander II, though just like Princip he was part of a larger plot. I am very much aware of two other members of the group though - Aleksandr Ulyanov, brother of Vladimir; and Vera Figner.

Further candidates for inclusion:
The guy who tried to assassinate President-elect Franklin Roosevelt and hit the mayor of Chicago instead.
The anarchist who killed Romy Schneider (not that Romy Schneider, the other Romy Schneider).
The one who killed Umberto I of Italy
Udham Singh, avenger of the Jalianwalla Bagh Massacre
Simón Radowitzky. Merely assassinated the Police President of Buenos Aires, but survived to tell the tale and become a cause celebre for decades (he got a life term).
And assassins who became actual politicians: Buenaventura Durruti, rumored assassin of the Cardinal Archbishop of Zaragoza, rumored attempted assassin of the king of Spain.
And Erich Mielke.

[minionofmidas]

The IRA plot on Maggie Thatcher would still qualify. Actually, most ETA acts also aim at individuals.

[minionofmidas]

The assassin of Tsar Alexander stands in the English Wikipedia, but i can delete him, because he wasn't very famous

But the deed was. And very important. It should be in. Maybe make it a group entry like with Indira's bodyguards.

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Important enough to have a district named for him! Also a very interesting story. I want him in.

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Jewish boy from Kiev who was involved in the 1905 revolution as a teenager, fled to Argentina after that - where there were similar struggles between anarchist workers and heavily armed police willing to use their guns. Assassinated (threw a bomb into his car) the man directly responsible. Was given life without parole rather than a death sentence because he was not yet 21, a condition under Argentinian law at the time. Was a hero to the country's anarchists, though. Especially after it leaked out that the director of the prison had anally raped him (I'm not making this up). Pardoned in the early 30s but deported out of Argentina at the same time. Went on to fight in the Spanish Civil War and then to several decades of broken-down retirement in Ciudad de Mexico. That's all I remember off the top of my head.

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Alright, I can live with that.

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Important perhaps not, but it was very much a political assassination. They didn't just shoot two random cops, but a specific target. (I'd need to read up a little on details before saying anything wrong here.)

[minionofmidas]

And the guy who killed Anna Lindh.
We still don't know who killed Olof Palme, do we?

[minionofmidas]

Arco-Valley

[minionofmidas]

Arco-Valley

[minionofmidas]

Never heard of him before, but interesting story.

[minionofmidas]

Arco

[minionofmidas]

John Wilkes Booth

[minionofmidas]

Sirhan Sirhan

James Earl Ray was *probably* innocent, you know.

[minionofmidas]

Charles J Guiteau

[minionofmidas]

Ramón Mercader

[minionofmidas]

Mercader

[minionofmidas]

Mercader.

Did anyone else on here bludgeon a retiree to death?

[minionofmidas]

Squeaky Fromme, just on account of the name.

[minionofmidas]

Erich Mielke

[minionofmidas]

No prob, I'm ready to repost it: Erich Mielke.

[minionofmidas]

José de León Toral

*we got the arm, the arm of Obregón...*

[minionofmidas]

Bastien-Thiry !

I'm sure some of us see first "de Gaulle" and not "OAS-Algérie française"....

Yep - I never googled the story behind it, so I stand convicted on not knowing what that particular assassination attempt was all about, and might have voted to oust him once Mercader was out.

Although my vote this round was mostly motivated by the fact that I didn't want to break the tie.

[minionofmidas]

Squeaky

[minionofmidas]

Jack Ruby, the biggest sleaze in town.

[minionofmidas]

No, Jack Ruby ought to go first. Killing an arrestee is worse in my book than killing a powerful man. No matter the motives.

Ruby.

[minionofmidas]

Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey, the tv proved he did.

Jacob Rubenstein.

[minionofmidas]

de Leon Toral

[minionofmidas]

Dan WHite. Twinkies made him do it.