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One of them was expected to "die at her post" by a bank executive. I wasn't a bank executive, it was the the social democratic prime minister Olof Palme. Duri
by zgluck 3y ago
One of them was expected to "die at her post" by a bank executive.
I wasn't a bank executive, it was the the social democratic prime minister Olof Palme.
During a phone call he asked one of the hostages: "wouldn′t it be nice to die at your post?"
https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/591659 https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/591659
(https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2021/03/the-murder-of-swedish-prime-minister-olof-palme/ https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2021/03/the-murder-of-swedish-prim...)
- meigwilym 3y agoThanks for the correction. I don't think I would have believed my memory even if I had remembered that fact correctly!
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- joncrane 3y agoWow, this adds some context to his assassination, which is still one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of our time.
- delecti 3y agoIf he was that big of a jackass, maybe his murder wasn't an assassination at all. Maybe someone was just fed up with his shit.
- philwelch 3y agoI think the murder of a prime minister is an assassination by definition.
- delecti 3y agoI think it depends. The two main definitions I'm seeing for "assassination" are either: any intentional murder (so basically any murder is an assassination), or specifically any politically motivated murder (so a jilted lover killing the president wouldn't be an assassination, but killing your local HOA president could be).
- philwelch 3y agoPeople seem to consistently refer to John Hinckley’s shooting of President Reagan as an “assassination attempt” despite the fact that Hinckley’s motive was a delusional belief that this would impress Jodie Foster. And we still don’t know the exact motive of the JFK assassination, though everyone has their theories.