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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.

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://blogs.loc.gov/law/2021/03/the-murder-of-swedish-prim...)

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Wow, this adds some context to his assassination, which is still one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of our time.

If 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.

I think the murder of a prime minister is an assassination by definition.

I 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).

People 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.

Thanks 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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