[zgluck]

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...)

[joncrane]

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

[delecti]

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.

[philwelch]

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

[delecti]

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).

[philwelch]

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.

[meigwilym]

Thanks for the correction. I don't think I would have believed my memory even if I had remembered that fact correctly!