[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Forcing Kids To Watch History Made (WAS Where were you? (Dallas check-in))

[heiditandy]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cindy C. <cindysphinx at comcast.net> 
> 
> dradamsapple wrote:
> 
> > As I am also an ancient one, and the memory seems to be the first
> >to  go, was George Wallace actually assassinated?  

Cindy wrote: 
> I tossed around the word "assassinated" rather loosely there, didn't 
> I?  "Assassinated" does equate with murder, so I shouldn't have 
> phrased it that way.  Now that I think about it, though, I have no 
> idea what you call it when someone tries to kill a person for 
> political reasons but the victim survives.  "Attempted 
> assassination," I guess?  I always figured that would be what 
> happened to Gerald Ford -- firing and missing entirely.

Or Reagan. For an interesting look at assassination, as a concept, from
the perpetrator standpoint, I do recommend Sondheim's Assassins, which I
will eventually find a way to filk a song from, from a Tom Riddle & The
Death Eaters perspective. 

Hmmm. Barty Crouch as Squeaky Fromme, anyone?

heidi