A Study of Assassination: The "Accident" in History

FAIN: RO-11989-73

President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)
Franklin L. Ford (Project Director: January 1974 to present)

To survey the forms, motives, results and incidence over time of numerous selected assassinations from classical antiquity to the present. Legal distinctions between assassination and execution, as well as ethical distincitions between assassination and murder will be explored.