- Remembrance Day for Rabin
- About Yitchak Rabin - mini project
- Assassination of Public Figures
- Project written by Jennifer Sternlicht.
In memory of Yitzchak Rabin and the ideals he stood for, this
lesson is dedicated to the investigation of the consequences of
political assassinations.
Each of the following political leaders were assassinated.
Assassins felt that by killing a leader they could stop political
beliefs from growing and thereby could change the course of
history.
Does a political assassination actually change the course of
history? Does it serve the ends of its perpetrators, or strengthen the
resolve of those who supported the victim's ideas to pursue his
humanitarian quest?
Choose one of the following political figures to study. Begin your
search with the suggested Internet sites.
Yitzchak Rabin: http://www.multied.com/Rabin2.html
Anwar Sadat: http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/sadat.
html
Indira Gandhi: http://www.cncw.com/india/indira.htm
Malcolm X: http://www.cmgww.com/historic/malcolm/
Mahatma Gandhi: http://www.mkgandhi.org/
John F. Kennedy: http://www.whitehouse.
gov/history/presidents/jk35.html
Julius Caesar: http://ancienthistory.about.
com/cs/caesar1/a/juliuscaesarwb.htm
Martin Luther King, Jr.: http://www.time.
com/time/time100/leaders/profile/king.html
Abraham Lincoln: http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln.
html and
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/index.html)
Focus your study on the following questions and try to answer as
many of them as possible:
- Write a one sentence description of who the leader was.
- What were his/her political beliefs?
- What was controversial about his/her political beliefs?
- In what direction was the country moving politically
before the assassination? - What were the political beliefs of the assassin?
- What was the motivation behind the assassination?
- Did the country's political view change after the
assassination? - What conclusions can you reach about assassination as a
political tool?
| © Ora Baumgarten 2008 |
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