Sam Cooke was killed by an LA motel manager -Bertha Franklin- in 1964. He was an early sporter of an Afro & supporter of Ali. Hoover had him under investigation as result & some still believe the FBI was involved. A coroner’s inquest was rather perfunctory.
I don’t know, would Chris Borden count? Maybe not since he willingly took a gun shot courtesy of a friend.
Marvin Gaye was shot by his dad. Don’t know if you’d call that an assassination.
Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol, but didn’t kill him.
Oh yeah, and there was some speculation that Bobby Fuller (of “I Fought the Law and the Law Won” fame) was killed in a Mob hit.
Part of Jelly Roll Morton’s legend is that someone killed him via Voodoo curse, but that’s a little far afield of “assassinations” as I understand the term.
Like Stephan King?
The Late Renaissance painter Caravaggio (1571-1610) was likely murdered.
Keep in mind, the “standard” I mentioned was the standard of bugshit crazy conspiracy theories. Last I heard, Bob Marley died of cancer, which is not something that is easily induced in another person without their co-operation.
However, doesn’t stop people from floating insane ideas about what “really” happened to ol’ Bob. First I heard of it was in an Introduction to African-American history class, where one student unexpectedly went off on a five minute spiel about how the CIA had him killed because he was bringing white people and black people together and ending racial disharmony all over the world. It was one of the wonderful moments where you could visibily see the professor struggling against her urge to tell the student exactly how dumb she was.
Well, one could also possibly include the death of Bob Crane in this list, as he WAS found bludgeoned to death, although the murder has never been solved.
Tupac was assassinated … or was he just shot?
I guess it depends on who shot him and why. Political or religious = assassinated; drug deal or jealous girlfriend = just shot.
spoke-correct about Fuller-doubt it was suicide. King Curtis (sax player) was murdered on the streets of NYC. Cornell Gunter-Coaster- murdered in Vegas. Gaye shot by father to protect his mother. Got probation after it was found Marvin’s pop had a brain tumor & was not dangerous-recall convicted of invol or vol manslaughter.
Just some more info on Bob Marley. He did die of brain cancer, but people are referring to an assassination attempt in 1976. It was a couple of days before a concert that was in support of Jamaica’s People’s National Party. Several people were hit, including Marley who took two bullets. There were the mandatory conspiracy theories about CIA involvment, but the shooting was almost certainly politically motivated. Obviously he survived and performed at the concert a few days later.