Western Michigan University ScholarWorks at WMU Master's Theses Graduate College 12-1993 Assassination in Modern America: Political Participation through a Gun Barrel? Richard Grossenbacher Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses Part of the Criminology Commons, Political Science Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Grossenbacher, Richard, "Assassination in Modern America: Political Participation through a Gun Barrel?" (1993). Master's Theses. 783. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/783 This Masters Thesis-Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate College at ScholarWorks at WMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at WMU. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. ASSASSINATION IN MODERN AMERICA: POLITICAL PARTICIPATION THROUGH A GUN BARREL? by Richard Grossenbacher A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of The Graduate College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Department of Political Science Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan December 1993 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ASSASSINATION IN MODERN AMERICA: POLITICAL PARTICIPATION THROUGH A GUN BARREL? Richard Grossenbacher, M.A. Western Michigan University, 1993 Assassination has been a constant companion of the world’s societies from the beginning of recorded history. Only relatively recently have social scientists begun empirical study of these acts in an effort to reveal any commonalties and possible predictive traits. Investigation of the assassination phenomenon assumed a special urgency in America as violence seemed to escalate in the 1960s, which resulted in some notable research.