Editing Assassins (musical) (section)

=== Desiring attention ===
Many assassins in the musical have lines reflecting their need for attention, and according to Wang, "what unites each of the assassins is the desire for attention."<ref name=":42" /> In "How I Saved Roosevelt," Giuseppe Zangara is extremely angry about not having a photographer even at his execution: "and why there no photographers? For Zangara no photographers! Only capitalists get photographers!"<ref>{{Cite web|title=Stephen Sondheim – How I Saved Roosevelt|url=https://genius.com/Stephen-sondheim-how-i-saved-roosevelt-lyrics|website=Genius.com|access-date=2021-09-30}}</ref> Another assassin, [[Sara Jane Moore]], "proclaims that one of her motives was 'so that her friends would know where [she] was coming from.'"<ref name=":03" />

Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme and [[John Hinckley Jr.]] are described as a "loving couple" in the musical, but the love that they show is in order to try to draw attention from two different persons.<ref name=":12" /> Unlike some assassins such as Zangara whose goals might reflect many of the themes of the musical, these two assassins have only one motive - to get attention from the person they love (for Fromme, it is [[Charles Manson]]; for Hinckley, it is [[Jodie Foster]]).<ref name=":03" /> In the short monologue before the song "Unworthy of Your Love", Hinckley states that "[he] will win [Foster's] love, now and for all eternity."<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Stephen Sondheim – Unworthy of Your Love|url=https://genius.com/Stephen-sondheim-unworthy-of-your-love-lyrics|website=Genius.com|access-date=2021-09-27}}</ref>