Plot hole: Senator Bunsen is introduced in the film as the President's Chief of Staff. As such, he would no longer be a sitting senator, and although he might be addressed as such, the newspaper lamenting his death would display his current title, not "Senator".
Assassination (1987)
1 plot hole
Directed by: Peter R. Hunt
Starring: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Jan Gan Boyd, Stephen Elliott
Plot hole: Senator Bunsen is introduced in the film as the President's Chief of Staff. As such, he would no longer be a sitting senator, and although he might be addressed as such, the newspaper lamenting his death would display his current title, not "Senator".