Days That Shook the World
Season 2, Episode 5: Conspiracy to Kill: The Real Day of the Jackal / Wolf's Lair
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22 August 1962 and 20 July 1944. Two assassination attempts that, if successful, might have changed the course of history: the Algerian Secret Army's attempt to shoot President de Gaulle of France and Colonel von Stauffenberg's planting of a bomb under Hitler's desk.
All Episodes - Season 2
Episode 1
Disaster in the Sky: The Hindenburg / Challenger Disaster
Episode 2
The Christmas Truce
Episode 3
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Episode 4
Grand Heist: The Theft of the Crown Jewels / The Great Train Robbery
Episode 5
Conspiracy to Kill: The Real Day of the Jackal / Wolf's Lair
Episode 6
Reach For The Stars: Trials of Galileo / Yuri Gagarin's Flight
Episode 7
Dinosaurs & Duplicity: Discovery of the First Dinosaur/Piltdown Man
Episode 8
Terrorism: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln/Oklahoma City Bombing
Episode 9
Cold War Spies: Gary Powers/Rudolf Abel
Episode 10
Affairs of the Crown: The Execution of Anne Boleyn/The Abdication of Edward VIII