Infamous Assassinations
Season 1, Episode 18: The Attempts on De Gaulle
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France, 1961: The Day of the Jackal There were three attempts to kill General de Gaulle, all of which were unsuccessful. The first was by German snipers in Paris 1945. The second was on 8 September 1961, when a plastic charge was fired at his car by a gang controlled by Raoul Salan. The third attempt was on 22nd August 1962, when his car was raked by machine-gun fire which shattered the rear window and burst two tyres. The General escaped all three attempts, but was there a fourth which was not reported?
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
The Assassination of Ernst Roehm
Episode 2
The attempt on Princess Anne
Episode 3
The Assassination of John Lennon
Episode 4
The Assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten
Episode 5
The Assassination of Trotsky
Episode 6
The Assassination of Pope John Paul II
Episode 7
The Assassination of Sikorski
Episode 8
The Assassination of President McKinley
Episode 9
The Assassination of Heydrich
Episode 10
The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Episode 11
The Assassination of Zia Al Huq
Episode 12
The Assassination of Verwoerd
Episode 13
The Assassinations of Indira & Rajiv Gandhi
Episode 14
The Assassination of Che Guevara
Episode 15
The Assassination of Anwar Sadat
Episode 16
The Attempt on Ronald Reagan
Episode 17
The Assassination of Michael Collins
Episode 18
The Attempts on De Gaulle
Episode 19
The Attempt on Hitler
Episode 20
The Assassination of Robert Kennedy
Episode 21
The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
Episode 22
The Assassination of Martin Luther King
Episode 23
The Assassination of Tsar Nicholas II
Episode 24
The Assassination of King Alexander
Episode 25
The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Episode 26
The Assassination of John F Kennedy