Infamous Assassinations - Season 1 Episode 18 The Attempts on De Gaulle
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?
First Air Date: Jul 09, 2012
Last Air date: Jul 30, 2012
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 26 Episode
Runtime: 30 minutes
IMDb: 8.25/10 by 4.00 users
Popularity: 0.247
Language: English
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The Assassination of Ernst Roehm
The attempt on Princess Anne
The Assassination of John Lennon
The Assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten
The Assassination of Trotsky
The Assassination of Pope John Paul II
The Assassination of Sikorski
The Assassination of President McKinley
The Assassination of Heydrich
The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
The Assassination of Zia Al Huq
The Assassination of Verwoerd
The Assassinations of Indira & Rajiv Gandhi
The Assassination of Che Guevara
The Assassination of Anwar Sadat
The Attempt on Ronald Reagan
The Assassination of Michael Collins
The Attempts on De Gaulle
The Attempt on Hitler
The Assassination of Robert Kennedy
The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
The Assassination of Martin Luther King
The Assassination of Tsar Nicholas II
The Assassination of King Alexander
The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Assassination of John F Kennedy