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Infamous Assassinations

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Get ready to witness the 20th Century's most damaging and outrageous assassination attempts, first-hand. From the assassination of John F Kennedy to the gunning down of Mahatma Gandhi, the tragic shooting of John Lennon to the brutal bombing of one of Hitler's henchmen, this series Infamous Assassinations brings you as close to the killers as the cameramen themselves - which sometimes means just a few feet. Using rare archive footage and reconstructions, each episode of this documentary series focuses on a different story, from attacks on royalty, politicians and guerrilla leaders to media personalities who all, for one reason or another, stepped in the way of an assassin determined to bring their life to an end. Many of their motives have remained shrouded in mystery. Until now...
  1. Infamous Assassinations: Part 1: Assassination of Ernst Roehm
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    Infamous Assassinations: Part 1: Assassination of Ernst Roehm

    Flying into Munich in the early hours of 20 June 20 1934, Adolf Hitler, then Chancellor of Germany, drove to a fashionable lakeside hotel, where one of his closest comrades from the earliest days of the Nazi Party was dragged from his bed and assassinated. Ernst Roehm, the feared leader of the Brown Shirts was dead.
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  2. Infamous Assassinations: Part 2: Attempt on Princess Anne
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    Infamous Assassinations: Part 2: Attempt on Princess Anne

    As the Queen's daughter travelled from Buckingham Palace along the Mall, she was attacked by a gunman who fired six shots at her vehicle. Several passers-by, her chauffeur, and a policemen were all seriously wounded as the gunman was eventually arrested by police reinforcements.
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  3. Infamous Assassinations: Part 3: Assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten
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    Infamous Assassinations: Part 3: Assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten

    The former Viceroy of India and cousin of the Queen, Lord Mountbatten was a World War II naval hero, Allied Commander in South East Asia and one of the architects of D-Day. On 27 August 27 1979, he was assassinated by a bomb planted on his boat by the IRA (Irish Republican Army) whilst he was on holiday with his family in in County Sligo, Ireland.
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  4. Infamous Assassinations: Part 4: Assassination of John Lennon
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    Infamous Assassinations: Part 4: Assassination of John Lennon

    On 8 December 1980, outside the Dakota Building, the 40-year-old Beatle was shot dead by Mark David Chapman, a young stalker who alleged that he was Lennon's 'double'. What were the psychological factors which drove Chapman to murder?
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  5. Infamous Assassinations: Part 5: Assassination of Leon Trotsky
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    Infamous Assassinations: Part 5: Assassination of Leon Trotsky

    On 20 August 1940, the exiled Bolshevik leader was assassinated with an ice-pick by Ramon Mercader, who was undoubtedly working on behalf of Stalin and his secret police. Why was it still necessary for Stalin to assassinate him?
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  6. Infamous Assassinations: Part 6: Attempt on Pope John Paul II
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    Infamous Assassinations: Part 6: Attempt on Pope John Paul II

    On 13 May 1981, in front of a crowd of 20,000 people in St Peter's Square, a young Turkish gunman shot the Polish Pope, possibly at the behest of the Russians who were concerned at the inspiration he was providing to Poland and the Solidarity Movement.
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  7. Infamous Assassinations: Part 7: Assassination of General Sikorski
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    Infamous Assassinations: Part 7: Assassination of General Sikorski

    On 4 July 1943, General Wladyslaw Eugeniusz Sikorski, Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Army, was flying to the Middle East on a Liberator bomber when it crashed into the sea off Gibraltar. He was very anti-Russian at the time and German propaganda claimed that he had fallen victim to the dirty tricks of the 'Allied Secret Service'.
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  8. Infamous Assassinations: Part 8: Assassination of President McKinley
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    Infamous Assassinations: Part 8: Assassination of President McKinley

    On 6 September 6 1901, whilst opening an expedition, President McKinley was shot by Polish anarchist, Leon Czolgosz. McKinley's successor, 42-year-old Teddy Roosevelt, was sworn in within 12 hours. McKinley was the third US president to be assassinated. How did his killer get so close?
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  9. Infamous Assassinations: Part 9: Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
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    Infamous Assassinations: Part 9: Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

    On the mornng of 10 June 10 1942, whilst driving his open-top Mercedes to his office, Hitler's effective deputy and architect of the Final Solution was blown to pieces by a bomb thrown by two Czechoslovakian agents parachuted in by the British Royal Air Force. Hitler exacted a terrible revenge on the village of Lidice.
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  10. Infamous Assassinations: Part 10: Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
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    Infamous Assassinations: Part 10: Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

    On 4 November 1995, as he was about to address a mass rally of his supporters celebrating the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Accord, one of Israel's greatest Prime Ministers was gunned down by a young Israeli opposed to his concept of 'Land for Peace'. The trial revealed shortcomings in the Israeli President's security arrangements.
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