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The Best Episodes of Infamous Assassinations

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This brand-new and exclusive series takes a closer look at some of the world's most talked-about assassinations and near misses. Always a fascinating and macabre subject, assassinations can damage a nation's confidence, create wars and

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    Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 19 - The Attempt on Hitler
    8.1/10(7 votes)

    #1 - The Attempt on Hitler

    S1:E19

    Rastenburg, 1944 Although there had been two previous attempts to kill Hitler, including poisoning a bottle of Cointreau on his aircraft, the assassination attempt which nearly worked at his Prussian forest hideaway in Rastenburg resulted in the perpetrators being strangled with piano wire strung from meat hooks.

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  2. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 1 - The Assassination of Ernst Roehm
    8.0/10(8 votes)

    #2 - The Assassination of Ernst Roehm

    S1:E1

    Munich 1934: The Night of The Long Knives Flying into Munich in the early hours of 20th June 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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  3. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 9 - The Assassination of Heydrich
    7.3/10(9 votes)

    #3 - The Assassination of Heydrich

    S1:E9

    On the morning of 10th June 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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  4. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 16 - The Attempt on Ronald Reagan
    7.0/10(6 votes)

    #4 - The Attempt on Ronald Reagan

    S1:E16

    Washington, 1981 On 30th March 1981, as US President Ronald Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton Hotel, 25-year-old John Hinckley III fired six shots from a .22 revolver. One of the bullets missed Reagan''s heart by three inches. His famous quote to his wife was, "Honey, I forgot to duck". One of his top aides was not so fortunate.

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  5. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 21 - The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
    6.8/10(7 votes)

    #5 - The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi

    S1:E21

    New Delhi, 1948 India''s greatest founding father was a champion of peaceful protest, yet ironically he was gunned down for no clear reason by Nathuram Godse, a fanatical Hindu, in the gardens of Birla House on 30th January 1948 while Gandhi was on his way to attend a prayer meeting.

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  6. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 2 - The attempt on Princess Anne
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    #6 - The attempt on Princess Anne

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    London, 1974 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 chaffeur and a policemen were all seriously wounded as the gunman was eventually arrested by police reinforcements.

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  7. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 3 - The Assassination of John Lennon
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    #7 - The Assassination of John Lennon

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    New York, 1980 On 8th 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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  8. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 4 - The Assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten
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    #8 - The Assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten

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    Ireland, 1979 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 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 County Sligo, Ireland.

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  9. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 5 - The Assassination of Trotsky
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    #9 - The Assassination of Trotsky

    S1:E5

    Russia, 1940 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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  10. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 6 - The Assassination of Pope John Paul II
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    #10 - The Assassination of Pope John Paul II

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    Rome, 1981 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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  11. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 7 - The Assassination of Sikorski
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #11 - The Assassination of Sikorski

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    Gibraltar, 1943 On 4th 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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  12. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 8 - The Assassination of President McKinley
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    #12 - The Assassination of President McKinley

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    Buffalo, New York, 1901 On 6th September 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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  13. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 10 - The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #13 - The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

    S1:E10

    On 4th 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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  14. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 11 - The Assassination of Zia Al Huq
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #14 - The Assassination of Zia Al Huq

    S1:E11

    On August 17 1988, en route for a military base in Northern Pakistan, Pakistan's pro-military strongman was brought down by a bomb in his Hercules transport plane, possibly in retaliation for helping the rebels fight the Russians in Afghanistan. Was a Russian agent in the aircraft minutes before he took off?

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  15. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 12 - The Assassination of Verwoerd
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    #15 - The Assassination of Verwoerd

    S1:E12

    Cape Town, 1966 On 6 September 1966, seven minutes after taking his seat in the House of Assembly, South African Prime Minister Dr Henrick Verwoerd was assassinated by Demetrio Tsafendas, a Bible-quoting parliamentary messenger. Verwoerd had played a key role in constructing South Africa''s Apartheid laws, but ironically the assassin claimed he was not doing enough for whites. It was the second attempt on Verwoerd''s life.

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  16. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 13 - The Assassinations of Indira & Rajiv Gandhi
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    #16 - The Assassinations of Indira & Rajiv Gandhi

    S1:E13

    India, 1984 & 1989 Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, was assassinated on 31st October 1984 by her Sikh bodyguards as she walked in the garden of her New Delhi home. It appeared that her murder was an act of revenge for her orders to storm the Sikh''s holiest shrine at Amritstar in 1983. Six years later, on 21st May 1991 in Sriperumbudur, near Madras, her eldest son Rajiv was also assassinated by Khan separatists in a bomb explosion.

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  17. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 14 - The Assassination of Che Guevara
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    #17 - The Assassination of Che Guevara

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    Bolivia, 1967 Born to a middle-class Argentine family, Ernesto ''Che'' Guevara became an icon for revolution and rebellious youth all over the world. One of Fidel Castro''s most trusted lieutenants in the Cuban revolution, he left to become a guerilla leader fermenting uprisings against other South American dictatorships. Captured in Bolivia on 8 October 1967, he was assassinated by a CIA-inspired killer.

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  18. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 15 - The Assassination of Anwar Sadat
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    #18 - The Assassination of Anwar Sadat

    S1:E15

    Cairo, 1981 On 6 October 1981, wearing a black ceremonial uniform at a military parade, the Egyptian President was shot down by four uniformed men who machine-gunned him as he was watching an Egyptian Air Force fly-past. The conspirators killed five people, including foreign envoys attending the parade, and the entire assassination was recorded on film.

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  19. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 17 - The Assassination of Michael Collins
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    #19 - The Assassination of Michael Collins

    S1:E17

    Eire, 1922 One of the most charismatic leaders in the struggle for Irish independence from British rule, Michael Collins came to realise that only compromise could secure southern Ireland''s independence and peace. Many of his former colleagues disagreed and, on 22nd August 1922, a newly-independent Eire lapsed into civil war, Collins was gunned down in an ambush.

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  20. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 18 - The Attempts on De Gaulle
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    #20 - The Attempts on De Gaulle

    S1:E18

    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?

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  21. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 20 - The Assassination of Robert Kennedy
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    #21 - The Assassination of Robert Kennedy

    S1:E20

    Los Angeles, 1968 On 6th June 1968, hours after winning the Californian Democratic Primary election, Senator Robert Kennedy was shot and fatally wounded. The assassin was 24-year-old Palestinian immigrant, Sirhan Sirhan, who fired five shots before he was siezed. However, Robert Kennedy had many enemies and more than one assassin may have been involved.

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  22. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 22 - The Assassination of Martin Luther King
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    #22 - The Assassination of Martin Luther King

    S1:E22

    Memphis, 1968 After leading mass protests in Birmingham Alabama and his "I have a dream" speech, Martin Luther King took on the causes of American withdrawal from South Vietnam and the plight of the poor in America''s South. On 4th April 1968, he was shot dead by a mysterious white assassin, who escaped in a white Mustang car. James Earl Ray was imprisoned for life for the killing, but was he guilty?

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  23. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 23 - The Assassination of Tsar Nicholas II
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    #23 - The Assassination of Tsar Nicholas II

    S1:E23

    Yekaterinburg, 1918 After a disastrous war with Germany, the Bolsheviks imprisoned the Romanov family as their supporters approached. Factory worker guards were replaced by Cheka executioners and on 17th July 1918, the family were murdered and buried in a nearby wood. For more than 70 years their whereabouts was unknown but new material released from Russia now conclusively reveals their fate.

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  24. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 24 - The Assassination of King Alexander
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    #24 - The Assassination of King Alexander

    S1:E24

    Marseille, 1934 On 9th October 1934, just after King Alexander of Yugoslavia had arrived in the cruiser Dubrovnik for a State visit to France, a man later identified as Croatian nationalist Petros Kellerman jumped onto the running board of the King''s car and opened fire with a Mauser pistol at point blank range. In the confusion, the chauffeur was wounded by a Royal escort and the King accidentally bled to death in his car because his aides failed to apply a tourniquet

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  25. Infamous Assassinations Season 1 Episode 25 - The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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    #25 - The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    S1:E25

    Sarajevo, 1914 A group of Serbian nationalists were determined to kill the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Two of the assassins had bombs and one, a student named Gavril Princep, had a pistol. When the bombs failed, the Archduke''s car took another route and almost stopped outside the cafι where Princep was sitting. Within seconds, the Archduke and his wife were mortally wounded. The events of that day on Sunday 28th June led to the outbreak of World War I.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Attempt on Hitler" is the best rated episode of "Infamous Assassinations". It scored 8.1/10 based on 7 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/23/2012. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Assassination of Ernst Roehm".