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S1.E1 ∙ The Assassination of Ernst Roehm - Munich, 1934

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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S1.E2 ∙ The Attempted Assassination of Princess Anne - London, 1974

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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S1.E3 ∙ The Assassination of Lord Mountbatten - Mullaghmore, Ireland 1979

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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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S1.E4 ∙ The Assassination of John Lennon - New York, 1980

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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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S1.E5 ∙ The Assassination of Leon Trotsky - Mexico City, 1940

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

On 20 August 1940, the exiled Bolshevik leader was assassinated with an ice-pick by Ramon Mercader, who was working on behalf of Stalin and his secret police. Why was it still necessary for Stalin to assassinate him?

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S1.E6 ∙ The Attempted Assassination of Pope John Paul II - Rome, 1981

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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S1.E7 ∙ The Assassination of General Sikorski - Gibraltar, 1944

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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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S1.E8 ∙ The Assassination of President McKinley - Buffalo, New York, 1901

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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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S1.E9 ∙ The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich - Prague, 1942

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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S1.E10 ∙ The Assassination of Yitzak Rabin - Tel Aviv, 1995

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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S1.E11 ∙ The Assassination of Zia Ul Haq - Bahawalpur, Pakistan, 1987

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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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S1.E12 ∙ The Assassination of Dr Hendrik Verwoerd - Cape Town, 1966

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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S1.E13 ∙ The Assassinations of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi - New Delhi, 1984 / Sriperumbudur, 1989

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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S1.E14 ∙ The Assassination of Che Guevara - Bolivia, 1967

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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S1.E15 ∙ The Assassination of Anwar Sadat: Cairo, 1981

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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S1.E16 ∙ The Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan - Washington, 1981

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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S1.E17 ∙ The Assassination of Michael Collins - County Cork, 1922

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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S1.E18 ∙ The Attempted Assassination of General de Gaulle - Paris, 1961

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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S1.E19 ∙ The Attempted Assassination of Adolf Hitler - Rastenburg, 1944

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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S1.E20 ∙ The Assassination of Robert F Kennedy - Los Angeles, 1968

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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S1.E21 ∙ The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi - New Delhi, 1948

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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 30 January 1948 while Gandhi was on his way to attend a prayer meeting.

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