| Summary: | 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 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 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 ... On 9 October 1934, King Alexander of Yugoslavia arrived in the cruiser Dubrovnik for a State visit to France. A man later identified as Croatian nationalist Vlado Chernozemski jumped onto the running board of the royal car and opened fire with a Mauser pistol at point blank range, mortally wounding the King and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou and setting in motion a chain of events leading to World War II.
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