BBC Infamous Assassinations 1-26

Infamous Assassinations is a 2007 British documentary television series about high-profile murders and attempted murders of public figures.

== Episode 1: [[Ernst Roehm]] ==
On 1 July 1934 in [[Munich]], the [[Sturmabteilung|SA]] leader Roehm was killed on [[Adolf Hitler]]'s orders, shortly after many other [[Nazi]]s were also killed on Hitler's orders, on what became known as the [[Night of the Long Knives]]. Hitler ordered the killings to prevent any rivals within his party from gaining more power than he was comfortable with.

== Episode 2: [[Che Guevara]] ==
On 9 October 1967 in [[La Higuera]], [[Bolivia]], Argentine [[communist]] [[guerrilla]] leader Guevara was shot dead by the Bolivian army.

== Episode 3: [[Anne, Princess Royal|Princess Anne]] ==
On 20 March 1974 in central [[London]], a gunman attempted to kidnap [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|The Queen]]'s daughter, believing he could receive a multi-million pound ransom by doing so.

== Episode 4: [[Anwar El Sadat|Anwar Sadat]] ==
On 6 October 1981 in [[Cairo]], Egyptian President Sadat was shot dead by Islamic extremist soldiers.

== Episode 5: [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma|Lord Mountbatten]] ==
On 27 August 1979 in [[County Sligo]], Republic of Ireland, Prince Philip's uncle Louis Mountbatten was killed by an [[Irish Republican Army|IRA]] bomb.

== Episode 6: [[Ronald Reagan]] ==
On 30 March 1981 in [[Washington D.C.]], [[John Hinckley, Jr.]] shot US President Reagan, wrongly believing that doing so would make actress [[Jodie Foster]] love him.

== Episode 7: [[John Lennon]] ==
On 8 December 1980, in [[New York City]], [[Mark David Chapman]] shot dead pop star Lennon. His motive was that he felt Lennon was a hypocrite for espousing universal brotherhood, whilst at the same time being a multi-millionaire enjoying a lavish lifestyle far beyond the reach of the large majority of people.

== Episode 8: [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]] ==
On 22 August 1922 in [[County Cork]], [[Ireland]], Irish nationalist leader who fought for [[Irish independence]] was shot dead by Anti treaty [[Anglo-Irish treaty]] [[ Irish Republican Army|IRA]] gunmen as they believe he betrayed the Irish Republic.

== Episode 9: [[Leon Trotsky]] ==
On 21 August 1940 in [[Mexico City]], Bolshevik leader Trotsky was killed with an ice pick by [[Ramón Mercader]], on the orders of [[Joseph Stalin]].

== Episode 10: [[Charles de Gaulle]] ==
Attempts to kill French President de Gaulle.

== Episode 11: [[Pope John Paul II]] ==
On 13 May 1981 in [[Vatican City]], Turkish nationalist [[Mehmet Ali Ağca]] shot the Pope for reasons that still remain unclear and disputed.

== Episode 12: [[Adolf Hitler]] ==
On 20 July 1944 in [[Rastenburg]], [[Germany]], [[20 July plot|a bomb was planted]] with the intention of killing the Nazi dictator, but he was only slightly injured. Hitler had many people involved in the plot killed soon after.

== Episode 13: [[Wladyslaw Sikorski]] ==
On 4 July 1943 in [[Gibraltar]], Polish leader Sikorski was killed when the plane he was travelling in crashed. Although the crash was declared to be an accident, that ruling is disputed.

== Episode 14: [[Robert F. Kennedy]] ==
On 5 June 1968 in [[Los Angeles]], [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] immigrant [[Sirhan Sirhan]] shot Senator Kennedy, who died from his wounds the following day.

== Episode 15: [[William McKinley]] ==
On 6 September 1901 in [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]], [[New York]], Polish-American anarchist [[Leon Czolgosz]] shot US President McKinley, who died as a result 8 days later.

== Episode 16: [[Mahatma Gandhi]] ==
On 30 January 1948 in [[Delhi]], [[India]], Gandhi was shot dead by [[Nathuram Godse]].

== Episode 17: [[Reinhard Heydrich]] ==
On 27 May 1942 in [[Prague]], [[Czechoslovakia]], SS General Heydrich was killed by a grenade thrown by Czech resistance fighters [[Jan Kubiš]] and [[Jozef Gabcik]]. Heydrich died of his injuries on 4 June 1942.

== Episode 18: [[Martin Luther King]] ==
On 4 April 1968 in [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]], [[Tennessee]], black civil rights leader King was shot dead by [[James Earl Ray]], an escaped convict.

== Episode 19: [[Yitzhak Rabin]] ==
On 4 November 1995 in [[Tel Aviv]], [[Israel]], Israeli Prime Minister Rabin was shot dead by right-wing Israeli Jew [[Yigal Amir]]. Amir considered Rabin to be a traitor for doing deals with the Palestinians.

== Episode 20: [[Tsar Nicholas II]] ==
On 17 July 1918 in [[Ekaterinburg]], [[Russia]], Bolsheviks shot dead the tsar, his wife, and their five children; then buried them in a wood.

== Episode 21: [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]] ==
On 17 August 1988 in [[Pakistan]], Pakistani President Zia-ul-Haq died in a plane crash, along with the US Ambassador and several high-ranking military officials. It was ruled an accident, but there are many [[conspiracy theories about the death of Zia-ul-Haq]].

== Episode 22: [[Alexander I of Yugoslavia]] ==
On 9 October 1934 in [[Marseille]], [[France]], Yugoslav King Alexander was shot dead by [[Vlado Chernozemski]], a Croatian nationalist.
The episode seriously lacks factual accuracy in multiple occasions, e.g. claiming that Bulgaria was a Muslim country etc. and speaker seriously mispronounces most of the names and titles.

== Episode 23: [[Hendrik Verwoerd]] ==
On 6 September 1966 in [[Cape Town]], [[South Africa]], South African Prime Minister Verwoerd was stabbed to death by [[Dimitri Tsafendas]].

== Episode 24: [[Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria|Franz Ferdinand]] ==
On 28 June 1914 in [[Sarajevo]], Austrian Archduke Ferdinand was shot dead by Serb nationalist [[Gavrilo Princip]].

== Episode 25: [[Indira Gandhi]] and [[Rajiv Gandhi]] ==
On 31 October 1984 in [[New Delhi]], Indian Prime Minister I. Gandhi was shot dead by her [[Sikh]] bodyguards. Almost 7 years later, her son R. Gandhi was killed by a [[Tamil people|Tamil]] suicide bomber.

== Episode 26: [[John F. Kennedy]] ==
On 22 November 1963 in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]], US President Kennedy was shot dead by [[Lee Harvey Oswald]].