Charles De Gaulle's Failed Assassination
How did De Gaulle escape his death?
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71 mins
Explore how Charles de Gaulle narrowly escaped a deadly ambush in 1962, when gunmen unleashed a barrage of bullets on his moving car. Uncover how precision driving, luck, and timing turned a near-certain assassination into a shocking survival.
Ep 1:
Dallas Echoes in the Élysée
As France mourns with America, de Gaulle privately declares Kennedy's death a coup by his own security forces—drawing on his own thirty-one brushes with assassination and the fall of France in 1940.
Ep 2:
From Exile to the Champs-Élysées
From a defiant exile in London to the liberated streets of Paris, de Gaulle transforms defeat into myth, then returns from the wilderness to seize power amid Algeria's brutal civil war.
Discussions (5)
Marc
Level 6 · 4 mo agoI think you guys are giving de Gaulle way too much credit here. He had a massive ego and probably just projected his own political drama onto JFK.
Zachariah
Level 8 · 4 mo agoFidel Castro survived way more attempts than De Gaulle.
Joyce
Level 5 · 4 mo agoDe Gaulle's take on Dallas is just arrogant projection. Just because his own security forces hated him does not mean the CIA took out Kennedy.
