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Attacks that provoked tensions and affected the course of world history, including the assassinations of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and President John F. Kennedy.
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Watching1. From One Death, Many
In 1914, the shooting of a Serbian nationalist led to the First World War; in 1994 an aircraft carrying Rwanda's dictator and the leader of the Hutu was shot down.
2. Destroyer of Peace
Mahatma Gandhi is shot by a nationalist Hindu; civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr dies in an assassination attempt.
3. Clandestine Killers
Ahmad Shah Massoud warned of an attack by the Taliban; a Russian agent accuses Putin of murder.
4. Brainwashing
Explores how susceptible minds can be manipulated, transforming ordinary individuals into lethal assassins.
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