That's what a dozen assassins attempted in 1962 against Charles De Gaulle. 187 shots fired. 14 hit De Gaulle's vehicle.
Total dead - zero.
Total injuries - a random bystander was lightly wounded and Madame De Gaulle got a small cut on her hand brushing broken glass off.
Some of the Conspirators were caught. One talked. Ten were arrested. Six fled the country and were tried in absentia. One committed suicide, one was executed, the other 14 were sentenced to death or long prison terms.
This was a total failure at both getting away and getting the target. Yet the Conspiracy not only thinks this is a great idea to copy, they try to frame a lone gunman, which requires dozens more to be in on the Conspiracy to fake evidence.
Total dead - zero.
Total injuries - a random bystander was lightly wounded and Madame De Gaulle got a small cut on her hand brushing broken glass off.
Some of the Conspirators were caught. One talked. Ten were arrested. Six fled the country and were tried in absentia. One committed suicide, one was executed, the other 14 were sentenced to death or long prison terms.
This was a total failure at both getting away and getting the target. Yet the Conspiracy not only thinks this is a great idea to copy, they try to frame a lone gunman, which requires dozens more to be in on the Conspiracy to fake evidence.
However for the benefit of our assassination gurus, here are a couple of kidnap/assassinations which very much imitated the de Gaulle attempt. The 1978 kidnap in Rome of former premier Aldo Moro was in many ways a carbon copy. It involved four cars, two for the ambush, and around 11 attackers. The difference was in lethal efficiency. All 5 security officers (in two cars) were killed whilst Moro was kidnapped uninjured. Of the 91 shots fired, 45 hit their intended target. Moro was, as many of us will remember, executed by his kidnappers, the Red Brigades, after 55 days.
A year earlier Hans Martin Schleyer, spokesman for West German industrialists, had been kidnapped in similar fashion by the Red Army Faction (often dubbed the Baader-Meinhof gang) when driving through Cologne. The victim's car was blocked in similar fashion. This time there were believed to be a mere 5 attackers assisted by a female member as decoy. Again the target was kidnapped uninjured and it seems his attackers drove off in a single van. As in the Moro kidnapping, the 4 security personnel (in two cars) were killed on the spot this time by a fusillade of 20 shots. Schleyer was executed after 43 days in captivity.
So lets not compare oranges with apples. First of all, no one has ever claimed mobile cars were used to shoot JFK. And secondly, and more importantly, the de Gaulle assassination failed while the JFK, Moro and Schleyer actions succeeded to lethal effect. Our JFK assassination gurus' wise saws might have been welcomed by the de Gaulle conspirators, but are hardly needed by the others.
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