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{{quote|''Ronnie Kray, one of the two Kray Twins who basically run organized crime in London, commits the murder he'll finally be sent away for when he walks into the Blind Beggar pub and shoots George Cornell in the head... Kray would manage to get away with this for three years by virtue of the fact that nobody was actually stupid enough to testify against a man who walked into pubs and shot people dead, this being [[Trigger Happy|a sort of tautological behavior]].''|[http://tardiseruditorum.blogspot.com/2011/03/ready-to-outsit-eternity-ark.html Philip Sandifer]}}
So there's the Evil Overlord sitting on his throne, when a figure in black suddenly appears looking like Death himself. He strikes a fatal blow and the crowd is so shocked (and/or the victim so [[
If the Target employs [[Swiss Cheese Security]], they deserve it.
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* ''[[The President's Analyst|The Presidents Analyst]]'' opens with a US spy knifing an Albanian double agent and dumping the body into a garment cart on a busy sidewalk on New York's 7th Avenue - note this is filmed ''on location'' and nobody gives it a second glance!
** [[Completely Missing the Point|Well yeah. They saw the cameras.]]
* Narrowly averted in the climactic scene of ''The Emperor and the Assassin''. The eponymous assassin chases the eponymous emperor Qin up and down his throne room, dagger in hand, in front of hundreds of courtiers. Emperor Qin finally fights off and kills the assassin all by himself after minutes of this, and then turns on his courtiers, supposedly his loyal supporters, and says "None of you did anything." It was one of the most brutally effective [[Despair Event Horizon|DespairEventHorizons]] ever filmed, as he realizes that he is now the sole ruler of all China, but that [[
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** Next was [[William McKinley]], who was shot while gladhanding the crowd at the Pan-American Exposition. One of his Secret Service bodyguards admitted at the trial that he may not have seen the assassin, Polish-American anarchist Leon Czogolsz, because he was distracted by the [[Scary Black Man]] standing behind him. (The crowd, including said [[Scary Black Man]], did attack Czogolsz, and McKinley, who knew he was dying, asked the Secret Service to stop them.)
** In the category of "attempted assassinations," [[Theodore Roosevelt]] was shot as he was about to make a speech -- which he went on to give. (See [[Pocket Protector]].) The speech -- the vast bulk of which is just ordinary campaigning -- is now often identified as "I Have Just Been Shot."
** [[John F. Kennedy]] was sort of shot in the middle of a parade. And Lee Harvey Oswald was sort of shot on national television.
** Finally, like McKinley, [[Ronald Reagan]] was shot by an apparent admirer among the crowd he was greeting. Again, the crowd and Secret Service attacked Hinckley (reacting very quickly in this case).
* Kawakami Gensai (the basis for [[Rurouni Kenshin|Himura Kenshin]]) assassinated Sakuma Shōzan in broad daylight.
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