Posted in News The REAL Day of the Jackal: How crazed assassin came within inches of killing Charles de Gaulle in 1962 plot – as Eddie Redmayne stars in Sky adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s classic novel November 26, 2024 It sounds like the plot of The Day of the Jackal: an expert assassin coming within a hair’s breadth of killing French president Charles de Gaulle. But on August 22, 1962, that is exactly what happened. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14123843/Real-Day-Jackal-Frederick-Forsyth-Eddie-Redmayne.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490