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The Jackal is a fictional character, the principal antagonist of the novel The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth.He is an assassin who is contracted by the OAS French terrorist group of the early 1960s to kill Charles de Gaulle, then President of France.
The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 political thriller film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox and Michael Lonsdale.Based on the 1971 novel by Frederick Forsyth, the film is about a professional assassin known only as the "Jackal" who is hired to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle in the summer of 1963.
The Day of the Jackal (1971) is a political thriller novel by English author Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organisation, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.
Bastien-Thiry was a former French Air Force lieutenant colonel who did try to kill de Gaulle. Per NBC , “Bastien-Thiry recruited a group of three shooters and met them in Petit-Clamart, a suburb ...
The Day of the Jackal wrapped up an explosive freshman season with a nail-bitingly tense finale this week — and it set the stage for Season 2, too. The finale picks up at full speed, with ...
Planned by colonel and missile engineer Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry (acting as a lookout) on a route taking de Gaulle to Villacoublay airport, the plot's members fired over one-hundred-and-eighty shots with automatic weapons. Fourteen hit de Gaulle's Citroen DS. A bullet from Watin's machine pistol entered the rear windscreen and missed de Gaulle ...
Bastien-Thiry attempted to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle on 22 August 1962 in retaliation for de Gaulle's decision to accept Algerian independence. Bastien-Thiry was the last person to be executed by firing squad in France. Although the assassination attempt nearly claimed de Gaulle's life, he and his entire entourage escaped ...
The OAS features prominently in the 1971 novel The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth, and its film adaptation. The story deals primarily with a fictional assassination plot against Charles de Gaulle, where the organisation hires a British contract killer (the Jackal) to kill de Gaulle. Bastien-Thiry and the Petit-Clamart plot figure ...