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History is full of people who planned to take out powerful figures, only to fail in surprisingly clumsy ways. Some missed their targets, others had weapons malfunction, and a few were undone by simple bad luck. These failed attacks reveal how unpredictable assassination attempts could be, even when the stakes were enormous.
#1: Violet Gibson’s Second Shot Jammed Against Mussolini (1926)
Violet Gibson fired at Benito Mussolini in Rome in 1926, striking his nose instead of taking his life She tried again, but her pistol jammed. Mussolini survived and used the attack to reinforce the regime’s propaganda. Gibson was judged mentally ill, returned to Britain, and spent the rest of her life institutionalized.
