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Today I Found Out: Season 2019

2019x150 That Time a Teenager Nearly Assassinated the Queen During a Fantasy Assassination of the Queen

  • 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 5m
  • United States
  • Documentary, Special Interest
In this video: The Queen is likely one of the single best protected people on the entire planet. But on June 13, 1981 a 17 year old young man who held a marksman’s badge from the Air Training Corps somehow managed to circumvent the endless layers of security put in place to protect the Queen and fired a revolver at her from about 10 feet or 3 meters away. In the process, he managed to get not just one shot off, but a half a dozen, completely emptying his gun. So how is the queen still alive today? Well, thanks to strict gun laws in the UK, the young man, one Marcus Sarjeant, could only get his hands on a gun that shot blanks…
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