 The 1957 attempt to assassinate de Gaulle was very similar. De Gaulle was saved when the minute the assassin was pulling the trigger, de Gaulle dropped some metal. He's about to pin on the veteran and bends over and the bullet goes over his head. But the spooky part is the French Secret Service says, well, de Gaulle is exactly the same height as Trump, right? Let's hedge a bunch of exceptionally tall officers all around de Gaulle.