From murder or suicide, these disturbing live deaths stunned millions of unsuspecting viewers.
FlickrThe shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald is view one of the first live deaths ever get on camera .
Note : Some pictures and videos in this post are in writing .
Whether it ’s the Japanese political leader fly the coop through with a samurai brand during a debate or the slapstick comedian who keeled over in front of an audience that thought it was just part of the routine , these are the murders , suicides , and other shocking death that were take in by unsuspicious camera and amazed television audiences around the world .
FlickrThe shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald is considered one of the first live deaths ever caught on camera.
Live Deaths: Inejiro Asanuma
Yasushi Nagao via nostri - imago / FlickrOtoya Yamaguchi assassinate Inejiro Asanuma in Tokyo . October 12 , 1960 .
During a televised debate take hold in Tokyo on October 12 , 1960 , right - flank nationalist Otoya Yamaguchi stabbed politician Inejiro Asanuma to destruction with a samurai sword right in front of the hearing .
The grampus , just 17 at the time , was part of a group that desire to take away both Western and communist influence from Japan and restore the country ’s traditional culture .
Yasushi Nagao via nostri-imago/FlickrOtoya Yamaguchi assassinates Inejiro Asanuma in Tokyo. 5 April 2025.
On these takings , Yamaguchi felt that Asanuma — the loss leader of the Japan Socialist Party who had praised communist China — was his enemy . So he decided to kill him and choose a close - scope weapon to exhibit his utter sentence , knowing full well that he would n’t get forth .
In his electric cell three week later , Yamaguchi wrote with toothpaste on his cell bulwark , “ Seven dwell for my state . Long live on His Imperial Majesty , the Emperor ! ” ( “ Seven lives ” was a mention to the last words of a 14th - one C samurai ) . He then hang himself from a swooning fixedness with a gin made of knotted bedsheets .
A Nipponese telecasting company show the debate for ulterior transmission , and or else of secreting it away , made it available to million of witness and leaving us all with a stalk record of one of account ’s unknown assassination .
