Sword-Assasination on Live TV

In 1960 the leader of the Japanese Socialist Party Inejiro Asanuma was participating in a debate for an upcoming election when 17 year old Otoya Yamaguchi rushed the stage and impaled him on a yoroidoshi sword, killing him almost instantly. Yamaguchi was a militant nationalist, arrested immediately after and eventually killed himself in prison. The assassination was broadcast repeatedly after the incident and the socialist party dissolved shortly after.