Donald Trump is far from the first American politician whose life has been attempted. Today we will recall the most high-profile assassination attempts in the history of political life in the United States.
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Abraham Lincoln
The sixteenth president of the United States, one of the founders of the Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln, was fatally shot in the head on April 14, 1865 in a theater box in Washington. He was shot by the popular actor John Wilkes Booth, who considered the president’s orders unconstitutional.
It is assumed that at the same time the shooter said in Latin the phrase “Such is the fate of tyrants”, which is also attributed to Caesar’s murderer Brutus. After being wounded, Lincoln was moved from the theater to a house located opposite the cultural institution. The President died the next morning, on April 15.
Theodore Roosevelt
The next president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, also survived the assassination attempt. It happened on October 14, 1912, when he again wanted to take over the post of leader of the country. During a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he was shot by John Schrank with a .38-caliber revolver.
Contrary to the attacker’s hopes, the bullet pierced the eyeglass case and a 50-page copy of Roosevelt’s speech. All these things were in his inner jacket pocket. This did not stop Roosevelt, he continued his speech. While his blood was spreading on his shirt, he talked for an hour and a half. It later turned out that the bullet had pierced the pleura and it was dangerous to remove it. So Roosevelt carried such a reminder of this day in himself for the rest of his life. As for Schrank, he was declared insane.
John F. Kennedy
The story of the assassination of the 35th American President John F. Kennedy is shrouded in a number of conspiracy theories. However, the official version says: on November 22, 1963, he was fatally shot during a trip to Dallas, Texas. Former Marine Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy. Everything happened live when the politician and his wife were driving through the streets of the city in a car. Two days after the tragedy, Oswald was shot dead at the Dallas police station at the moment when he was taken out to be sent to a federal prison.
Richard Nixon
An assassination attempt was also made on the 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon. So, on February 22, 1974, a criminal with a gun broke into a plane departing for Atlanta and threatened to blow up the ship with passengers. He demanded that the pilots head towards the White House. The attacker claimed that he intended to kill President Nixon. Then a shootout broke out between the criminal and the FBI special forces. The result is that the attacker has been eliminated. A homemade bomb was also found in his briefcase.
Gerald Ford
The 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford, survived two attempts on his life. For example, Lynette Fromm, a member of Charles Manson’s terrorist gang, shot at him for the first time on September 5, 1975. It was in Sacramento, California. Fromm loaded the gun, but it misfired. The second attempt occurred on September 21 of the same year. Ford was leaving a hotel in Los Angeles when he was shot by leftist activist Sarah Jane Moore. The bullet flew a meter away from the president.
Ronald Reagan
An assassination attempt on the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, took place in Washington. On March 30, 1981, the Head of state spoke at the congress of the builders’ union at the Hilton Hotel, and after the end of the event went outside. He was shot by disc jockey John Hinckley – the bullet pierced his chest, and then passed one and a half centimeters from his heart and stuck in his lung. The White House press secretary, a Secret Service agent and a policeman were also injured. Later, the shooter Hinckley was declared insane, and he was sent for compulsory treatment.
George H.W. Bush
The next American president, George H.W. Bush, was able to avoid an assassination attempt after the expiration of his term. His car was supposed to explode during a visit to Kuwait. This was found out in April 1993 by the US intelligence services when they uncovered the conspiracy.
George W. Bush
George W. Bush, who became the 43rd American president, survived multiple assassination attempts. One of the attempts was made on May 10, 2005, during Bush’s speech at Freedom Square in Tbilisi. Then the Georgian threw a grenade towards the stage, but it did not explode. In March and June 2007, the special services of Colombia and Bulgaria, as well as the military prosecutor’s office of Jordan, reported on the available information about the assassination attempts on Bush Jr.
Barack Obama
The next president of the United States, Barack Obama, also became a target for assassination. So, one of the attempts occurred on November 11, 2011. That day, several shots were fired more than half a kilometer from the White House, after which the security forces found an abandoned car with a machine gun in it. Two bullets were found on the territory of the US president’s residence, one of them was stopped by a special window pane. At the time of the shooting, Obama was in California with his wife.
Donald Trump
The forty-seven American President Donald Trump experienced the first attempt on his life back in June 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Then Briton Michael Sandford stood with another crowd and listened to the leader’s speech. At one point, he tried to grab a police officer’s gun and shoot Trump.