Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Illustration by Achille Beltrame of the assassination of President William McKinley (1901) Assassination attempts and plots on the president of the United States have been numerous, ranging from the early 19th century to the present day. This article lists assassinations and assassination attempts on incumbent and former presidents and ...
On October 14, 1912, former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt by John Schrank, a former saloonkeeper, while campaigning for the presidency in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Schrank's bullet lodged in Roosevelt's chest after penetrating Roosevelt's steel eyeglass case and passing through a 50-page-thick (single-folded ...
Assassination attempts on a president-elect of the United States or a current or former president of the United States. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
What happened: In the span of just a few weeks, President Gerald Ford survived two assassination attempts. The first, in Sacramento, was by Lynette Fromme, a Charles Manson follower.
Roosevelt, at the time the president-elect, had just given a speech in Miami from the back of an open car when gunshots rang out. Roosevelt was not injured in the February 1933 shooting that ...
Here are all of the assassination attempts over the years. Abraham Lincoln The 16th president of the United States was killed in Washington, D.C. while watching a play with his wife in 1865.
Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency is a book written by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard about the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1981. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is the fifth in the Killing series, following Killing Lincoln , Killing Kennedy , Killing Jesus , and Killing Patton .
The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday is the latest example of our nation’s history of political violence aimed at those who have occupied the executive mansion.