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President James A. Garfield with James G. Blaine after being shot by Charles J. Guiteau. The assassination of James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, took place at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., at 9:20 AM on Saturday, July 2, 1881, less than four months after he took office.
Richard Lawrence (c. 1800 – June 13, 1861) was an English-born American house painter who was the first known person to attempt the assassination of a sitting president of the United States. Lawrence attempted to shoot President Andrew Jackson outside the United States Capitol on January 30, 1835, however both of his pistols misfired and he ...
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.
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 ...
The former president began with a somber tone but his message of grievance remained the same. ... Trump shares ‘painful’ story of assassination attempt in mammoth RNC speech.
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.
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 ...
Richard Paul Pavlick (February 13, 1887 – November 11, 1975) was a retired postal worker [1] from New Hampshire who stalked Senator and U.S. president-elect John F. Kennedy, with the intent of assassinating him.