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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.
Since then, several American politicians have been assassinated while being elected or appointed to office, or were candidates for public office. Out of these, four were president of the United States, the earliest of which being Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and the most recent being John F. Kennedy in 1963. [1]
The attempts on Trump’s life marked a peak of political violence in recent years and the first major assassination attempt on a current or former president since Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981 ...
From legal cases to attempted assassinations, 2024 proved to be a roller coaster in U.S. politics. Former President Donald Trump became president-elect, setting up a historic return to the White ...
January 6, 2021: January 6 United States Capitol attack: A mob of rioters supporting President Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election stormed the U.S. Capitol during speeches made by Trump and his allies at a rally. After breaching multiple police perimeters, they damaged the building and occupied parts of it ...
In chronological order, an in-depth look at the history of presidential assassination attempts in the United States: January 30, 1835: Andrew Jackson. Assailant: Richard Lawrence. Method of attack ...
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.
Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated, shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, as he and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, attended a special performance of the comedy “Our American ...