The assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump on July 13 in Pennsylvania is one of more than a dozen attacks on American presidents, elected or presidential candidates in the history of the United States of America.
There were 15 attacks on presidents, elected presidents, and candidates between 1835 and 2005, according to a 2008 Congressional report. However, new attacks have been attempted since then.
For example, in 2011, a man was accused of trying to kill then-President Barack Obama after authorities said he shot at the White House . And in 2018, the Secret Service intercepted a bomb sent to Obama.
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Also, in 2016, during a rally in Las Vegas for then-candidate Donald Trumpthe man tried to snatch the gun from the policeman. The attacker subsequently admitted that he planned to kill him.
A year later, another man tried to steal a forklift during a Trump rally in order to kill him.
In particular, there are other cases of assassinations and attacks on American presidents and candidates in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Assassination attempt on George Bush
In 2005, an attacker threw a grenade at Bush during a rally in Tbilisi, but it did not explode.
Then the unknown man, who stood for hours in the sun, wearing a heavy leather coat, muttering and swearing under his breath, was part of the huge crowd awaiting President Bush's speech at Freedom Square in Tbilisi, Georgia.
He clutched a hand grenade hidden in a red scarf to his chest. The man planned to kill the president.
As the President began his speech, the attacker pulled out a pin and threw a grenade towards the podium.
Fortunately, the hand grenade did not explode because the red scarf wrapped tightly around it prevented the firing mechanism from firing quickly enough.
An alert Georgian security officer picked up the grenade and took it away from the scene. Meanwhile, the man disappeared into the huge crowd and disappeared.
On January 11, the criminal was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment for the attack on Bush and the murder of a Georgian policeman.
Attempt on the life of Ronald Reagan
March 30, 1981, President Reagan was leaving the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., where he was speaking with 5,000 members of the American Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO), when several shots rang out.
The shooter was John Hinckley Jr., who had previously stalked President Jimmy Carter and was being treated for mental illness. He fired a .22-caliber revolver at the president and his security detail.
Reagan was wounded when one of the bullets ricocheted off the limousine, hitting him under the left armpit. Also wounded in the shooting were Press Secretary James Brady, Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy, and police officer Thomas Delahanty.
President Reagan's wound was not noticed until he began coughing up blood. He was then taken to George Washington Hospital.
After 12 days in the hospital, he was able to return to the White House with a new commitment to changing the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Assassination Attempts on Gerald Ford
In 1975, President Gerald Ford suffered two assassination attempts.
September 5, 1975, a Charles Manson follower shot Gerald Ford as he approached the crowd to shake her hand. She was instantly disarmed and subsequently convicted.
17 days after the assassination attempt, on September 22, 1975 in San Francisco, Sarah Moore shot Ford with a revolver.
Thanks to former Marine Oliver Sipple grabbing her hand, she missed Ford. However, her bullet wounded the taxi driver. The woman was sentenced to life imprisonment. However, she was pardoned in December 2007.
Assassination of George Wallace
In May 1972, then-Alabama governor and Democratic presidential candidate Wallace was shot four times after a rally in Laurel, Maryland.
George Wallace was shot in the stomach and chest, with one bullet lodged in his spine, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.
Wallace was in surgery for about five hours that evening, and needed a lot of blood to survive. Three other people wounded in the shooting also survived.
Assassination of U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy
After winning the California Democratic primary, Kennedy was walking through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968, when he was shot by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan.
This followed his speech about winning the previous California election.
He was fatally shot in the right side of the back of the head at close range in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel. Five other people were also wounded at the same time.
Robert Kennedy died the day after he was wounded, June 6, 1968.
Attempt on Harry Truman
According to the Congressional Record, on November 1, 1950, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola attempted to assassinate Truman. Attackers fired at the White House.
Truman was not injured, but the policeman was killed, including two others injured.
Attempt on Franklin Roosevelt
February 15, 1933, in Miami, Roosevelt was shot five times. The assassination took place less than three weeks before Roosevelt was inaugurated for his first term.
As a result of the shots, Roosevelt was not injured. However, four other people were injured. In particular, Chicago Mayor Anton Chermak was killed.
The attacker who fired the shot was found guilty and executed on March 20, 1933.
Attempted assassination of Theodore Roosevelt
On October 14, 1912, an assassination attempt was made on Theodore Roosevelt.
Roosevelt served two terms as President of the United States — he was appointed to office after the assassination of then-President William McKinley in 1901—and when he won his own term in 1904.
According to the Library of Congress, on October 14, 1912, at a hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, businessman John Schrank aimed his .38-caliber Colt revolver at Roosevelt.
According to the Library, Shrank believed that McKinley asked Shrank to avenge his death in his sleep.
The bullets missed Roosevelt because they were delayed by the President's 50-page speech folded in his jacket pocket and a metal glasses case.
How many US presidents were assassinated
Four US Presidents were assassinated while in the White House: Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley and John Kennedy.
April 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the head while watching a play at Ford's Theater in Washington. The President's wound was fatal.
Lincoln lay in a coma for about nine hours, after which he died on the morning of April 15th.
July 2, 1881 Garfield was shot and killed by Charles Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington, DC. Garfield was then only four months into his presidency.
Garfield was shot in the back and another bullet grazed his shoulder. He lived another 79 days before dying on September 19 from infections received during treatment of his wound – from dirty hands and medical instruments.
At McKinley was shot on September 6, 1901, at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York. McKinley was shot twice in the stomach and died on September 14.
Leon Czolgosz approached the president with his hand outstretched, allegedly wanting to greet him, and shot him twice in the stomach from a revolver, which was wrapped in a handkerchief. The first bullet ricocheted off a button or medal on McKinley's jacket and ended up in his sleeve, but the second shot pierced his stomach. The President died 9 days later – September 14, 1901.
The assassination of John Kennedy occurred on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. He was shot in the head with a sniper rifle while riding in a convertible with his wife Jacqueline Kennedy in a motorcade. The President died almost immediately – 30 minutes after he was shot.
