They were not as lucky as Trump: which US presidents were killed during an assassination attempt

We also talk about those US presidents who escaped death during attacks.

There have been four US presidents throughout the history of the United States were killed. Other leaders of the country, in particular, and the newly running 45th President of the United States Donald Trump, have escaped assassination attempts thanks to heroic bystanders, diligent security guards, faulty pistols and morals.

This is discussed in the Business Insider article.

Which US president died during the attack

Which US President escaped death during an assassination attempt: the most dramatic cases

“Former US President Donald Trump was “punched in the ear” during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, July 13, after a gunman opened fire from a nearby rooftop. A spokesman said after the incident, Trump feels “good.” The FBI said it was investigating the shooting as an attempted murder,” the material recalls.

On a hot August night in 1864, a sniper hit the hat of Abraham Lincoln – the 16th President of the United States during a horseback ride to see Lincoln on his beloved “Old Eibe”.

Later, five days after Robert E. Lee's surrender, Lincoln was shot and killed by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.

Nearly a century later, in 1960, retired postal worker Richard Paul Pavlik filled his car with dynamite and planned to ram the car into John F. Kennedy's limousine in Palm Beach. The striker hated Catholics and the Kennedy family. He abandoned the assassination attempt when he saw that the president was in the car with his wife and small children. Pavlik was later arrested and sent to prison by 1966. It came out three years after Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas.

12 presidents who escaped assassination attempts

These presidents have faced serious assassination threats and ultimately survived—and these are just the most dramatic, most publicized cases. No doubt the Secret Service has thwarted many others over the years.

1. Andrew Jackson survived an assassination attempt in 1835.
2. President Theodore Roosevelt was saved by a thick outline of his speech in his breast pocket in 1912. Then the attacker shot him in the chest with a .38 caliber revolver. Note that Roosevelt still ended his speech with a bullet under his rib, where it remained until the president’s death in 1919.
3. Herbert Hoover nearly died in 1928 while visiting the Andes. Argentinean anarchists tried to blow up his train, but the attacker was captured before he could plant bombs under the train.
4. Franklin Roosevelt survived the Miami shooting in 1933.
5. Harry Trumanescaped two attempts on his life. Bombs were first mailed to him in 1947. Subsequently, in 1950, nationalists Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola attempted to storm the Blair House, where Truman lived during the renovation of the White House.
6. Richard Nixon survived the 1917 attack. Then the attacker targeted the President, trying to hijack the plane he was in and ram the US President's aircraft into the White House.
7. Gerald Ford survived two assassination attempts in California in September 1975. First, the attacker who wanted to kill Ford ran out of ammunition. The second time – the shot was not accurate.
8. Jimmy Carter escaped death in 1979.
9. Ronald Reaganin 1981, he was seriously injured as a result of the shooting of John Hinckley Jr., but doctors operated on Reagan in time and remained alive.
10. Bill Clinton survived several assassination attempts, three in 1994 alone. They waylaid him while jogging, rammed his car, shot at him and planted explosives on the roads where he was supposed to be driving. Fortunately, all attempts were unsuccessful.
11. George Bush escaped death in 2005 during a speech with then Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Then a grenade was thrown onto the stage, but it did not work.
12. Barack Obama escaped a racially biased attack by two Americans in 2008. Paul Schlesselman and Daniel Cowart conspired to kill him, but the police uncovered the detailed plot and arrested the attackers long before the assassination attempt took place.