From Abraham Lincoln to Gerald Ford, here are the stories of eight iconic US politicians
Donald Trump joins a long line of US presidents and candidates for the White House who have faced attempts on their lives over more than 150 years.was the first US president to be killed while in office, when he was shot in the head from behind while attending a theatre in Washington, in 1865. Lincoln died the next day.
Garfield’s killer, Charles Guiteau, who had been turned down for a diplomatic posting, had been stalking the president for weeks. He was later hanged for the crime.who had also fought in the civil war, was shot in the chest at point blank range in Buffalo, New York, in September 1901 and died a few days later of gangrene caused by the wounds.
Gunman Lee Harvey Oswald was himself shot dead two days later while in the custody of police, as he was being taken to the county jail. Kennedy was succeeded by his vice-president Lyndon B Johnson, who was re-elected by a landslide a year later., known as Bobby, a key figure in JFK’s White House, was shot while running in the Democratic primaries as a potential presidential candidate, in 1968.
As well as these five successful assassination attempts, several other presidents and former presidents have been targeted over the years, most recentlyIn March 1981, Reagan was leaving the Hilton Hotel in Washington where he had been addressing trade unionists, when several shots were fired, one of which hit the president under his arm. He spent 12 days in hospital and later said, “getting shot hurts”., who was shot and wounded in 1912, after leaving office .
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