Presidential Assassinations Attempts US
This article is about the Presidential Assassinations attempts of the United States of America. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865, at the Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth.
James Abram Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881, at the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad station by Charles Guiteau. Garfield later died on September 19th.
William McKinley was shot on September 6, 1901, at the Pan-American Exposition by Leon Czolsgosz. McKinley later died on the 14th.
John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
Abraham Lincoln Assassination
James Abram Garfield Assassination
William McKinley Assassination
John F Kennedy Assassination
Lawrence fired two Derringer pistols at the President but both miraculously misfired. 67-year-old Jackson engaged the would-be assassin, clobbering him with his walking stick during the entire altercation. A delusional Lawrence was found not guilty by reason of insanity and died in a mental institution.
Sara Jane Moore branding a .38 caliber gun on September 22, 1975, fired at President Gerald Ford just outside the Saint Francis Hotel entrance in San Francisco, California.
Moore belonged to a radical leftist group and her motive in her own words: "To spark a revolution." Fortunately, she only got off one unsuccessful shot and President Ford was unharmed. However, a nearby cab driver suffered a flesh wound when the bullet grazed him.
Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy used his body as a shield and took a bullet to the chest. Two additional al protectors of the U.S. President were also wounded. D.C. Policemen Thomas Delahanty was shot in the neck and Press Secretary James Brady was shot in the head. A stray bullet ricocheted off the Presidential limousine and hit Reagan in the side, grazed a rib then slammed into his left lung.
Reagan was unaware he had been shot until he began to cough up blood. He was rushed to the hospital where he underwent emergency surgery to remove the bullet. Reagan spent about two weeks in the hospital and made a full recovery. McCarthy and Delahanty also made a full recovery from their wounds. Unfortunately, the wound to Brady's head was severed and he suffered permanent brain damage.
John Wilkes Booth a famous theater actor who performed often at the Ford's Theater building where he planned the assassination of President Lincoln. He knew the layout of the building and planned his escape route. Waiting outside with horses was a Booth co-conspirator. He did indeed escape breaking his leg in the process. Booth was hunted by the United States Military for twelve days. The manhunt ended in Booth's Death.
Charles Guiteau was deemed not to be an insane man and was hanged in Washington D.C. on June 30, 1882, for the assassination of President Garfield.
Leon Czolgosz a radical anarchist who fanatically followed the writings and teachings of well-known anarchist Emma Goldman. Czolgosz planned to duplicate the success of the Italian anarchist Gaetano Breski's a year earlier. Bresci assassinated King Umberto I, of Italy on July 29, 1900. Czolgosz was arrested, tried, convicted, and died in the electric chair for the assassination of President McKinley.
John Schrank dreamed President William McKinley came to him one night in a dream and professed Theodore Roosevelt responsible for his assassination. Schrank began stalking Roosevelt across the country during the 1912 Presidential campaign. Roosevelt was running for a third term under the Bull Moose Party against. Deemed incompetent to stand trial, Schrank was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in a mental hospital and died on September 15, 1943.
Giuseppe Zangara was arrested and tried on February 20, 1933, with four counts of assault with a deadly weapon and the assassination attempt on the President-elect. He was sentenced to a mere eight years in prison but upon the death of Mayor Cermak was charged again with murder and sentenced to death by electrocution. Zangara would live just long enough to witness FDR's Inauguration On March 20, 1933, as the thirty-second U.S. President.
Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola were two Puerto Rican Nationalists. Grisel was shot during the assassination attempt of President Harry Truman but Collazo was captured, convicted, and sentenced to death. However, President Truman commuted the death sentence to life in a prison sentence. In 1979 President Jimmy Carter commuted the life in a prison sentence and Collazo was released from Prison.
Presidential Assassinations - Lee Harvey Oswald was found hiding by the police at the Texas Theater. The 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald was taken into custody for the alleged assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the wounding of the Texas Governor John B. Connally. Oswald was arraigned and interrogated but didn't live to see a day in court for the charges. On November 24, 1963, Oswald was gunned down by Jack Ruby while he was being transported to the County Jail.
Lynette Alice Fromme "Squeaky" a twenty-six-year-old former member of the Charles Manson Family and a Manson sympathizer. With an unloaded weapon Fromme never intended to shoot President Gerald Ford, her goal was to set the stage for Manson to be a witness in her trial and given the opportunity to clear his name. He was never called as a witness and Fromme was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Sara Jane Moore a 45-year-old mother of four, was arrested and sentenced to life in federal prison on January 15, 1976, for the assassination attempt of President Gerald Ford. She escaped over the barbed wire fence in 1979 but was quickly apprehended a few hours later and moved to a more secure federal prison where she spent the next 32 years. She was paroled and released from prison on December 31, 2007.
Presidential Assassinations - John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in order to impress actress, Jodie Foster. The twenty-five-year-old Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to St Elizabeth's Mental Hospital.
James Abram Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881, at the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad station by Charles Guiteau. Garfield later died on September 19th.
John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
Presidential Assassination Attempts
Let's read more information about Presidential Assassinations...Abraham Lincoln Assassination
James Abram Garfield Assassination
William McKinley Assassination
John F Kennedy Assassination
Assassination attempt of President Andrew Jackson
First Presidential Assassinations Attempts was Andrew Jackson escapes an assassination attempt on January 30, 1835. As the story goes...The President was fired upon by Richard Lawrence while attending a congressman's funeral at the Capitol Building.Lawrence fired two Derringer pistols at the President but both miraculously misfired. 67-year-old Jackson engaged the would-be assassin, clobbering him with his walking stick during the entire altercation. A delusional Lawrence was found not guilty by reason of insanity and died in a mental institution.
Assassination attempt of President Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was shot on October 14, 1912, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by John Schrank. Luckily the bullet's path entered through the breast pocket containing a metal eyeglass case and a folded fifty-page speech. Still Bleeding with a bullet lodged in his chest, Roosevelt refused to go to the hospital. He stepped on stage with blood-soaked clothing and delivered the speech in its entirety. The bullet was never removed.Assassination Attempt of President Franklin Roosevelt
President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt was shot at by Giuseppe Zangara on February 15, 1933, in Miami, Florida. A spree of bullets was unleashed into the crowd. Four innocent bystanders were wounded during the shooting spree along with Mayor Antone Cermak. The Mayor was the only victim mortally wounded in the right lung and he died in the hospital two weeks later. Franklin Roosevelt escaped the assassination attempt unharmedAssassination attempt of President Harry S. Truman
Harry Truman was attacked while sleeping at the Blair House on Pennsylvania Avenue on November 1, 1950, by two gunmen. Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola stormed the front lawn and a gunfight broke out between the gunman and the White House Police. Dozens of shots were fired, leaving Torresola dead, Collazo wounded, and Truman unharmed.Assassination attempt of President Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford was approached by a woman in red on September 5, 1975, Waving a .45 caliber handgun at his head. Ford saw the gun, ducked and the Secret Service swiftly took action the gun was grabbing the would-be assassin's gun before it could be fired. Though the President was never in any real danger, because the gun was not loaded, Lynnette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme was still arrested and tried for the attempted assassination of President Ford.Sara Jane Moore branding a .38 caliber gun on September 22, 1975, fired at President Gerald Ford just outside the Saint Francis Hotel entrance in San Francisco, California.
Moore belonged to a radical leftist group and her motive in her own words: "To spark a revolution." Fortunately, she only got off one unsuccessful shot and President Ford was unharmed. However, a nearby cab driver suffered a flesh wound when the bullet grazed him.
Assassination attempt of President Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was fired upon by John Hinckley Jr. on March 30, 1981. It was initially reported in the news that the President escaped without injury, those accounts were promptly refuted during live broadcasts.Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy used his body as a shield and took a bullet to the chest. Two additional al protectors of the U.S. President were also wounded. D.C. Policemen Thomas Delahanty was shot in the neck and Press Secretary James Brady was shot in the head. A stray bullet ricocheted off the Presidential limousine and hit Reagan in the side, grazed a rib then slammed into his left lung.
Reagan was unaware he had been shot until he began to cough up blood. He was rushed to the hospital where he underwent emergency surgery to remove the bullet. Reagan spent about two weeks in the hospital and made a full recovery. McCarthy and Delahanty also made a full recovery from their wounds. Unfortunately, the wound to Brady's head was severed and he suffered permanent brain damage.
Presidential Assassins?
Richard Lawrence a thirty-four-year-old house painter was arrested for the attempted assassination of Andrew Jackson on January 30, 1835. Lawrence's criminal trial began on April 11, 1835, and was prosecuted by Andrew Scott Keys (the author of the Star-Spangled Banner). Everyone involved believed Lawrence was insane including the jury having found him not guilty by reason of insanity in less than two full days. Lawrence died in a mental hospital 26 years later in the year of 1861.John Wilkes Booth a famous theater actor who performed often at the Ford's Theater building where he planned the assassination of President Lincoln. He knew the layout of the building and planned his escape route. Waiting outside with horses was a Booth co-conspirator. He did indeed escape breaking his leg in the process. Booth was hunted by the United States Military for twelve days. The manhunt ended in Booth's Death.
Charles Guiteau was deemed not to be an insane man and was hanged in Washington D.C. on June 30, 1882, for the assassination of President Garfield.
Leon Czolgosz a radical anarchist who fanatically followed the writings and teachings of well-known anarchist Emma Goldman. Czolgosz planned to duplicate the success of the Italian anarchist Gaetano Breski's a year earlier. Bresci assassinated King Umberto I, of Italy on July 29, 1900. Czolgosz was arrested, tried, convicted, and died in the electric chair for the assassination of President McKinley.
John Schrank dreamed President William McKinley came to him one night in a dream and professed Theodore Roosevelt responsible for his assassination. Schrank began stalking Roosevelt across the country during the 1912 Presidential campaign. Roosevelt was running for a third term under the Bull Moose Party against. Deemed incompetent to stand trial, Schrank was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in a mental hospital and died on September 15, 1943.
Giuseppe Zangara was arrested and tried on February 20, 1933, with four counts of assault with a deadly weapon and the assassination attempt on the President-elect. He was sentenced to a mere eight years in prison but upon the death of Mayor Cermak was charged again with murder and sentenced to death by electrocution. Zangara would live just long enough to witness FDR's Inauguration On March 20, 1933, as the thirty-second U.S. President.
Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola were two Puerto Rican Nationalists. Grisel was shot during the assassination attempt of President Harry Truman but Collazo was captured, convicted, and sentenced to death. However, President Truman commuted the death sentence to life in a prison sentence. In 1979 President Jimmy Carter commuted the life in a prison sentence and Collazo was released from Prison.
Presidential Assassinations - Lee Harvey Oswald was found hiding by the police at the Texas Theater. The 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald was taken into custody for the alleged assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the wounding of the Texas Governor John B. Connally. Oswald was arraigned and interrogated but didn't live to see a day in court for the charges. On November 24, 1963, Oswald was gunned down by Jack Ruby while he was being transported to the County Jail.
Lynette Alice Fromme "Squeaky" a twenty-six-year-old former member of the Charles Manson Family and a Manson sympathizer. With an unloaded weapon Fromme never intended to shoot President Gerald Ford, her goal was to set the stage for Manson to be a witness in her trial and given the opportunity to clear his name. He was never called as a witness and Fromme was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Sara Jane Moore a 45-year-old mother of four, was arrested and sentenced to life in federal prison on January 15, 1976, for the assassination attempt of President Gerald Ford. She escaped over the barbed wire fence in 1979 but was quickly apprehended a few hours later and moved to a more secure federal prison where she spent the next 32 years. She was paroled and released from prison on December 31, 2007.
Presidential Assassinations - John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in order to impress actress, Jodie Foster. The twenty-five-year-old Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to St Elizabeth's Mental Hospital.
