US Presidents Who Were Assassinated And Attempts That Failed

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Former US president Donald Trump was shot at by a gunman during a campaign rally on Saturday in an attempted assassination

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According to a research direct assaults against presidents, presidents-elect, and candidates have occurred on at least 15 separate occasions

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Here we take a look at previous assassinations and also attempts that failed

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Four US presidents were assassinated while in office

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Abraham Lincoln: Killed in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth, an American stage actor, at Ford's Theatre in Washington

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James Garfield: Shot in 1881 in Washington at a train station. He died of his wounds two-and-a-half months later

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William McKinley: Assassinated in 1901 by an anarchist in Buffalo, New York

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John F Kennedy: Lee Harvey Oswald, a US marine veteran, shot dead Kennedy in 1963 in Dallas, Texas as the president rode in a motorcade

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US presidents who survived assassination attempts in the past

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Ronald Reagan: He was shot in 1981 outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington but survived the attack

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President Gerald Ford: Survived two attempts on his life in less than three weeks in 1975 without being hurt

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Theodore Roosevelt: He was shot in the chest in 1912 while campaigning for elections in Milwaukee and survived

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