The latest of them is Trump... American presidents who were assassinated or subjected to assassination attempts

Most of the presidents of the United States of America were subjected to assassination attempts. 4 of them were killed, others survived and sustained non-fatal injuries, and the CIA revealed their assassination plans and stopped them before they were carried out.

The American presidents who were assassinated are:

16th President Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Thomas Lincoln was born in 1809 in the eastern state of Kentucky, and he was the first American president to be assassinated.

In 1832, he ran for the Illinois General Assembly on behalf of the Whig Party - which later turned into the Republican Party - and won the presidential election for his party in 1860, becoming the 16th US President.

Lincoln is remembered for three achievements he achieved: the Civil War in which he returned the secessionist southern states to central rule by force of arms, the prohibition of slavery in the country, and the unification of the banking system that was dominated by the Jewish Rothschild family.

Lincoln was killed in 1865 at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., where he was shot while watching a play with his wife. He then died the next day at the beginning of his second presidential term.

His death was followed by a comprehensive search throughout the country for the killer, John Wilkes Booth and his assistants, and Booth was killed while refusing to surrender.

20th President James Garfield

James Abram Garfield was born in 1831 in the west-central state of Ohio, and was raised by his widowed mother. He joined the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute and graduated in 1856. He then returned as a professor and later became its president.

He was a supporter of the Republican Party, participated in the Civil War, and was then elected to the US House of Representatives in 1863 and served there until he was elected president in 1880.

Garfield was killed in 1881 after Charles Julius Guiteau shot him twice at close range at a train station in Washington while the president was on his way to New England.

Garfield suffered for more than two months before he died from his wounds, and his presidency lasted only 6 months. Guiteau was subsequently sentenced to death by hanging and was executed in 1882.

25th President William McKinley

William McKinley was born in 1843 in the west-central state of Ohio. He was a teacher when the Civil War broke out, so he left school and joined the Union army against the renegade states.

McKinley represented Ohio in the House of Representatives from 1877 and continued his membership for 14 years. He then served as governor of Ohio for two terms before being elected president in 1897, and led the country to victory in the Spanish-American War.

McKinley was killed in 1901 at the beginning of his second presidential term while visiting an exhibition in New York. After giving a speech, he insisted on shaking hands with the audience, even though some of his advisors expressed reservations about him attending the event.

Leon Czolgosz then approached McKinley and shot him twice in the stomach and chest. McKinley died a few days later, while Czolgosz was then executed in the electric chair and his body dissolved in sulfur.

35th President John Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in 1917 in Brooklyn, Massachusetts. He served in the military and participated in World War II. He represented the state of Massachusetts from 1947 to 1960 in the House of Representatives and then in the Senate.

This experience motivated him to enter the presidential race as a candidate for the Democratic Party, where he faced Republican candidate Richard Nixon and won in 1961.

His presidency extended for less than 3 years, yet he was the pioneer in launching the American space program, and he also dealt with a number of the most serious crises at the international level in the context of the Cold War with the Soviet Union.

John Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, at the age of 46, when he was shot while passing in the street in a convertible car with his wife, Jacqueline, on an official visit to Dallas, Texas, and while the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was being transported to prison two days later. The accident, he was shot and died.

Assassination attempts:

Seventh President Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson was born in 1767 in South Carolina. Educational opportunities were not available in his area, but nevertheless he worked hard, learned, and became a famous lawyer in the state of Tennessee.

He was the first man from Tennessee elected to the House of Representatives, served briefly in the Senate, and became a national hero when he defeated the British at New Orleans in 1812 during the War of Independence.

Jackson ruled the White House from 1829 to 1837, and became famous for calling during his first annual address to eliminate the institution of the Electoral College.

He was subjected to an assassination attempt while attending a funeral in 1835, when a man attacked him after it ended and tried to shoot him twice with two different pistols, but failed to assassinate him, and Jackson accused his political opponents of being behind this attempt.

26th President Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt was born in 1858 in New York. He was educated at home before enrolling at Harvard University. He then began studying law at Columbia University, but soon pursued a career in politics and writing.

He assumed the presidency of the United States in 1901 after the assassination of William McKinley, and revived the Republican Party that was on the verge of extinction. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for mediating an end to the Russo-Japanese War.

He left the presidential seat in 1909 after two presidential terms, then returned again and ran for office in 1912, and during his election campaign in the city of Milwaukee, John Schrank shot him with a bullet that lodged in his chest, but it did not kill him because of the metal eyeglass case and some folded papers that hindered its effect. Later, the results of the investigation said that Schrank became mentally ill and was sent to a hospital where he remained until his death in 1943.

32nd President Franklin Roosevelt

Franklin Roosevelt was born in 1882 in New York, a cousin of President Theodore Roosevelt. Franklin received home education until the age of 14, then he entered Groton Preparatory School. He obtained a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in only 3 years, then he joined Columbia Law School, but left without obtaining a degree.

He was elected president in 1932 and continued for four presidential terms. He succeeded in confronting the Great Depression, worked to reform the financial, agricultural, and industrial sectors. He also issued laws prohibiting banks from dealing in stocks and bonds, and established institutions through which he employed more than 3 million unemployed young men.

On February 15, 1933, Giuseppe Zangara fired five shots at Roosevelt while he was giving a speech from an open car. Zangara missed his target but wounded five others, including Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, who later died from his wounds. The killer was convicted and executed in 1933.

33rd President Harry Truman

Harry Truman was born in 1884 in Missouri. After graduating from high school in 1901, he worked as a bank employee in Kansas City, served in the National Guard twice (1905-1911), and was sent to serve in France and was a commander in the field artillery.

He assumed the presidency on April 12, 1945, after Roosevelt's death, and quickly took action at the San Francisco meeting to draft a charter for the United Nations. He also oversaw the end of the war in Europe, laid the groundwork for the final phase of the war against Japan, and ordered the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Truman was the subject of an assassination attempt while staying at Blair House, across the street from the White House, in November 1950 when two gunmen stormed the place, but he was unharmed. A policeman was killed and two others were wounded, as was one of the attackers in a shootout.

The attacker, Oscar Calazo, was arrested and sentenced to death, but Truman commuted the sentence in 1952 to life imprisonment and was released in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter.

37th President Richard Nixon

Richard Milhouse Nixon was born in 1913 in Yorba Linda. He graduated in 1934 from Whittier College in California before joining the law school at Duke University in Durham.

He was elected president in 1969, and during his presidency he faced the crisis of ending the Vietnam War, and his name was associated with what was known as the Nixon Doctrine or the Guam Doctrine, which is based on focusing American diplomacy in Asia on economic tools instead of military tools.

He was subjected to two assassination attempts, the first by shooting in 1972, and the second in 1974, when Sami Beck hijacked a DC-9 plane with the aim of crashing it into the White House and assassinating the president, but the police killed him before that.

38th President Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford was born in 1913 in Nebraska. He graduated in 1941 from Yale Law School, then joined the Navy during World War II, and was appointed Vice President in 1973.

He was sworn in on August 9, 1974, and announced a conditional amnesty program for deserters or deserters during the Vietnam War, once he took office.

He faced several challenges, including trying to control the high rate of inflation by slowing the economy, but this led to a severe recession in the period between 1974 and 1975, which led to lower inflation, but at the expense of a rise in the unemployment rate of 9%.

In 1975, he was subjected to two assassination attempts weeks apart, but he was not harmed in either of them. In the first, he was on his way to a meeting with the governor of California in Sacramento when Lynette Fromme, one of Charles Manson's disciples, rushed through a crowd of people in the street and pointed a gun at him, but she was unable to shoot, so she was sentenced to prison and released in 2009.

Seventeen days after the first attempt, another woman, Sarah Jane Moore, confronted Ford outside a hotel in San Francisco and shot him but missed, and a bystander grabbed her arm before firing a second shot. She was sentenced to prison and released in 2007.

39th President Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter was born in 1924 in the US state of Georgia. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1946. He worked in the deep sea for 7 years before resigning from his job after the death of his father and deciding to manage a pistachio farm.

He began his political career after being elected as a senator from the state of Georgia in 1962, becoming governor of the state and then president of the country representing the Democratic Party in 1977, during which he supervised the signing of the Camp David Accords, recognized the People's Republic of China, won the Nobel Peace Prize, and denounced the American invasion of Iraq and the Israeli war on Lebanon.

Carter was subjected to two assassination attempts, the first in 1979 by Raymond Harvey, who was planning to assassinate the president while he was giving a speech outside a shopping center, but the police arrested him 10 minutes before, and the second attempt by student John Hinckley in 1980 while Carter was preparing for his second election campaign. Hinckley had previously attempted to assassinate him several times.

40th President Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born in 1911 in the US state of Illinois. He graduated from its university with a major in economics and sociology in 1932. He worked as a sports commentator and film actor, before engaging in political work, ruling the state of California during the period between 1967 and 1975.

He ran in the race for the White House and defeated his rival, President Jimmy Carter, then became president for two terms from 1981 to 1989, during which he became famous for launching the Star Wars program, implicating America in the 1982 Lebanon War, and secretly selling American weapons to Iran.

Reagan was subjected to an assassination attempt in 1981 by the same young man, Hinckley, who had tried to assassinate Carter before him, but he survived the assassination attempt and emerged from it with minor injuries. He died after suffering from Alzheimer's in 2004.

41st President George H.W. Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush was born in 1924 in Milton, Massachusetts. He studied at Yale University and obtained a bachelor's degree in history. He joined the US Navy, participated in World War II, and was wounded by Japanese forces in 1944.

In 1966, he won a seat in the Federal House of Representatives, and represented his country as ambassador to the United Nations in 1971-1972, then became head of the Republican Party, then charge d'affaires to China. In 1977, he became head of the Central Intelligence Agency, and during that time he worked to ensure that its work did not exceed the powers of Congress. After President Jimmy Carter assumed the presidency, Bush resigned from the agency.

In 1979, Bush was appointed Vice President of Reagan, and in 1989 he became the 41st President of the United States. During his presidency, he issued orders for American forces to descend on Panama and arrest its president. His country led the international coalition against Iraq after the invasion of Kuwait in 1991. He also signed a treaty with the Soviet Union to end the state of hostility. historical between them.

During Bush Sr.'s visit to Kuwait in 1993 after the end of his term in honor of his leadership of the international coalition against Iraq, the Kuwaiti authorities arrested 16 people on charges of attempting to assassinate the American president with a car bomb. America accused Iraqi intelligence of being behind the attempt, and responded by bombing Iraq with 23 cruise missiles.

42nd President Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton was born in 1946 in the US state of Arkansas. He graduated from Georgetown University, specializing in international relations in 1968, then from Yale University, specializing in law. He worked in this field as a teacher at the University of Arkansas and a lawyer, until he was elected in 1978 as governor of the state of Arkansas. He became the youngest governor of the state.

The "New Democrat" presided over America in 1992 and for a second term in 1996. He became the first Democratic president to be elected for a second presidential term since the era of Franklin Roosevelt. During his reign, he achieved great economic prosperity for his country. Washington called for the overthrow of the regime of the late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, and participated in sponsoring the Dayton Peace Agreement. In Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Sexual scandals pursued him during his presidency until they almost ousted him from the presidency. The US House of Representatives attempted to impeach him in 1998 on charges of perjury and obstruction of the law, but he was acquitted by the Senate on February 12, 1999, and completed his term.

Clinton was subjected to several assassination attempts, 3 of which were in 1994, the first by Ronald Gene Barbour, who tried to assassinate him while he was exercising, the second by Frank Eugene Cowdor, who crashed his plane into the White House to assassinate Clinton, and the third by Francisco Martin Duran, who opened fire on Clinton. The White House, but tourists who were there pounced on him and held him until the police arrested him.

43rd President George Bush Jr

George W. Bush was born in 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut. He completed his university studies in history in 1968 and then joined the Texas Air National Guard at Ellington Base. He was then appointed commander of an F-102 fighter plane, and then worked in the business sector, where he founded and headed Bush Exploration Company. About oil and gas for 11 years, which gave him extensive experience and relationships in the field of petrochemicals.

Bush Jr. became president of the country in 2000, and during his reign, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon building were bombed on September 11, 2001. The Bush administration accused Al-Qaeda of being behind those attacks, so it directed its military machinery to Afghanistan, and after that it placed several Arab and Islamic organizations in the country. List of terrorism and countries including Iraq and Iran.

In 2003, American forces invaded Iraq and overthrew the regime of President Saddam Hussein under the pretext that Baghdad possessed weapons of mass destruction, an argument that was soon proven false, which led to Bush and his Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, being subjected to a wave of widespread international criticism.

In 2006, Bush Jr. was subjected to an assassination attempt while he was with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, where a nationalist named Vladimir Arutiunyan threw a bomb at them, but it did not explode.

44th President Barack Obama

Barack Obama was born in 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. He majored in political science and international relations from Columbia University and law from Harvard University in 1991. After that, he was active in the Democratic Party in the state of Illinois, and in 1996 he was elected as a member of its Senate, and in 2004 he won the congressional elections for the same state, becoming The first African American to win membership in Congress.

In 2008, he was elected president of the country to become the first American president of African descent, and in 2012 he won a second term, during which he tried to improve the image of the United States of America in the Arab and Islamic worlds after the war on terrorism campaign launched by his country, but that did not change his government’s position and its absolute support for Israel. He announced the withdrawal of his country's forces from Iraq and the end of its military presence in Afghanistan in 2014.

Obama was subjected to several assassination attempts, the most famous of which was in 2011, when Oscar Hernandez fired at least 8 bullets towards the White House, which was empty of the president and his family at that time. The perpetrator before that was known for his hatred of Obama and Washington, as he placed the president in the status of “the devil” and the “antichrist.” He considers himself the "Jesus of the new age" and a "knight of the Lord."

45th President Donald Trump

Donald Trump was born in 1946 in New York City, and his father was a wealthy man who worked in building apartments and housing for American military personnel. He graduated from the Wharton School of Business and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 and then worked for his father's real estate company.

Republican Trump won the presidential election in 2016 even though he had never been a politician and served one controversial presidential term.

One of his policies was to prevent citizens of 7 Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States of America. During his rule, he was accused of racism and considered a “populist” president due to his positions and opinions.

Trump was subjected to several assassination attempts, one in 2016 and two in 2017. He also survived an assassination attempt in July 2024 when a 20-year-old man named Thomas Matthew Crooks tried to shoot him at an election rally in Pennsylvania.

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