How many attempted presidential assassination were there?

Answer 1

In the United States, four have succeeded. Conspiracy theories exist regarding the deaths of Warren Harding and Zachary Taylor. It is concievable that some failed attempts may have never been discovered. Taylor was exhumed on 17 June 1991 and while Arsenic was found, it was not at a lethal level. An attempt was made on President Andrew Jackson on 30 Ja 1835 when two percussion pistols misfired and Jackson beat his attacker to the ground with his cane. Lincoln is believed to have evaded assassination on his way to the inauguration in the Baltimore Plot and in 1864 his top hat was shot off his head. Former President Theodore Roosevelt was wounded but was saved from assassination by his glasses case and a 50 page speech in his breast pocket. Herbert Hoover had a close call in Argentina when his train was targeted by a bomber. FDR was targeted for assassination in Chicago while he was the President elect but the shooter killed the Chicago Mayor instead.

Two Puerto Ricans tried to assassinate Harry Truman in 1950 by shooting their way into the Blair House where Truman was staying. A White House policeman was killed and one of the assassins was killed and the other was seriously wounded, captured, convicted and spent 29 years in prison. Fidel Castro gave him a medal in 1979 and he died at the age of 80 in 1994. Presiident-elect Kennedy was almost killed by a suicide bomber in Palm Springs in 1960 and in 1974 Richard Nixon was targeted for a 9-11 type commercial aircraft attack on the White House. The plane never got off the ground.

Gerald Ford was the target of two unrelated assassination attempts in a 17 day period. The first attempt was made by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme of Charles Manson infamy which failed because she had not chambered a round in her .45 automatic. In the second attempt a bystander knocked the gun upward as Sara Jane Moore fired. She was then tackled and never got off a second shot. Both Fromme and Moore served 30 years of their life sentence before release. Jimmy Carter was targeted for assassination, but the shooter was using a starter pistol that only fired blanks.

John Hinckley stalked Carter and then Ronald Reagan who he shot on 30 March 1981 outside of the Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC. He also wounded a Secret Service Agent, a police officer and James Brady, the Press Secretary. Hinckley used the insanity defense and as of 2011 he is still considered a mental patient.

George H. W. Bush was targeted by bombers directed by Saddam Hussein in 1993.

A Cessna was used against Bill Clinton and the White House on 12 September 1994 but Clinton wasn't there and on 29 October 1994 Francisco Martin Duran fired 29 shots at the White House while Clinton was watching a football game. He is serving 40 years. In 1996 a bombing was planned in Manila at a bridge that Clinton was scheduled to cross. That assassination attempt is blamed on Osama bin Laden. George W. Bush was in the White House when it was attacked by Robert Pickett with a pistol and on 11 September 2001 a possible Middle Eastern attack on him was foiled in Longboat Key, Florida. On 10 May 2005 in Tbilisi, Georgia a

grenade was thrown, but it did not detonate.

While President Obama was in Hawaii for the a conference on 11 November 2011 a shooter fired at the White House and cracked a window.

Answer 2

There have been at least nine unsucessful attempts: Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln (in 1961, four years prior to his death), Theodore Roosevelt (after he left office), Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush.

The closest shave was when Andrew Jackson was shot from close range, but both the guns involved misfired, against all odds. Ronald Reagan is the only president to survive being hit.

Answer 3

Besides the four presidents killed in office : Lincoln (1865), Garfield (1881), McKinley (1901) and Kennedy (1963). there have been 20 or more serious attempts on the lives of Presidents (and at least one ex-President, Theodore Roosevelt, who was shot while campaigning again in 1912).

Andrew Jackson was lucky to survive when both of the would-be assassins' pistols misfired. The Mayor of Chicago was shot and killed in 1933 while shaking hands with Franklin Roosevelt. More recently, Gerald Ford was attacked by two different women with guns 17 days apart in 1975. Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously wounded in 1981 but survived. A grenade was thrown at George W. Bush in Tbilisi, Georgia in 2005.

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Answer 4

Serious assassination attempts were made against Presidents Jackson, Franklin Roosevelt ,Truman, Ford and Reagan. Reagan was seriously wounded; the others were not hurt. Theodore Roosevelt was shot after he was president while running for a third term.

Answer 5

Reagan. Abraham Lincoln, James A Garfield, John F. Kennedy, and William McKinley were assassinated while president. 2 others were injured, but not killed, Theodore Roosevelt 3 and a half years after leaving office, and Ronald Reagan while president. Others have had attempts, but no injuries, or fatalities, that list is - Barack Obama, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Harry S. Truman, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Andrew Jackson.

Answer 6

Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan,

Answer 7

Wikipedia has an extensive list and descriptions of all the assassinations to date. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Presidential_assassination_attempts ~Drewcifer

Answer 8

Keep your distant. Still believe in you !