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So far, only four have been successfully assassinated. So let's go down the list:

1. Abraham Lincoln - he was shot by John Wilkes Booth, who was strongly pro-Confederacy and pro-slavery during the Civil War. Lincoln was President of the Union, and anti-slavery.

2. James Garfield - he was shot by Charles Guiteau. Guiteau was probably insane. He once wrote a speech in favor of Garfield during an election, and believed that the speech single-handedly won the election for him. When Garfield wouldn't give Guiteau a job in his Cabinet, Guiteau decided that God wanted him to murder Garfield.

3. William McKinley - he was shot by Leon Czolgosz, who was an anarchist- he basically wanted to overthrow the government and set up a country vaguely similar to communism as described by Karl Marx (not the communism that the Soviet Union had). There was a wave of anarchist assassinations of leaders across Europe at that time, and Czolgosz was inspired by this.

4. John F. Kennedy - this one's a little tricky. The official story is that he was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, a former US Marine who was apparently a Communist sympathizer who had lived in Soviet Russia for a few years in his early 20s. However... I'm not going to get too much into it here, but there are people who don't believe the official story and think that there's a wider conspiracy that killed him.

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