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What happened to the men who killed United States Presidents? All four of them John Wilkes Booth, Charles J. Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz and Lee Harvey Oswald were killed no more than a year after each of the shootings. While not each of them were tried or even captured all four met the same end.
0:00 John Wilkes Booth
1:09 Charles Julius Guiteau
2:35 Leon Czolgosz
3:52 Lee Harvey Oswald
5:15 Preview for Boston Corbett Video
John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. He fled the scene of the crime and sent the United States military on a 12 day manhunt. Booth was never captured. While being held up by the military inside a burning barn he was shot by Sergeant Boston Corbett.
The single shot struck Booth in the neck leaving him paralyzed. He was dragged out of the barn and spent the neck three hours bleeding and dying of asphyxiation. "Tell my mother I died for my country," he said. His final words were, "Useless. Useless."
On July 2, 1881 Charles J. Guiteau delivered two shots from a pistol to President James A. Garfield. Unlike Booth, Guiteau was captured immediately at the scene and began shouting, "Arthur is now president." While some initially suspected that Chester A. Arthur and Stalwart leader Roscoe Conkling might have been involved it quickly became clear that Guiteau was simply a madman.
During his trial, Charles Guiteau demonstrated bizarre behavior to the court room that made him a sort of celebrity (though one who was hated). He argued with his lawyers, cursed at the judge and loudly read his own poems. After a length trial and one of the first high profile insanity defenses Guiteau was executed via hanging almost a year to the day after shooting President Garfield.
President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz on September 6, 1901. Czolgosz was immediately captured at the scene. He made no efforts to defend himself from punishment openly declaring that he killed McKinley because he saw him as an ally of the wealthy. Czolgosz was executed in the electric chair.
On November 22, 1963 John F. Kennedy was fatally injured by an assassin. Lee Harvey Oswald was later taken into police custody under suspicion that he killed the president. Oswald repeatedly denied any involvement in the assassination and insisted that he was merely a patsy being setup because of his affiliation as a Marxist.
Oswald never got to stand trial as just to days after being arrested he was shot while being escorted out of the Dallas police station. Clubowner Jack Ruby claimed he shot Oswald as vengeance for the president and to spare First Lady Jackie Kennedy the trauma of a prolonged trial.
A private and heavily guarded funeral was held for Oswald on November 25 (the same day JFK was laid to rest).
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What happened to the men who killed United States Presidents? All four of them John Wilkes Booth, Charles J. Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz and Lee Harvey Oswald were killed no more than a year after each of the shootings. While not each of them were tried or even captured all four met the same end.
0:00 John Wilkes Booth
1:09 Charles Julius Guiteau
2:35 Leon Czolgosz
3:52 Lee Harvey Oswald
5:15 Preview for Boston Corbett Video
John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. He fled the scene of the crime and sent the United States military on a 12 day manhunt. Booth was never captured. While being held up by the military inside a burning barn he was shot by Sergeant Boston Corbett.
The single shot struck Booth in the neck leaving him paralyzed. He was dragged out of the barn and spent the neck three hours bleeding and dying of asphyxiation. "Tell my mother I died for my country," he said. His final words were, "Useless. Useless."
On July 2, 1881 Charles J. Guiteau delivered two shots from a pistol to President James A. Garfield. Unlike Booth, Guiteau was captured immediately at the scene and began shouting, "Arthur is now president." While some initially suspected that Chester A. Arthur and Stalwart leader Roscoe Conkling might have been involved it quickly became clear that Guiteau was simply a madman.
During his trial, Charles Guiteau demonstrated bizarre behavior to the court room that made him a sort of celebrity (though one who was hated). He argued with his lawyers, cursed at the judge and loudly read his own poems. After a length trial and one of the first high profile insanity defenses Guiteau was executed via hanging almost a year to the day after shooting President Garfield.
President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz on September 6, 1901. Czolgosz was immediately captured at the scene. He made no efforts to defend himself from punishment openly declaring that he killed McKinley because he saw him as an ally of the wealthy. Czolgosz was executed in the electric chair.
On November 22, 1963 John F. Kennedy was fatally injured by an assassin. Lee Harvey Oswald was later taken into police custody under suspicion that he killed the president. Oswald repeatedly denied any involvement in the assassination and insisted that he was merely a patsy being setup because of his affiliation as a Marxist.
Oswald never got to stand trial as just to days after being arrested he was shot while being escorted out of the Dallas police station. Clubowner Jack Ruby claimed he shot Oswald as vengeance for the president and to spare First Lady Jackie Kennedy the trauma of a prolonged trial.
A private and heavily guarded funeral was held for Oswald on November 25 (the same day JFK was laid to rest).
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