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HOW MANY TIMES has a US President or former President been assassinated or nearly assassinated and what are the details of those incidents? In the wake of the shooting of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania I take a brief look at the previous murders of sitting or former US Presidents and the attempts on their lives which came the closest to killing them. In chronological order I will discuss the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth in 1865, the assassination of James A. Garfield by Charles J. Guiteau in 1881, the assassination of William McKinley by Leon Czolgosz in 1901, the shooting of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 by John Schrank, the assassination of John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 and the shooting of Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. in 1981. I will finish by very briefly looking at the events in Butler in 2024.
In this American history documentary from History Calling I will also discuss some of the supposed motivations behind presidential assassinations and assassination attempts, from the political to the deranged, including Hinckley’s claim that he was trying to impress the then very young actress, Jodie Foster.
I will not be looking at attacks which did not result in injury to the Presidents or at attacks on Presidential candidates, such as Robert Kennedy, who were not former Presidents as well. This video will NOT show any injuries or gore.
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HOW MANY TIMES has a US President or former President been assassinated or nearly assassinated and what are the details of those incidents? In the wake of the shooting of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania I take a brief look at the previous murders of sitting or former US Presidents and the attempts on their lives which came the closest to killing them. In chronological order I will discuss the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth in 1865, the assassination of James A. Garfield by Charles J. Guiteau in 1881, the assassination of William McKinley by Leon Czolgosz in 1901, the shooting of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 by John Schrank, the assassination of John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 and the shooting of Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. in 1981. I will finish by very briefly looking at the events in Butler in 2024.
In this American history documentary from History Calling I will also discuss some of the supposed motivations behind presidential assassinations and assassination attempts, from the political to the deranged, including Hinckley’s claim that he was trying to impress the then very young actress, Jodie Foster.
I will not be looking at attacks which did not result in injury to the Presidents or at attacks on Presidential candidates, such as Robert Kennedy, who were not former Presidents as well. This video will NOT show any injuries or gore.
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