List of attacks on the President of the United States

The assassination attempt on Abraham Lincoln - the first presidential assassination .

The list of assassinations of the President of the United States identifies the assassinations that were carried out on the President of the United States of America .

There are 21 known assassinations of then incumbent or former presidents as well as elected presidents . Four presidents died in the attacks or as a result of their consequences: Abraham Lincoln (16th President), James A. Garfield (20th President), William McKinley (25th President) and John F. Kennedy (35th President).

Two presidents were injured in assassination attempts: Theodore Roosevelt (26th President) and Ronald Reagan (40th President).

Most of the attacks took place in Washington, DC . The White House was chosen as the crime scene by several perpetrators. Only two assassinations were committed outside the United States, namely in Kuwait City and Tbilisi .

Murders

president	image	Date of birth	Date of assassination	date of death	Age	place	Perpetrator	Remarks
Abraham Lincoln		Feb 12, 1809	Apr 14, 1865	Apr 15, 1865	56	Washington, DC	John Wilkes Booth	The attack on Abraham Lincoln took place on Good Friday at 10:15 p.m. Lincoln was shot by well-known actor John Wilkes Booth during a screening at Ford's Theater . Lincoln suffered fatal head injuries and died as a result of the consequences at William Petersen's house the following morning. The Lincoln assassination attempt was part of a complex conspiracy that included the assassinations of Vice President Andrew Johnson , General Ulysses S. Grant, and Secretary of State William H. Seward because they were invited to the screening that evening. However, since all three stayed away from the performance, only Lincoln could be killed. Booth and his nine co-conspirators were sympathizers of the southern states and dissatisfied with their defeat in the civil war .
James A. Garfield		Nov 19, 1831	0July 2, 1881	19 Sep 1881	49	Washington, DC	Charles J. Guiteau	The attack on James A. Garfield took place at 9:30 a.m., four months after he took office. Garfield was shot with a revolver by a mentally ill person named Charles J. Guiteau while attempting to board a train at a Washington station. One of the two shots hit the president in the back and seriously injured him. He died eleven weeks later on September 19 of an infection caused by non-sterile instruments. The attack was personally motivated: after he had supported Garfield in the election campaign, Guiteau had repeatedly unsuccessfully requested his appointment as consul general in Paris .
William McKinley		Jan. 29, 1843	06 Sep 1901	Sep 14 1901	58	Buffalo , New York	Leon Czolgosz	The assassination attempt on William McKinley took place in the Temple of Music on the Pan-American Exposition . Polish-born anarchist Leon Czolgosz shot the president twice at close range. McKinley died of internal injuries eight days later. The act was inspired by the assassination attempt by Gaetano Bresci on the Italian King Umberto I in the previous year.
John F. Kennedy		May 29, 1917	Nov 22, 1963	Nov 22, 1963	46	Dallas , Texas	Lee Harvey Oswald (alleged perpetrator)	The attack on John F. Kennedy took place at 12:30 pm while driving through Dallas in an open car. Kennedy was fatally wounded by two rifle shots. He died about an hour later from the injuries. According to the prevailing view, the act was committed by Lee Harvey Oswald as a lone perpetrator. A final clarification was not possible, among other things, because Oswald himself fell victim to an attack by nightclub owner Jack Ruby before the proceedings were opened .

Attempted murders

president	image	Date of birth	Date of assassination	date of death	Age	place	Perpetrator	Remarks
Andrew Jackson		15th Mar 1767	Jan. 30, 1835	0June 8, 1845	67	Washington, DC	Richard Lawrence	The presumably mentally confused assassin tried to shoot the president, but his two pistols did not fire due to the damp weather.
Abraham Lincoln		Feb 12, 1809	23 Feb 1861	Apr 15, 1865	52	Baltimore , Maryland	Cipriano Ferrandini	Lincoln was attacked by Cipriano Ferrandini on the way to his inauguration .
Theodore Roosevelt		Oct. 27, 1858	Oct 14, 1912	0Jan. 6, 1919	53	Milwaukee , Wisconsin	John F. Closet	Roosevelt was shot once by the bartender John F. Closet in a Milwaukee bar. The folded manuscript and a metal glasses case in his jacket pocket dampened the shot, but the projectile was never removed from his chest. At this point, Roosevelt's term of office had ended three and a half years ago, but he was in the ultimately unsuccessful election campaign for a new presidency.
Franklin D. Roosevelt		Jan. 30, 1882	Feb 15, 1933	Apr 12, 1945	51	Miami , Florida	Giuseppe Zangara	The assassination attempt on Franklin D. Roosevelt took place a month before he was sworn in as US president. The Italian-American Giuseppe Zangara fired five shots. Four people died in this attack, including the mayor of Chicago , Anton Cermak . Whether Roosevelt or Cermak was the actual target of the attack is controversial.
Harry S. Truman		0May 8, 1884	0Nov 1, 1950	Dec 26, 1972	66	Washington, DC	Griselio Torresola , Oscar Collazo	The assassination attempt on Truman was carried out by two Puerto Rican freedom activists at Blair House . After shooting down two guards at the main entrance, they tried to gain access to the building, but failed. Torresola was subsequently killed by a White House Police Force officer . Torresola had already seriously wounded him before. Hours later, he too died from his injuries. The second assassin, Oscar Collazo, was arrested and sentenced to life in prison.
John F. Kennedy		May 29, 1917	Dec 11, 1960	Nov 22, 1963	43	Palm Beach , Florida	Richard Paul Pavlick	Before he took office, Kennedy was assassinated by Richard Paul Pavlick while JFK was vacationing in Palm Beach. Former Post employee Pavlick attempted to kill Kennedy with a car bomb .
Richard Nixon		0Jan. 9, 1913	Feb. 22, 1974	Apr 22, 1994	61	Washington, DC	Samuel Byck	Byck attempted to hijack a plane to crash it into the White House in hopes of killing Nixon. However, this failed him.
Gerald Ford		July 14, 1913	05th Sep 1975	Dec 26, 2006	62	Sacramento , California	Lynette Fromme	Fromme tried to murder Ford with a pistol in Capitol Park . The gun was loaded with four rounds, but the chamber was empty so that no shot could be fired at the President.
			22 Sep 1975			San Francisco , California	Sara Jane Moore	The second assassination attempt on Ford took place just 17 days after the first outside the St. Francis Hotel. Moore fired a single shot at the President from a distance of twelve meters. The missile missed the President as the passer-by grabbed Oliver Sipple Moore's arm and then pulled her to the ground.
Jimmy Carter		0Oct. 1, 1924	0May 5th 1979		54	Los Angeles , California	Raymond Lee Harvey , Osvaldo Ortiz	Raymond Lee Harvey was arrested ten minutes before the planned attack. He was in possession of a gun and was about to shoot President Carter while giving a speech with his accomplice, Osvaldo Ortiz.
Ronald Reagan		0Feb 6, 1911	30th Mar 1981	0June 5, 2004	70	Washington, DC	John Hinckley, Jr.	The assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan took place at 2:27 p.m. outside the Washington Hilton Hotel after he gave a speech there. As Reagan walked down the street towards the parked presidential limo , surrounded by Secret Service agents, John Hinckley, Jr. fired multiple shots at close range, wounding both Reagan and three other people. Reagan was pushed into the waiting limousine by a Secret Service agent and survived the assassination attempt despite his serious gunshot wound.
George Bush		June 12, 1924	Apr 13, 1993	Nov 30, 2018	68	Kuwait City , Kuwait	16 followers of Saddam Hussein	16 supporters of Hussein smuggled a car with a bomb into Kuwait. They tried to kill Bush, who was giving a speech at Kuwait University.
Bill Clinton		Aug 19, 1946	Sep 12 1994		48	Washington, DC	Frank Eugene Corder	Corder flew into the White House in a Cessna to kill Clinton. The presidential family was out of the house at the time. Corder died in the crash.
			Oct 29, 1994				Francisco Martin Duran	The second assassination attempt on Clinton took place at the White House . The assassin fired 29 shots with a semi-automatic weapon at a window behind which he suspected the president. However, it was a different person who was also not injured. Duran was arrested after the unsuccessful assassination attempt and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
George W. Bush		0July 6, 1946	0Feb 7, 2001		54	Washington, DC	Robert Pickett	Pickett fired several shots at the White House in hopes of assassinating George W. Bush. Before he could get anywhere near the President, however, he was stopped by the United States Park Police .
			May 10, 2005		58	Tbilisi , Georgia	Vladimir Arutyunian	The second assassination attempt on Bush was carried out during a panel discussion. Arutyunian threw a live grenade at the President. The bullet did not explode because it was wrapped in a cloth too tightly and the detonator could not come loose.
Barack Obama		0Aug 4, 1961	Nov 11, 2011		50	Washington, DC	Oscar Ortega-Hernandez	On Friday, November 11, 2011, Ortega-Hernandez fired multiple shots from a semi-automatic firearm at the White House in hopes of hitting Obama. However, this was at the time in his hometown of Honolulu .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Death Of President Garfield, 1881. www.eyewitnesstohistory.com, 1999, accessed on August 28, 2017 . 
2. ^ Trying to Assassinate President Jackson. (No longer available online.) Jon Grinspan, archived from the original on April 3, 2009 ; accessed on May 4, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ The Baltimore plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Retrieved May 4, 2009 . 
4. ^ Classic Wisconsin - Travel, History & Culture in America's Dairyland. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 13, 2009 ; accessed on May 4, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ crimelibrary.com. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 8, 2007 ; accessed on May 4, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman in the English language Wikipedia .
7. ^ Kennedy presidency almost ended before he was inaugurated. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 30, 2007 ; accessed on May 4, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ^ National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States: Notes. Retrieved May 4, 2009 . 
9. ^ Ford assassination attempt thwarted. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 2, 2009 ; accessed on May 4, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ^ President Ford survives second assassination attempt. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 29, 2009 ; accessed on May 4, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Skid Row Plot. Retrieved May 4, 2009 . 
12. ↑ The President is shoot. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 29, 2007 ; accessed on May 4, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ Section D: The Bush assassination attempt. Retrieved May 4, 2009 . 
14. ↑ Crash at the White House: The overview; Unimpeded, Intruder Crashes Plane Into White House. Retrieved May 4, 2009 . 
15. ^ The Case of the Failed Hand Grenade Attack - Man Who Tried to Assassinate President Convicted Overseas. Archived from the original on January 11, 2006 ; accessed on May 4, 2009 . 
16. ↑ Raf Sanchez: Barack Obama assassination attempt: Oscar Ortega-Hernandez says he is 'modern day Jesus'. The Daily Telegraph , November 18, 2011, accessed May 7, 2012 .