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Assassination and Mourning
Assassination attempts
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 |
Year |
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President |
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Assassin |
 |
Result |
 |
 |
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1835 |
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Andrew Jackson |
 |
Richard Lawrence |
 |
Jackson is unhurt |
 |
 |
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1865 |
 |
Abraham Lincoln |
 |
John Wilkes Booth |
 |
Lincoln is killed |
 |
 |
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1881 |
 |
James Garfield |
 |
Charles Guiteau |
 |
Garfield is killed |
 |
 |
 |
1901 |
 |
William McKinley |
 |
Leon Czolgosz |
 |
McKinley is killed |
 |
 |
 |
1912 |
 |
Theodore Roosevelt |
 |
John Schrank |
 |
Roosevelt is wounded |
 |
 |
 |
1933 |
 |
Franklin Roosevelt |
 |
Giuseppe Zangara |
 |
Roosevelt is unhurt |
 |
 |
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1950 |
 |
Harry S. Truman |
 |
Oscar Collazo |
 |
Truman is unhurt |
 |
 |
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1950 |
 |
Harry S. Truman |
 |
Oscar Collazo Griselio Torresola |
 |
Truman is unhurt |
 |
 |
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1963 |
 |
John F. Kennedy |
 |
Lee Harvey Oswald |
 |
Kennedy is killed |
 |
 |
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1975 |
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Gerald R. Ford |
 |
Lynette Fromme |
 |
Ford is unhurt |
 |
 |
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1975 |
 |
Gerald R. Ford |
 |
Sara Jane Moore |
 |
Ford is unhurt |
 |
 |
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1981 |
 |
Ronald Reagan |
 |
John Hinckley Jr. |
 |
Reagan is wounded |
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