6 former US Presidents who have been attacked before Donald Trump
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6 former US Presidents who have been attacked before Donald Trump | Before Donald Trump, six former US Presidents faced assassination attempts. Explore the history of attacks on American leaders throughout the nation's past.
6 former US Presidents who have been attacked before Donald Trump | Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated as he was fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865.
6 former US Presidents who have been attacked before Donald Trump | Ames Garfield was targeted in an assassination plot when he headed to board a train to New England when he was fatally shot by Charles Guiteau.
6 former US Presidents who have been attacked before Donald Trump | Andrew Jackson experienced an assassination attempt on January 30, 1835, by an unemployed house painter named Richard Lawrence.
6 former US Presidents who have been attacked before Donald Trump | Theodore Roosevelt wasn't a president of the US when an assassination attempt took place. He was shot by John Flammang Schrank.
6 former US Presidents who have been attacked before Donald Trump | Franklin D Roosevelt, then president-elect was attacked by Giuseppe Zangara in 1933 in Miami, Florida.
6 former US Presidents who have been attacked before Donald Trump | Harry S Truman was staying at Blair House when two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to kill him.