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Since the founding of the American nation in 1776, the country’s political life has been marked by numerous cases of violence targeting presidents, former presidents, and presidential candidates of major American parties.

Abraham Lincoln, 16^e President of the United States. Shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, Mr. Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated. He was shot in the head while attending a comedy special with his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. Our American cousin at Ford’s Theater in Washington. His support for black rights was cited as a motive for his murder.

James Garfield, 20^e President of the United States. James Garfield was the second president to be assassinated six months after taking office. He was passing through Washington Station on July 2, 1881, to take a train to New England, when he was shot and killed by Charles Guido, who was hanged in June 1882.

William McKinley, 25^e President of the United States. After delivering a speech in Buffalo, New York on September 6, 1901, Mr. McKinley was shot. As he was shaking hands with people standing in line, a man fired two bullets into his chest. McKinley died on September 14, 1901, six months into his second term. Leon F. Czolgosz, an unemployed 28-year-old resident of Detroit, admitted to the shooting. He was found guilty and executed in the electric chair on October 29, 1901.

John F. Kennedy, 35^e President of the United States. Mr. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, armed with a high-powered rifle, while the president was traveling through Dallas with first lady Jacqueline Kennedy in November 1963. Gunshots rang out as the president’s motorcade drove through Dealey Plaza downtown. A few hours after the massacre, Mr. The police arrested Oswald. John F. Kennedy was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he died a short time later.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, they faced assassination attempts. As does Democratic candidate Donald Trump George C. Wallace In 1972, he was injured during his presidential campaign at a campaign rally in Maryland.