Many people say they want to be president, but do they realize how dangerous that title actually is? Although you probably already know about the presidents who were assassinated –
Abraham Lincoln,
James A. Garfield,
William McKinley, and
John F. Kennedy – you might not be aware of numerous other attempts on the lives of
American presidents.
Sometimes motivated by political reasons and sometimes pure insanity, these are 25
Assassination Attempts On
US Presidents You
Might Not Know About.
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After hearing about all these assassination attempts on
U.S. Presidents, do you still want the job?
Andrew Jackson - painter named
Richard Lawrence attempted to shoot
Jackson with a pistol.
Abraham Lincoln -
Baltimore Plot
Abraham Lincoln - while riding his horse
William Howard Taft - on the border of
Mexico
Theodore Roosevelt -
Roosevelt was shot in the chest during a speech by
John Schrank
Herbert Hoover -
Argentinian anarchists tried to blow up his railroad car.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - On
February 15 in
Miami, Florida,
Giuseppe Zangara five times in the direction of Roosevelt.
Harry S. Truman - A militant zionist group known as the
Stern Gang sent several explosive letters to the
White House.
Harry S. Truman - Two
Puerto Rican activists,
Oscar Collazo
Griselio Torresola, attempted to kill
Truman at his temporary home
John F. Kennedy -
Richard Pavlick, a retired postal worker, had the intention of smashing his dynamite packed car into
Kennedy's vehicle.
Richard Nixon -
Arthur Bremer was stopped by security at an event where he intended to shoot
Nixon.
Richard Nixon -
Samuel Byck planned to kill the president by crashing a plane into the White House.
Gerald Ford -
Lynette Fromme, a follower of
Charles Manson, tried to shoot
Ford as he shook her hand.
Gerald Ford -
Sara Jane Moore fired at Ford
Jimmy Carter -
Raymond Lee Harvey claimed to be part of a four man group that was attempting to assassinate the
President
Ronald Reagan -
Reagan and three others were shot by
John Hinckley Jr.
George H. W. Bush -
Kuwaiti police arrested 14 people in a plot to
detonate a car bomb near Bush.
Bill Clinton -
21st,
Ronald Gene Barbour, a retired military planned to assassinate
Clinton while he was jogging.
Bill Clinton - 12th,
Frank Eugene Corder, truck driver from
Maryland, died while deliberately crashing a Cessna into the White House lawn.
Bill Clinton -
Francisco Martin Duran began to fire shots at the White House
Bill Clinton -
Bomb on a bridge by
Osama bin Laden
George W. Bush -
Georgia,
Vladimir Arutyunian threw a live grenade at the president.
Barack Obama - two white supremacists, were arrested on
October 22nd for planning to drive their car towards
Obama
Barack Obama - A
Syrian man pretending to be an Al-Jazeera news reporter was arrested by
Turkish authorities for planning to stab Obama
Barack Obama -
Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez opened fire on
the White House.
With all these assassination attempts, would you still want to be
President of the United States?
Let us know if so and why on the comments below.
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- published: 30 Jun 2015
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