Which American presidents were assassinated?

The shooting of Donald Trump, the candidate for the presidency of the United States last night, has caused a lot of noise. But in American history, many former presidents and candidates for this position have been attacked.

Andrew Jackson, the first person on this list, was shot while attending a funeral in the Capitol during the pre-Civil War era. The shooter shot him twice, but the gun jammed.

The next person is Theodore Roosevelt, who, like Trump, was trying to get his previous job back during the 1912 election campaign.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president-elect who was shot by an assassin in Miami in 1933. The person who shot Roosevelt made a mistake and killed Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak.

Harry Truman is another American president who assumed the presidency after Roosevelt’s death and was shot in front of the White House by Puerto Rican nationalists in 1950.

George Wallace was the secessionist governor of Alabama who ran for president for the third time in 1972 and was shot after a campaign event outside Washington, DC. The shooting caused him to be paralyzed from the waist down.

Gerald Ford was one of the American presidents who faced two consecutive assassination attempts in 1975.

Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981 after giving a speech outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington DC. His press secretary, James Brady, was seriously injured and later became an anti-gun activist.

Barack Obama was the first black president of the United States when a man from Idaho shot at the White House in 2011 to assassinate him.

American history is marked by the assassination of four presidents who were assassinated during their presidency: from the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 to the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1963. 

A total of four presidents were killed by an assassin, the first of which was President Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated in 1865 while sitting in his seat at Ford’s Theater in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, who was a He was an actor, he was killed. 

The second victim was James Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, who was shot by Charles Guiteau at the Washington Railway Station on July 2, 1881, and died shortly thereafter. Guiteau was an American lawyer who had not been able to get hired in his desired job. 

William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, was shot and wounded by an American anarchist, Leon Cholgosh, on September 6, 1901, while meeting with dignitaries at the Pan-American Exposition. He died several days after these injuries. 

In more recent history, the most shocking assassination was the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963. That day, around 12:30 (local time), while the presidential limousine was passing through the people lined up on both sides of the street to see the president, gunshots were heard and “John Fitzgerald Kennedy” He fell inside the car while his wife Jackie was next to him. The news of the death of the 35th president of the United States was announced from the hospital at 13:00. The John F. Kennedy Assassination Commission concluded in 1964 that Lee Harvey Oswald killed him (John F. Kennedy) alone. “Lee Harvey Oswald” was a former Navy commando.