On Good Friday evening, President and Mrs. Lincoln attended a performance at Ford’s Theater in Washington. At shortly after 10 o’clock, John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box and shot Lincoln in the back of his head. Lincoln died April 15. Also see Lincoln Assassination.
Seward escaped assassination after he was stabbed in the throat during the Lincoln assassination plot. He recovered and continued to serve as secretary of state under Andrew Johnson.
President Garfield was waiting at a train station for a trip to a college reunion; he was approached by a disappointed office seeker, Charles J. Guiteau, who fired two pistol shots into the president. The assassin proclaimed, "I am a Stalwart. Arthur is now president." Garfield hung on for 11 weeks before dying.
President McKinley’s term as commander and chief was cut short when he was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. He died on September 14.
Three weeks before the presidential election, Roosevelt was shot in the chest while delivering a speech in Milwaukee by a deranged saloonkeeper. The bullet was slowed and deflected by a folded 50-page speech and a metal glasses case that were in Roosevelt’s coat pocket.
President Kennedy, the First Lady, and Governor John B. Connelly were traveling in a convertible limousine on their way to speak at a meeting of the Citizens Council when Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly inflicted fatal head wounds to the president with a high-powered rifle. Gov. Connelly was wounded. Oswald was shot and killed two days later by Jack Ruby.
Black activist Malcolm X (a.k.a. El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) was shot and killed in a New York City auditorium; his assassins were never positively identified.
While campaigning for the U.S. presidency, the Alabama governor was shot four times by Arthur Herman Bremer. Three other people were wounded as well. The assassination attempt left Wallace paralyzed from the waist down.
Anti-war activist John Lennon was assassinated by Mark David Chapman. High school student Chapman fired four flat-tipped .38-caliber rounds into Lennon’s back.
Just 69 days after taking office, President Ronald Reagan was shot in the left lung by John W. Hinckley Jr; three others also were wounded. Reagan made a speedy and politically stimulating recovery.
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