Episode 75 Show Notes
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DID YOU EVER WONDER?
List of United States presidential assassination attempts and plot
Assassination attempts and plots on the President of the United States have been numerous, ranging from the early 19th century to the present day. This article lists assassinations and assassination attempts on incumbent and former presidents and presidents-elect, but not on those who had not yet been elected president.
Four sitting presidents have been killed: Abraham Lincoln (1865, by John Wilkes Booth), James A. Garfield (1881, by Charles J. Guiteau), William McKinley (1901, by Leon Czolgosz), and John F. Kennedy (1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald). Ronald Reagan (1981, by John Hinckley Jr.) is the only sitting U.S. president to have been injured in an assassination attempt while in office and survive. Theodore Roosevelt (1912, by John Schrank) and Donald Trump (2024, by Thomas Matthew Crooks) are the only two former presidents to be injured in an assassination attempt. In all of these cases, the attacker’s weapon was a firearm, and all the subjects were male. Gerald Ford experienced two attempted assassinations with a woman as the assailant.
Many assassination attempts, both successful and unsuccessful, were motivated by a desire to change the policy of the American government.[1] Not all such attacks, however, had political reasons. Many other attackers had questionable mental stability, and a few were judged legally insane. Historian James W. Clarke suggests that most assassination attempters have been sane and politically motivated,[1] whereas the Department of Justice‘s legal manual claims that a large majority has been insane.[2] Some assassins, especially mentally ill ones, acted solely on their own, whereas those pursuing political agendas have more often found supporting conspirators. Most assassination plotters were arrested and punished by execution or lengthy detention in a prison or insane asylum.
The fact that the successor of a removed president is the vice president, and all vice presidents since Andrew Johnson have shared the president’s political party affiliation, may discourage such attacks, at least for policy reasons, even in times of partisan strife.[3] The third person in line, the Speaker of the House, as outlined in the Presidential Succession Act, is often of the opposing party, however.
Threats of violence against the president are often made for rhetorical or humorous effect without serious intent,[4] while credibly threatening the president of the United States has been a federal felony since 1917.[5]
