16 september 2024 – De Amerikaanse politieke geschiedenis is doorspekt met incidenten van moordpogingen op presidenten of kandidaten voor een ambt, soms met succes.
De vermeende moordpogingen op voormalig president Donald Trump in juli en september 2024 zijn slechts de meest recente daden van politiek geweld die de Amerikaanse geschiedenis hebben gevormd:
Sep 2024: Donald Trump
West Palm Beach, Florida
Ryan Routh lays in wait to shoot Trump but is spotted by Secret Service and apprehended.
Jul 2024: Donald Trump
Butler, Pennsylvania
Thomas Crooks shoots Trump in ear at rally, before being killed by Secret Service.
Jun 2016: Donald Trump
Las Vegas, Nevada
Michael Sandford tries to grab gun from police officer and kill Trump at rally.
Mar 1981: Ronald Reagan
Washington DC
John Hinckley Jr. fires six shots at Reagan, hitting him and three others – they survive.
Sep 1975: Gerald Ford
San Francisco, California
Sara Moore opens fires on Ford with revolver, just missing his head.
Sep 1975: Gerald Ford
Sacramento, California
Lynette Fromme, follower of cult leader Charles Manson, tries and fails to shoot Ford.
Jun 1968: Robert F. Kennedy
Los Angeles, California
Sirhan Sirhan shoots and kills Kennedy as he campaigns in Democratic primaries.
Nov 1963: John F. Kennedy
Dallas, Texas
Lee Harvey Oswald shoots and kills president in his motorcade – murdered two days later.
Oct 1912: Theodore Roosevelt
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
John Schrank shoots former president who is saved by bullet hitting his speech notes and metal glasses case.
Sep 1901: William McKinley
Buffalo, New York
Leon Czolgosz shoots president who later dies. Theodore Roosevelt ascends to presidency.
Jul 1881: James Garfield
Washington DC
Charles Guiteau shoots president, who dies of his wounds two months later.
Apr 1865: Abraham Lincoln
Washington DC
John Wilkes Booth shoots and kills president – himself later killed after two-week manhunt.
