Assassinations with firearms against US presidents, 4 of them have been executed

2024-07-14 10:20:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

A gun attack took place on Saturday during a rally of President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania. A 20-year-old Matthew Crooks fired a gun at the former president, wounding him in one ear.

Trump is in good health, out of danger. A Trump supporter was killed by gunfire, and 2 others were injured. The author was executed by the security forces.

This is not the first assassination attempt on presidents or presidential candidates in the US.

Many presidents and former presidents and presidential candidates have been attacked in US history, according to a CNN report.

-President Andrew Jackson: In the pre-Civil War era, he was shot while attending a funeral at the Capitol. The attacker fired twice.

- President Theodore Roosevelt: Like Trump, he was trying to get his old job back during the campaign of 1912. He was shot on his way to a speech in Milwaukee by a man.

-President Franklin D. Roosevelt: He was president-elect when a man shot him in Miami in 1933. The gunman, Guiseppe Zangara, was unable to capture Roosevelt, but he did kill Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak.

-President Harry Truman : He assumed the presidency after Roosevelt died and was shot in front of the White House by Puerto Rican nationalists in 1950.

-Alabama Governor George Wallace: The segregationist ran for president for a third time in 1972 and was shot after a campaign event outside Washington. The shots left him paralyzed from the waist down.

-President Gerald Ford: He faced two consecutive assassination attempts in 1975.

-President Ronald Reagan: He was shot in 1981 outside the Washington Hilton after giving a speech. His press secretary, James Brady, was more seriously injured than Reagan.

-President Barack Obama : An Idaho man was charged with trying to kill Obama when he opened fire on the White House in 2011.

-Four presidents - Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy, are assassinated. /CNA