Presidential Assassination Attempts

  • Abraham Lincoln (Successful)

    Abraham Lincoln (Successful)
    16th President Abraham Lincoln was shot point-blank in the head at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. by John Wilkes Booth. The assassination was part of an unsuccessful conspiracy to revive the Confederacy by killing the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The other two officials survived.
  • James A. Garfield (Successful)

    James A. Garfield (Successful)
    20th President James A. Garfield was shot point-blank by Charles J. Guiteau twice with the first grazing his shoulder and the second hitting him in the back at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station In Washington D.C.. He died two and a half months later in bed on September 19th of the same year.
  • William McKinley (Successful)

    William McKinley (Successful)
    25th President William McKinley was shot in the abdomen at the Pan-American Exposition in the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist. He died 8 days later on the 14th of gangrene.
  • Theodore Roosevelt (Wounded)

    Theodore Roosevelt (Wounded)
    Former 26th President Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest by John Schrank while campaigning for a third presidential term in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The bullet was largely slowed due to having to pass through a glasses case and 50-page speech in Roosevelt's jacket pocket, and Roosevelt carried the bullet in his chest until the day he died.
  • John F. Kennedy (Successful)

    John F. Kennedy (Successful)
    John F. Kennedy was shot twice in Dallas, Texas during a presidential motorcade at Dealey Plaza by former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald, first in the back, and second in the head. At the time, he was in the a limousine with his wife and Governor of Texas John Connally.
  • Ronald Reagan (Wounded)

    Ronald Reagan (Wounded)
    40th President Ronald Reagan was shot at by John Hinckley Jr. at the Washington Hilton in Washington D.C.. A bullet ricocheted through his limousine door punctured his lung, but he survived. His Press Secretary, James Brady, however, was fatally wounded.