Ex-president Donald Trump He is not the first former president or American president to be assassinated: attacks on leaders have been numerous throughout the country’s history, but not since 1981 has an event of this severity been recorded.

TWENTIETH CENTURY

Ronald Reagan: In 1981, then-President Ronald Reagan had only been in office for a few months when was shot dead while leaving the Hilton Hotel in Washington.The assailant, a disturbed fan of actress Jodie Foster, shot him with a bullet that passed through his armpit and lodged in his lung, missing his heart and leaving him unharmed. Less than a month later, Reagan returned to the White House.

John F. Kennedy: The most shocking attack of modern times occurred two decades ago, on November 22, 1963, in this case in Dallas, when President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was in the limousine convertible waving to the crowd, and was fatally shot from a nearby apartment by Lee Harvey Oswald. The assassin was fatally wounded two days later, and the conspiracy that led to Kennedy’s death has never been clarified.

Theodore RooseveltIn 1912, when Roosevelt had left the presidency but was still an extremely popular man, he was ambushed outside the Gilpatrick Hotel in Milwaukee by a man named John Schrank, a tavern owner and supposedly unstable. The bullet remained in Roosevelt’s chest, without reaching his heart.In fact, “Teddy” lived for another seven years.

William McKinley: In 1901, President McKinley was attending a concert in Buffalo, New York, when He was shot twice in the stomach. an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz, who later wrote that he killed McKinley because he was “an enemy of good working people.”

XIX CENTURY

Abraham Lincoln: In 1865, President Lincoln went to Ford’s Theatre Washington when he was shot in the head from behind by a Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln’s assassination did not prevent the Federals from winning the war a month later.

James GarfieldIn 1881, newly elected President James A. Garfield was at the Potomac Station in Washington when he was shot by Charles Guiteau, who turned out to be a mentally ill man. Garfield was shot twice but survived. Another 10 weeks before I die.

In addition to the above-mentioned presidents, the secret services foiled numerous assassination plots against other sitting presidentsin more or less complex plans. These plans, or at least those that became known, targeted Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon, some of the most famous people of the last century. (EFE)

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