Producer: Peuli Bakshi
Shots were fired during a rally speech by Donald Trump on July 13, which was a possible assassination attempt on him. Here are some notable examples of shootings involving US presidents or presidential candidates.
President Reagan was shot and seriously wounded as he left an event at the Hilton Hotel in Washington. The incident boosted Reagan’s popularity.
President Ford was left unscathed in two separate assassination attempts by women in September 1975, both in California and within a span of just 17 days.
While campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, Wallace was shot four times and paralyzed for life at a shopping mall in Laurel, Maryland.
President John F. Kennedy’s brother Robert, who was running for the Democratic presidential nomination, was shot and killed at the Ambassador Hotel in LA, California.
Riding in his motorcade with his wife Jackie, President Kennedy was assassinated by a former marine, Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas.
As president-elect, FDR was the target of an assassination attempt in Miami, Florida. He was unharmed, but Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was killed in the attack.
Like Trump, Teddy Roosevelt was running for the White House as a former president when he was shot in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a popular actor and Confederate sympathizer while watching a play called “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater in Washington.