Donald Trump’s shooting follows a history of attacks on US presidents and candidates

Former President Donald Trump was shot during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, marking another incident of political violence in US history. Trump was grazed by a bullet but is fine. The attacker was killed by Secret Service agents, with one other person at the event also dying. Authorities are investigating it as an assassination attempt. This follows a long history of attacks on US presidents and candidates..Sign up for your early morning brew of the BizNews Insider to keep you up to speed with the content that matters. The newsletter will land in your inbox at 5:30am weekdays. Register here..Join us for BizNews' first investment-focused conference on Thursday, 12 September, in Hermanus, featuring top experts like Frans Cronje, Piet Viljoen, and more. Get insights on electricity and exploiting SA's gas bounty from new and familiar faces. Register here..By Gregory Korte.The shooting of former President Donald Trump Saturday was only the most recent act of political violence that has often shaped US history. .___STEADY_PAYWALL___.Trump said he was "fine" after a bullet grazed his ear during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The attacker was killed by Secret Service agents, and one other person at the event died. Authorities are investigating Saturday's attack as an assassination attempt..Donald Trump is surrounded by Secret Service agents during a campaign event at Butler Farm Show Inc. in Butler, Pennsylvania, US, on July 13..The killings of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield and William McKinley eventually led to Secret Service protection, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy shocked the nation and resulted in even tighter security around the president. .Still, Gerald Ford was the target of two high-profile attempts on his life in the span of 18 days, and Ronald Reagan was seriously wounded by a gunman's bullet early in his presidency in 1981..Nearly every modern president has been targeted. The Secret Service has foiled nearly all of those attempts, few of which resulted in injury..Political violence has taken the lives of leaders around the world, as well, including Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme..Even before Saturday's incident, polls showed voters worried about possible violence surrounding this year's presidential election. A Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll of swing-state in May found half harbored those fears, including roughly equal shares of Democrats and Republicans. And they're even more common among independents, the poll found..Here's a look at some previous attempts on US presidents' and presidential candidates' lives:.Read more: 🔒 Trump's social media fury against trial judges triggers widespread calls for violence.Donald Trump.During Trump's 2016 campaign, a 20-year-old British man attempted to grab a gun from a Las Vegas police officer at a Trump rally there. He later told police he was trying to kill Trump, and pleaded guilty to federal firearms and disruption offenses..Ronald Reagan.On Mar. 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. fired six shots at the president in Washington, hitting Reagan and three others. The president was seriously wounded but recovered after emergency surgery. The other three victims also survived. Hinckley was immediately arrested and kept in institutional psychiatric care until 2016, 12 years after Reagan's death..Gerald Ford.Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson, attempted to shoot Ford in Sacramento, California on Sept. 5, 1975. Three weeks later, Sara Jane Moore fired a shot at Ford in San Francisco, making the two women the most prominent female would-be assassins in US history. .Robert F. Kennedy .Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed Kennedy, then a candidate in the Democratic primaries, in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, less than five years after the assassination of his elder brother. Sirhan was sentenced to life in prison. Kennedy's son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is running as an independent presidential candidate in 2024..Read more: Why do the elites hate Trump? – Andrew Kenny.John F. Kennedy.On Nov. 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed the president in Dallas, Texas. The assassination continues to spark debates about whether Oswald acted alone, after Oswald was killed by restaurateur Jack Ruby two days later..Theodore Roosevelt.Roosevelt was a former president campaigning to return to the White House when he was shot giving a speech in Milwaukee on Oct. 14, 1912. Protected by the 50-page text of his speech and a glasses case in his pocket, he continued his address and recovered, eventually losing to Woodrow Wilson. Would-be assassin John Schrank was found legally insane and institutionalized until his death..William McKinley .McKinley was shot in Buffalo, New York on Sept. 6, 1901, and later died from his wounds, elevating Vice President Roosevelt to the presidency. Anarchist Leon Czolgosz was convicted of the assassination and put to death. .James Garfield.Garfield was shot in Washington July 2, 1881. He died from complications from the wounds two months later. Writer and lawyer Charles Guiteau was convicted of the crime and sentenced to death..Abraham Lincoln.Lincoln was shot and killed in Washington on April 14, 1865, by John Wilkes Booth, a well-known actor and Confederate sympathizer, who was killed after a manhunt that lasted nearly two weeks..Read also:.Bacher on June's market drivers – locally all about GNU; Trump Trade on Wall Street🔒 FT: The Trump Trade – investing after the Biden meltdown🔒 FT: Democrats panic as Biden stumbles in bad-tempered debate with Trump.© 2024 Bloomberg L.P.

Donald Trump’s shooting follows a history of attacks on US presidents and candidates

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