WASHINGTON (AP) — Before Saturday’sapparent attempted assassinationof former President Donald Trump, there have been multiple instances of political violence targeting U.S. presidents, former presidents and major party presidential candidates. A look at some of the assa...
There is a bloody history of US presidential assassination attempts: four US presidents have been killed, others targeted, and a number of candidates as well. The attempted assassination of Donald Trump, who escaped with a bullet wound to his ear while...
13 American presidents who escaped attempts on their livesÁine Cain
Of the 44 men who have served as President of the United States, eight died while in office, while 31 passed away after their term had ended. Five presidents, including incumbent President Donald Trump, are still alive today. The most common state in which U.S. presidents have died was ...
(Senator), 1973-97 Editor-in-Chief of The Mirror, 1993 Acting Permanent Representative to the United Nations. In 1997 her husband, President Dr. Cheddi Bharat Jagan, died, and she was chosen to replace the Premier, who had become President. Janet was chosen as her party's candidate in ...
AfterOlympus Has Fallen(andLondon Has Fallen) featured multiple assassination attempts, it's not clear if terrorists just really hate Aaron Eckhart's President Asher, or if his lead Secret Service Agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) just invites trouble wherever he goes. Considering Asher's successo...
But now we are in the part of our list where just about every President finds himself amidst convoluted conspiracies, coups, and good old fashioned assassination attempts. Listen, being a movie President is not an easy job, and these guy handled themselves just fine, given the circumstances. ...
With his students lacking cultural sensitivity and publishers rejecting his novels, believing them not to be "Black enough," Monk returns to his hometown where he witnesses a new young Black author who has created an instant best seller. As he attempts to ignore the success of another, he ...
Interestingly, the last four popular vote losers who won the Electoral College were all Republicans: Rutherford B. Hayes (1876), Benjamin Harrison (1888), George W. Bush (2000), and Donald Trump (2016). The first and only other person in this category is John Quincy Adams (1824) from a...
By the time Eisenhower left office, open fighting had broken out between Diem’s forces and the so-called Viet Cong, communist insurgents in the South who were backed by North Vietnam. Each side employed brutal tactics, including torture and political assassinations. ...