DETAIL NEWS – Former president and presidential candidate Donald Trump was shot during a rally speech. Trump, whose face was covered in blood, took his place on the list of US presidents who were assassinated and survived. George W. Bush was also planned to be assassinated during a rally speech, just like Trump. Assassinations and attempts against other presidents and presidential candidates come to mind.
US PRESIDENTS KILLED IN OFFICE
Four U.S. presidents have been assassinated while in office: Abraham Lincoln in 1865, James A. Garfield in 1881, William McKinley in 1901, and John F. Kennedy in 1963.
THERE WERE SURVIVORS OF ATTACKS BEFORE TRUMP TOO
Three US presidents have been injured in assassination attempts. Before Trump; Theodore Roosevelt was attacked in 1912 after leaving office, and Ronald Reagan was attacked while in office in 1981.
Ronald Reagan
- In 2005, a hand grenade was thrown at US President George W. Bush while he was speaking at a rally in Tbilisi with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. The handkerchief was wrapped too tightly, so the pin on the grenade remained attached and the bomb did not explode. Bush was thus saved from the attack.
THEY ALL OPENED GUNS
In all attacks to kill U.S. presidents, the attackers used firearms.
LINCOLN WAS WATCHING THEATRE
In the first assassination attempt on a president in the country’s history, Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head while watching a theater play in Washington. Lincoln, who was injured, died the next day. Lincoln thus became the first president to be assassinated in US history.
According to details provided by AA; Two years before the assassination, during the Civil War, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which granted freedom to slaves within the Confederacy, and his support for black rights was cited as the reason for his assassination.
TRUMP WAS SHOT WHILE SPEAKING
Former President Trump, one of the candidates for the November 5 presidential election, was attacked at the podium while speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania.
While Trump was injured in the ear in the attack, the attacker, who was reportedly 20 years old, was killed and 1 person at the rally lost his life.
US PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ARE ALSO TARGETED BY ATTACKS
In the United States, where armed violence is a frequent occurrence, presidential candidates as well as presidents have been the targets of assassinations and attacks.
Former Attorney General and Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was killed in a shooting in Los Angeles minutes after delivering his victory speech in the 1968 California primary. Kennedy was a U.S. senator from New York and the brother of President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated 5 years earlier.
In 1972, the target of the gun attack was former Alabama Governor and presidential candidate George Wallace. Wallace was paralyzed from the waist down as a result of the attack during an election campaign in Maryland.
