Assassinations and Attempts
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| Abraham Lincoln | Shot by John Wilkes Booth in 1865 in Ford's Theatre
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| William Seward | Escaped. Attempted by Lewis Powell in 1865
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| James Garfield | Shot by Charles Guiteau in 1881 in DC
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| William McKinley | Shot by Leon Czolgosz in 1901 in Buffalo
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| Theodore Roosevelt | Escaped. Attempt in 1912 in Milwaukee
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| Archduke Francis Ferdinand | Shot by Gavrilo Princip in 1914 in Sarajevo. Sparked WWI
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| FD Roosevelt | Escaped at Miami. Shot by Giuseppe Zangara in 1933
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| Huey P. Long | Shot by Dr. Carl Weiss in 1935 in Baton Rouge
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| Leon Trotsky | Axed by Ramon Mercador in 1940 in Mexico
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| Harry Truman | Escaped. Attempted by Puerto Rican Nationalists in 1950 when The Blair House was stormed
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| John Kennedy | Shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 in Dallas
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| Lee Harvey Oswald | Shot by Jack Ruby in 1963
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| Malcolm X ; Actual last name? | Malcolm Little Shot at a rally in 1965
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| Martin Luther King Jr. | Shot by James Earl Ray in 1968 in Memphis
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| Robert Kennedy | Shot by Sirhan Sirhan in 1968 in LA
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| George Wallace | Gov. of Alabama; Shot and was paralyzed by Arthur Herman Bremer in 1972
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| Gerald Ford | Attempted twice, once by Lenette Squeaky Fromm in Sacramento and once by Sara Jane Moore in San Francisco in 1975
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| Aldo Moro | Prime Minister of Italy, Kidnapped and killed by the Red Brigade in 1978
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| John Lennon | Shot by Mark David Chapman in 1980
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| Ronald Reagan | Shot in the lung by John Hinckley Jr. in 1981 in DC; He was obsessed with Jodi Foster
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| Anwar Sadat | Shot by rebel soldiers in 1981
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| Indira Gandhi | Shot by her bodyguards in 1984
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| Olof Palme | PM of Sweden Shot while walking home in 1986
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