US Presidents Assassination Attempts

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Hint	Answer
1835 - the gun of would-be assassin Richard Lawrence misfired	Andrew Jackson
1861 - Plan to assassinate president on the way to his inauguration	Abraham Lincoln
1864 - A lone rifle shot missed the president's head by inches	Abraham Lincoln
1865 - president shot in fords theatre, died the next day	Abraham Lincoln
1881 - president shot 4 months into his term, died several weeks later	James Garfield
1901 - President was shot whilst visiting the Pan-American Exposition	William McKinley
1909 - President was nearly shot at a historic meeting between the USA and Mexico	William Taft
1912 - President was shot at, whilst giving a speech in Milwaukee	Theodore Roosevelt
1928 - An Argentinian assassination attempt was foiled on this president-elect	Herbert Hoover
1933 - President shot at 5 times, all bullets missed but the Chicago Mayor was killed	Franklin D. Roosevelt
1947 - A number of letter bombs were sent to the White House	Harry S Truman
1950 - A violent attack by two supporters of Puerto Rican independence	Harry S Truman
1960 - President-elect was targeted by a postal-worker who didn't like his religious beliefs	John F Kennedy
1963 - President shot whilst riding in a car in Dallas	John F Kennedy

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1972 - The assassin was put-off by the strong security around the president	Richard Nixon
1974 - involved attempting to hijack a place, so it could be flown into the White House	Richard Nixon
1975 - this president has two assassination attempts in the same month	Gerald Ford
1979 - Secret service agents detained a man with a starter pistol, just before the President was about to give a speech	Jimmy Carter
1981 - President was shot by a Jodie Foster fan	Ronald Reagan
1993 - A car bomb was located before the president went for a ride in Kuwait	George H W Bush
1994 - a bad year for this president, three different plans were foiled when it came to assassination	Bill Clinton
1996 - The president's motorcade was diverted to avoid a bombing attempt	Bill Clinton
2001 - An accountant shot at the White House, while the president was inside	George W Bush
2005 - The would-be assassin threw a grenade, lucky for all involved it didn't go off	George W Bush
2009 - There was a plot to assassinate the President at the Alliance of Civilizations summit in Istanbul	Barack Obama
2011 - The White House was hit with several rounds from a semi-automatic rifle, the biggest casualty was a window	Barack Obama
2011 - A letter was sent, laced with ricin.	Barack Obama