Throughout the history of the United States, 45 American presidents have been in power. The first of them was elected in 1789. This is George Washington (1732-1799). He served two terms as president from 1789 to 1797. The current President of the United States is Donald Trump. He was elected to high government office in November 2016. His powers expire on January 20, 2021. All presidents are worthy people. They honestly served the state and did everything to ensure that America became the most powerful power in the world.
But, while implementing reforms and transformations, the people's representatives often caused discontent in certain financial circles. Mentally ill individuals also showed increased interest in the top officials of the state. This provoked attempts on the lives of US presidents. The result was the assassination of 4 American leaders. Below is a list of the most famous assassination attempts.
The assassination of American presidents began on January 30, 1835. But the first pancake turned out to be lumpy. There were attempts to assassinate 7 US President Andrew Jackson (1767-1845). He was elected to the presidency in 1829. Left the White House in 1837. Andrew was the first representative of the Democratic Party of the United States to become chief executive.
This man, while in a high government position, carried out a number of very unpopular and even inhumane measures. He signed the Indian Removal Act. The indigenous inhabitants of the mainland were relocated to the so-called Indian Territories. These are the states of Arkansas and Oklahoma. And the ancestral fertile lands were seized by rich American landowners.
Thousands of people died during the resettlement. On new lands they also continued to die, as they found themselves in completely different climatic conditions. This can be described as genocide. But this was not the reason for the assassination attempt. Jackson abolished the Second Bank of the United States, a powerful private financial corporation. Instead, many private credit institutions appeared.
The result of this was an assassination attempt on the president. Right in the Capitol building on January 30, 1835, Andrew Johnson was approached by a certain Richard Lawrence. He pulled out a gun and pulled the trigger twice. But the weapon misfired. Richard Lawrence was an unemployed house painter. According to him, the reason for the assassination attempt was chronic lack of money. The painter considered the president to be the main culprit, since it was thanks to his activities that the company where Richard worked went bankrupt.
The series of murders and attempts on American presidents continued on April 14, 1865. The 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), was fatally killed by an assassin. This was the first president from the Republican Party. He assumed high government office in 1861. Under Lincoln, the Civil War between North and South occurred (1861-1865), and slavery was completely abolished throughout the country.
After being elected to a second term, Lincoln ended the war victoriously. The southerners were defeated. Thus, the new and progressive defeated the old and decaying. America has moved to a new stage of economic development, but the president himself paid for it with his life. On April 14, 1865, literally 5 days after the end of the war, actor John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865) shot the president in the head. It happened in a theater in Washington during the play “My American Cousin.”
The killer managed to escape from the crime scene. But on April 26, the police caught up with him in Virginia. Booth tried to resist arrest and was shot by police sergeant Boston Corbett. The president himself died on April 15 without regaining consciousness. Lincoln is considered a national hero of the American people.
The next victim was the 20th US President James Garfield (1831-1881). He was elected to the presidency in March 1881. Already on July 2 of the same year, he was seriously wounded by a shot in the back at a railway station in Washington. An attempt was made on his life by a certain Charles Guiteau (1841-1882), a supporter of the ultra-right movement.
It is interesting that the killer actively campaigned for Garfield during the election campaign. He hoped that his efforts would be counted, and the elected head of state would appoint him to a responsible post. However, the expectations of this vain man were not met. There was no place for him on the presidential team. Charles harbored a grudge, and its consequence was a fatal shot.
The president died on September 19, 1881. The cause of death was improper treatment. Doctors were unable to remove the bullet, but introduced an infection into the body. Whether this was done intentionally or not is unknown. As for the murderer, he was hanged on June 30, 1882. At the time of his execution he was 40 years old.
The assassinations of American presidents continued at the very beginning of the 20th century. The victim was the 25th President of the United States, William McKinley (1843-1901). He is a Republican and was elected head of state in 1896. In 1900 he was re-elected for a second term. Mortally wounded on September 5, 1901 in Buffalo (New York) while attending the Pan-American Exhibition. The killer is Leon Czolgosz (1873-1901). A native of Prussia, American anarchist.
He shot the president in the stomach. The result was gangrene, and William McKinley died on September 14. This death brought grief to the entire American people. The assassinated president was identified with Lincoln. The killer found his death on October 29, 1901 in the electric chair.
One of the most prominent US presidents is Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919). He held the highest government position from 1901 to 1909. This is the 26th President of America. The attempt on his life happened on October 14, 1912. At this time, Roosevelt was not the head of state, but participated in the election campaign for the presidency, seeking to become the 28th president.
Before starting a speech at a rally in Milwaukee (Wisconsin), Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest by John Schrank, a mentally unstable man. Despite the injury, the presidential candidate gave a speech that lasted 90 minutes. They did not remove the bullet, as this would only worsen the health condition. She remained in Roosevelt's body until his death in 1919.
They also tried to assassinate 32 US Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945). This is an outstanding personality. It was Franklin Roosevelt who provided invaluable assistance to the USSR during the war with Nazi Germany. He abolished Prohibition, which dealt a serious blow to the mafia, as it lost huge profits. The assassination attempt on this outstanding personality was made on February 15, 1933 by the anarchist Giuseppe Zangarra. This happened after the presidential elections, but even before the inauguration. An unpleasant incident occurred in the city of Miami.
The future president was saved by a simple American woman. When the killer raised his gun to shoot, the courageous woman hit the criminal on the arm. As a result, the bullet went sideways and hit a congressman standing nearby. He was wounded, but Roosevelt remained safe and sound.
Harry Truman (1884-1972) is known throughout the world primarily because, on his orders, atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the former USSR he is known as the initiator of the Cold War and the Korean War. This is the 33rd President of the United States. He held his high post from 1945 to 1953.
The assassination attempt on Harry Truman occurred on November 1, 1950. At this time he was in his personal residence. The attackers were Puerto Ricans Griselio Torresola and Oscar Colazzo. These two nationalists opened fire on the guards with machine guns and tried to enter the house. As a result of the shootout, the first attacker was killed and Colazzo was seriously wounded. The court sentenced him to the electric chair, but Truman showed mercy by replacing the death penalty with life imprisonment.
The assassinations of American presidents continued in the second half of the 20th century. The most mysterious murder occurred on November 22, 1963. The victim was the 35th President of the United States, John Kennedy (1917-1963). This is the first head of state who was born in the 20th century. The inauguration took place on January 20, 1961.
The young president contrasted his political and economic course with large industrial corporations. He forced them to lower their prices. This caused discontent in powerful circles. Kennedy supported Martin Luther King in his fight for black rights. Made concessions to the USSR by removing nuclear missiles from Turkey. This removed the military tension that arose as a result of the Cuban Missile Crisis. But at the same time, the authority of the communist power increased, which caused discontent in the Pentagon.
John Kennedy ruined relations with many of the powers that be. The result was a political conspiracy. It involved the Pentagon, the CIA, the FBI and the mafia. It was subsidized by powerful financial monopolies. The President would not have been killed if he had not expressed a desire to run for a second term. No one was going to tolerate the extravagant actions of young Kennedy for another 4 years.
On November 22, 1963, during a trip to Dallas, Texas, John Kennedy was assassinated in front of many thousands of people. The security showed amazing carelessness. While the president was being shot from rifles, not a single bodyguard even moved. That is, the Secret Service was also part of the conspiracy.
All the blame was placed on a figurehead who at one time lived in the USSR. This is Lee Harvey Oswald (1939-1963). Allegedly, he single-handedly killed the US President, sitting with a rifle on the top floor of the book depository. There are many inconsistencies and dark spots in this criminal case. Oswald himself was killed by nightclub owner Jack Ruby on November 24. That is, 2 days after the assassination of the president. He killed right in the police station in front of many people.
Jack Ruby is a mafia man. This is evidenced at least by his activities in the field of entertainment business. The assassination of Kennedy was led by a certain Hunt, a CIA officer. Five years later, he also led the assassination of Robert Kennedy, John’s brother. But all these facts were obtained not as a result of the official investigation, but by independent researchers of the most notorious murder of the 20th century.
38 President Gerald Ford (1913-2005) had 2 assassination attempts. This is the only head of state who was not popularly elected to the post of vice president and president. In 1973, he was appointed vice president following the resignation of Spiro Agnew. In 1974, he became president due to the resignation of the 37th US President Nixon. He remained in high office until January 20, 1977.
On September 5, 1975, Gerald Ford was shot by Lynette Fromme. She was a member of a terrorist gang. The gun misfired. A little over 2 weeks passed, and on September 21, Ford was shot again. This happened in Los Angeles. Sarah Jane Moore tried to carry out the assassination attempt. She was one of the activists of the left movement. The woman fired a shot, but missed. The President was not injured.
40 US President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) was assassinated on March 30, 1981 in Washington. This happened 2 months after the inauguration. Reagan was leaving the hotel after meeting with members of the construction union. Naturally, a crowd gathered to gaze at the head of state.
Suddenly, a young man rushed towards the president and fired 6 shots. In addition to Reagan, 3 more people were wounded. The President was hit in the lung by a bullet. But it was not a direct hit. First, a red-hot piece of metal hit the armored glass of the limousine, and then ricocheted and hit the head of state.
Ronald Reagan was operated on and returned to his duties. The criminal's name was John Hinckley. He worked as a disc jockey and suffered from mental illness. The man was placed in a psychiatric clinic, where he is still located.
30 assassination attempts were being prepared against 42 US President Bill Clinton (born 1946). 95 people were detained. All of them turned out to be mentally ill people. The assassination attempts occurred between 1993 and 1995.
However, not only killers pose a danger to the powers that be. No less a threat sometimes comes from women. Here we can name Monica Lewinsky, who, while working as an intern at the White House, entered into an intimate relationship with the head of state.
This ugly story happened in 1996, and the details became known in 1998. The press immediately fanned the scandal, which gave rise to Clinton's impeachment proceedings. Fortunately, he escaped with fear and a fine of 25 thousand dollars. But the reputation of the Democratic Party was tarnished, and the Republicans won the next presidential election.
The 43rd President George W. Bush (born 1943) was also blacklisted. The assassination attempt took place on May 10, 2005 in Tbilisi. Georgian citizen Harutyunyan threw a grenade towards the stage that was built on Freedom Square. It did not explode by pure chance, as it was tightly wrapped in a red handkerchief, and the president remained safe and sound.
But the criminal managed to escape. He was detained only on July 20. A Polish photo reporter helped with this, who accidentally photographed the place from which the grenade was thrown. Harutyunyan was arrested near his home in Tbilisi. During his arrest, he killed one of the leaders of Georgian counterintelligence. On January 11, 2006, the Tbilisi City Court sentenced the terrorist to capital punishment - life imprisonment.
In 2007, Jordanian police uncovered a plot against George W. Bush. He was supposed to visit the country in November, but the attackers were arrested back in March. They planned to blow up the US embassy while the president was there.
At the end of August 2008, an assassination attempt was being prepared in Denver on presidential candidate Barack Obama (b. 1961). The pre-election convention of the Democratic Party was taking place in the city at that time. The FBI managed to arrest 3 attackers in time, who categorically did not want an African American to take part in the elections.
Let's hope that the assassinations of American presidents are history. Still, the work of special secret services that ensure the safety of government leaders is improving every year. And therefore the likelihood of a successful assassination attempt is steadily decreasing. Although, who knows. Terrorists also do not stand still and come up with more and more sophisticated ways to destroy people.
To be honest, I didn’t quite clearly imagine that there were not two violently killed presidents in the United States (Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy, about whom everyone knows, especially Kennedy), but several more...
At the moment, there are already 4 of them. So the tradition of the Amers in eliminating unwanted presidents has a long history...
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in US Presidents Victims at the Hands of Assassins.
I have always been interested in the topic of the leaders of the United States of America - there were a lot of really interesting people there. But we know little about them.
If you go out into the street and ask a simple question: “how many American Presidents died in a violent way?”, then probably the majority will immediately remember JFK, that is, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Some, after thinking a little more, will also name Abraham Lincoln, perhaps even remembering the name and profession of his killer.
And many are surprised if we say that in fact there were not 2, but as many as 4, who died at the hands of the assassins of American Presidents.
It’s just that, unlike Kennedy and “Honest Abe,” the other two are less known among us. These are William McKinley Jr. and James Abram Garfield.
William McKinley is the 25th President of the United States and the last to serve in the Civil War. During the conflict between the Southerners and the Northerners, he was a major (temporary rank during the war) of the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. It’s clear that he’s not much of a strategist, but he pulled his weight honestly. And in general he was a consistent and stubborn person. Very often he followed the principle. After the war, he took up legal work in his native Ohio, and suddenly became involved in political life and became an ardent Republican. Part of the desire to move into politics was determined by his marriage to a wealthy girl and thus a noticeable strengthening of his own material base.
Major McKinley
He was elected to Congress, where he became a prominent figure, and in 1892, at the age of 49, he returned to his home state to become its governor. He was successful there too. And so much so that in 1897 he ran for the post of President and successfully won. Many Americans consider McKinley one of the most powerful Presidents in the history of the country. And this is not surprising - under him, the United States won the war against Spain and first “squeezed out” Cuba (established a protectorate), then Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. He also annexed Hawaii, which received the status of a “self-governing territory.” The ideas of isolationism were deeply buried in the ground, and the air of imperial ambition and expansion reigned in the United States.
A promising politician.
He brilliantly won the re-election in 1900, and his high ratings would allow him to run for a third term (although he stated that he would not do this). In general, he was a popular politician in the country. But not among everyone.On September 6, 1901, the President and his wife Ida decided to visit the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. Apparently, seeing the beauty of Niagara Falls put him in a somewhat lyrical mood, and the President decided to take part in an attraction questionable from a safety point of view - to personally greet everyone with a strong handshake.
The President with the First Lady
A certain Leon Frank Czolgosz, 28 years old, the son of a Polish immigrant, also joined the queue that lasted many hours. Fascinated by anarchist ideas, Czolgosz apparently decided to go down in history (his other motives, which he spoke about later, were not very convincing) and kill the President. Considering that the security of the first person of the state was extremely bad, he almost succeeded. After calmly standing in line for more than 4 hours, he approached McKinley and extended his left hand for a handshake, while his right hand was wrapped in bandages, as if he had an injury or a fracture. The President smiled and wanted to shake the young man’s left hand, when he suddenly received 2 shots at point-blank range - a revolver was hidden in his wrapped hand. Czelgosz would have shot more and finished off McKinley if the man standing behind him in line had not hit the killer on the head, and the nimble dark-skinned servant had not hung on his arm. The security responded, as always, extremely sluggishly and unprofessionally. The first bullet hit McKinley's button and ricocheted off without causing any harm to anyone, but the second bullet hit the President's stomach and lodged in his back muscles.
L.F. Czolgosz
Either the medicine was so primitive, or McKinley was treated disgustingly, but the operation to remove the bullet was unsuccessful, and gangrene began to burn the damaged internal organs. William McKinley Jr. died from her on September 14, 1901.
Leon Frank Czolgasz was sentenced to the electric chair and executed on October 29, 1901.
In memory of McKinley, the highest point in all of North America (6,130 meters above sea level), located in Alaska, was named (and you, dear friends, probably studied it at school :-)) And also his profile was depicted on banknotes that are now out of use at 500 dollars. Well, that is, if you don’t count the various monuments and others like that.
500 dollar bill
If many have heard of McKinley, at least thanks to a course in geography for the 6th grade, then the name of the 20th President of the United States, James Garfield, is certainly known to few of us.
Nevertheless, he was the smartest man, and even I would not be afraid of such a word, outstanding. Truly harmonious personality development.
James Garfield is 16 years old.
Born on November 19, 1831 in Ohio into a very poor family as the 5th child. His father was a circus wrestler and soon died, so the entire burden of raising young children fell on the shoulders of his mother Eliza, and especially his Uncle Amos and Aunt Alpha. He was grateful to the latter all his life - they helped him a lot.
The time was difficult for the family and James was able to receive only the simplest primary education. He was forced to work since childhood in order to help his family. Janitor, bell ringer, carpenter, laborer, canal caretaker, loader - this is an incomplete list of the professions that he mastered. But since childhood, everyone noticed that the boy had a very sharp mind and a passion for self-education. He read all the books in a row and not only read, he mastered and rethought them. And very, very successful.
Future President
Just think about it, the young man was able to learn Latin and ancient Greek, and not just learn, but for the amusement of his friends, write with his right hand in Latin and with his left in Greek. He was strong in geometry, chemistry, and physics. By the end of his life, his personal library contained 3,000 volumes of various tomes and books.A real “diamond” - self-taught!
When he entered college, he graduated first in the university and was an example for everyone. He remained in the educational field, and quite unexpectedly became... a priest. By the way, as far as I understand, Garfield is the only American president who was a clergyman.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, James Garfield, an ardent apologist for northern ideas, formed a volunteer regiment in his native Ohio and participated in military operations (mainly in Kentucky). By the end of the war, he had risen to the rank of brigadier general and was chief of staff of one of the most prominent strategists, William Rosecrans. In general, whatever one may say, one of the heroes of the war.
War Hero
After the war, he was elected to Congress from the Republican Party, where he was highly respected. So big that in 1880 a unique and extraordinary event occurred. In the Presidential elections from his party, he supported Sherman, Grant or Blaine, but the party did not support them, but nominated Garfield. He won the election and became the 20th President of the United States, the only one in history chosen from members of the House of Representatives of Congress.
20th President
It’s hard to say how his presidency would have turned out - I think it would have been extremely good. But he was prevented by one half-crazed proud man. Two months after his inauguration, on July 2, 1881, he was wounded at a railroad station in Washington by a certain Charles Guiteau. This half-crazy unsuccessful lawyer, for some unclear reason, believed that he was worthy of the position of US Ambassador to France, and when quite understandably he did not receive such a position, he considered himself personally insulted and decided to take revenge.
Charles Guiteau
The wound was serious, but not fatal. But the doctors not only failed to cut out the bullet, but through several unsuccessful operations they worsened the patient’s condition and led to sepsis. From gangrene and blood poisoning, one of the most intellectual American presidents died on September 19 of the same year.
Thus, the duration of his reign was the second shortest among all US Presidents.
Have a nice time of day.
American police have arrested a Los Angeles man on charges of threatening to kill US President George W. Bush.
The first American president to be assassinated was Andrew Jackson. On January 30, 1835, in the Capitol building, 35-year-old painter Richard Lawrence approached him and, grabbing a pistol, tried to shoot twice, but the pistol misfired. The criminal was captured and stated that he was taking revenge on Jackson for being unemployed. The president himself claimed that the assassin was sent by his political opponents.
On April 14, 1865, the president was mortally wounded in a theater box in Washington and died the next day. Abraham Lincoln. US Secretary of State William Seward, who was sitting next to him, was wounded but survived. The killer was an actor, a supporter of the defeated Confederacy.
On July 2, 1881, at the Washington Station, the failed far-right politician Charles Guatier (Guiteau), suffering from a nervous breakdown, shot the president at point-blank range. James Garfield. On September 19, 1881, he died from general blood poisoning.
On September 6, 1911, the President was seriously wounded during the opening ceremony of the Pan-American Exposition in Chicago. William McKinley. Died on September 14. His killer was 28-year-old anarchist Leon Spolgots.
On October 14, 1912, an assassination attempt was made during a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Theodore Roosevelt. Despite being wounded in the chest, the president did not leave the podium and completed his speech to voters and only after that turned to the doctors. The attacker, John Schrank, was declared insane.
On February 15, 1933, shortly after winning the election but before his inauguration, an assassination attempt was made on Franklin. Delano Roosevelt. In Miami, Florida, he was shot by anarchist Giuseppe Zangarra. A woman standing nearby managed to hit the criminal in the hand at the time of the shot. Zangarra missed Roosevelt, but fatally wounded Chicago Mayor Anthony Cermak.
On November 1, 1950, an attempt was made to assassinate the President. Harry Truman at his residence on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. Two Puerto Rican nationalists made an attempt on his life. There was a three-minute shootout between the guards and the attackers, as a result of which the guard and one of the attackers were killed, and the second attacker was arrested.
On November 22, 1963, the US President was assassinated in Dallas. John Kennedy. According to the official version, the lone killer was former paratrooper Lee Harvey Oswald, who lived for several years in the capital of Belarus, Minsk. Two days later, Oswald was shot and killed in Dallas police custody by Jack Ruby as he was being taken to federal prison. This assassination attempt still remains one of the greatest mysteries of the twentieth century.
On February 22, 1974, an assassination attempt was made in Baltimore Richard Nixon. A gunman armed with a pistol stormed a Delta Airlines plane flying to Atlanta and, threatening to blow up the plane with all the passengers, ordered the pilots to fly towards the White House. He said he was going to kill President Nixon. After a shootout with the FBI special forces, the criminal shot himself. A homemade bomb was found in his briefcase.
In September 1975, two assassination attempts were made on the president. Gerald Ford. On September 5, in Sacramento, California, the president was shot by Lynette Fromme, a member of the Charles Manson terrorist gang. The gun was loaded, but it misfired. On September 21, as President Ford left his hotel in Los Angeles, he was shot by left-wing activist Sarah Jane Moore. A bullet fired from a 38-caliber pistol flew a meter from the president.
On March 30, 1981, in Washington, twenty-five-year-old disc jockey John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan, released after speaking at a construction union convention from the Washington Hilton Hotel. The bullet, having pierced the chest, passed one and a half centimeters from the president’s heart and lodged in the lung. It was only possible to remove it after a four-hour operation. In addition to Reagan, the White House press secretary, a Secret Service agent and a police officer were seriously injured. A forensic medical examination found Hinckley insane and sent him for compulsory treatment.
In April 1993, it became known about an assassination attempt planned on George H. W. Bush. American intelligence services uncovered a plot according to which the car of the then ex-president of America was to be blown up during a visit to Kuwait.
In the entire history of independent America, no president has had as many assassination attempts made as his Bill Clinton. Four attacks on the president’s life occurred only within 8 months (from September 12, 1993 to May 23, 1994). According to some sources, attempts were made on Clinton's life about 30 times; More than 80 people were detained on suspicion of attempted murder, most of them mentally ill.
Repeated assassination attempts were made on the current president George W. Bush.
On May 10, 2005, during Bush's speech on Freedom Square in Tbilisi, Georgian citizen Vladimir Harutyunyan threw a grenade towards the stage. It didn't explode by accident.
In March 2007, Jordanian military prosecutors announced the discovery of a plot to assassinate US President George W. Bush during his visit to the kingdom in November 2006. Three Jordanians intended to blow up the US and Danish embassies in Amman at a time when the American president would be in one of them.
In March 2007, Colombian intelligence services announced that they had information about an impending assassination attempt on George W. Bush during his visit to this country.
In June 2007, Bulgarian intelligence services reported a planned assassination attempt on the American president during his visit to the Bulgarian capital.
Abraham Lincoln, with his enacted reforms, defeated the southern slaveholders who had formed during Pierce's administration.
Under McKinley's leadership, grandiose colonial conquests took place. It was thanks to this that the Hawaiian Islands began to become part of America.
Woodrow Wilson raised America from its knees, making it one of the most powerful countries. During his reign, the US economy became the first in the world.
Truman signed the decision to drop nuclear bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. He was remembered by the people as a despotic barbarian ruler.
Johnson Lyndon started the Vietnam War. Years later, George Bush Sr. would decide on military action in different parts of the world. Bush Jr. will continue his policy by starting a war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Territorial merits of presidents
Initially, America was not such a big country. Over the 230 years of its existence, it has almost doubled its territory.
Many US presidents, an impressive list, have achieved significant expansion of American territory through reform and conquest. Under James Monroe, five states were added to the country. John Tyler achieved the entry of the state of Texas into the territory subject to the United States. Thanks to James Knox Polk, America was replenished with states such as Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Nevada. Later it was decided to annex the state of Colorado.
Under Zachary Taylor, the so-called gold rush began. It was during his tenure as president that gold deposits were discovered in the state of California.
At the instigation of James Buchanan, negotiations began with Russia on the annexation of Alaska. William McKinley, thanks to the conquests, appropriated the Philippines and Puerto Rico.
Coins depicting US presidents
The 1 cent coin features Abraham Lincoln in profile. This coin first saw the world in 1982 and was issued until 2008. On the other side is a mausoleum.
The five cents feature a bust of Jefferson. He was the third President of the United States. The reverse side is replete with images of the family estate Monticello.
Franklin Roosevelt left his image on the 10-cent coin. On the other side, a burning torch is drawn between the branches. George Washington immortalized his bust on a 25-cent coin. People remembered it with the inscription on the left side “In God We Trust” and the image of an eagle with outstretched wings. 50 cents are decorated with a portrait of John Kennedy. The anniversary issue of coins falls on 1976.
The $1 coin features Sacagawea with a child on his shoulder. The image is printed on both sides of the coin. US presidents, the list of which is quite large, contributed a lot to the development of the national currency. But not everyone deserved to be immortalized on a metal monetary equivalent. Images of the heads are imprinted not only on coins, but also on the national currency of America - the dollar.
Assassinated US Presidents
The list is small, but it was America that became famous for the death of its heads of state due to murder.
The first president to be assassinated was Andrew Jackson. Then the gun did not fire, and he remained alive.
Abraham Lincoln was shot in the theater and died the next day. James Garfield was shot at a Washington train station. William McKinley also did not escape violent death; he died 8 days after the assassination attempt in Chicago.
There was also an attempt to kill Theodore Roosevelt. It all ended with the president being wounded in the chest.
The most notorious assassination attempt was the assassination of John Kennedy. To this day it remains a mystery to the people.
Gerald Ford almost lost his life. The bullet flew only a few centimeters from the president.
According to media reports, over 30 attempts were made to take the life of Bill Clinton, and all of them ended unsuccessfully.
Film adaptation of the lives of presidents
Films about US presidents, the list of which is presented below, tell about the lives of heads of state. There are films based on real events.
In 1995, the world saw the film “The American President,” presenting the owner of the White House as a wonderful father and just a good family man.
In the same year, a work about the life of the 37th President of the United States, Nixon, was released. This is not the only film material made about the life of Richard Nixon. At the beginning of 2008, the premiere of the film “Frost vs. Nixon” took place.
A film about George W. Bush, based on real events, was released in 2008. It details his rise to power.
In 2012, President Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was released. The film is more fantasy than real film history. That same year, a biographical confession of President Lincoln was presented to the public. The film describes his life during the Civil War.
US presidents, a list of 44 individuals who have contributed to the development of the state, are part of its history.
50 years ago, on November 22, 1963 at 12.30, a murder occurred in the city of Dallas that changed the course of world history - the 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, died, who did everything to prevent the spread of the Cold War and the global nuclear apocalypse. It is worth noting that many government leaders were subject to assassination attempts, regardless of whether they were dictators or promoted the ideas of equality and humanism.
More than 100 pieces of shrapnel were removed from Adolf Hitler after the assassination attempt
The central figure of the Nazi Party simply could not help but attract the attention of the assassins. This man somehow mystically managed to avoid violent death. According to statistics, there were about 20 assassination attempts on Hitler, and at least two of them were carried out by the USSR during World War II.The first known attempt on Hitler's life occurred on March 1, 1932. Then, not far from Munich, four unknown persons fired at the train in which Hitler was traveling to give a speech to his supporters. The future Fuhrer was not injured.
The most famous assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler is the plot of July 20, 1944. The purpose of the conspiracy is to kill Hitler and sign peace with the Allied forces. An explosion occurred at Hitler's headquarters, located in the Görlitz forest near Rastenburg. The conspirators Keitel and Stauffenberg brought a briefcase containing an explosive device to a meeting attended by 23 people, which they placed under the table. The explosion occurred at 12.42. Four of those present were killed and some were injured. Hitler survived. About a hundred fragments were removed from him, he was temporarily deaf in one ear, he had a dislocated arm and the hair on the back of his head was singed. During the day the Fuhrer could not stand on his feet. On his orders, the execution of the conspirators was turned into humiliating torture and a film was made, which Hitler watched personally.
Joseph Stalin was always saved by security
Several major assassination attempts were prepared on Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. But none of them even ended with the wounding of the father of all nations - the leader’s security was at a very high level. So, in 1939, an assassination attempt was organized on Stalin in his homeland, in the Georgian city of Gori, where Stalin came on vacation. The security exposed the conspiracy of the Georgian Bolsheviks, who believed that Joseph Stalin had betrayed Lenin’s cause.It is known that in 1939 Germany decided to put an end to the head of the Soviet state by blowing up the Mausoleum. But the terrorists abandoned on the territory of the USSR disappeared into oblivion, and their fate is unknown today.
There is also an attempt to assassinate Stalin by a Soviet citizen. On November 6, 1942, at 2:30 p.m., a motorcade of government vehicles left the Kremlin. When the cortege reached Lobnoye Mesto, shots were fired. The security officers returned fire, and the Execution Ground was bombarded with grenades. The terrorist was wounded and surrendered. It turned out to be 33-year-old Savely Dmitriev, a corporal anti-aircraft gunner.
Abraham Lincoln was let down by his love of theater
The sixteenth President of the United States, leader of the Republican Party and liberator of slaves, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865. It happened in the guest box of the Ford Theater in Washington. During the play “My American Cousin,” John Wilkis Booth entered the presidential box and said, “Death to tyrants!” shot Lincoln in the back of the head with a pistol.
Thus the life of one of the greatest US presidents was tragically cut short. The President died the next day, and Booth shot himself to avoid falling into the hands of the police. All participants in the conspiracy were arrested and hanged.
It is worth noting that in memory of the great politician, fans annually hold a convention of the Lincoln Presenters Association in Ohio, where they gather.
Mahatma Gandhi, dying, forgave his killer
Mahatma Gandhi, an adherent of the theory of non-violence, happily survived the first assassination attempt and died from the second. On January 30, 1948, Nathuram Godse, a member of the Hindu Mahasabha, sneaked up to Gandhi during a traditional prayer in a crowd of pilgrims and fired three shots.
Two bullets passed through the abdominal cavity, and the third lodged in Gandhi’s heart, damaging his lung. Already dying, Gandhi managed to show with a gesture that he forgives the murderer.
Lenin left the bandits with a bottle of milk in his hands
Officially, there are at least three attempts on the life of leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The most famous is the assassination attempt that occurred on August 30, 1918 at the Michelson plant, when Fanny Kaplan fired three shots at the leader from a revolver. Doctors saved Lenin, but for a long time there was an opinion that the leader was poisoned.
On January 6, 1919, perhaps the most ridiculous assassination attempt took place. Koshelkov’s gang quite accidentally robbed the car in which Lenin was traveling to Sokolniki for the Yolka, organized at the Forest School. According to the recollections of witnesses, one of the attackers pulled out a pistol with the words: “Trick or treat!” Vladimir Ilyich showed his ID and said: “I am Ulyanov-Lenin.” But the bandits repeated the same phrase: “Trick or treat!” Ilyich had no money, so he took off his coat, got out of the car and continued on foot with a bottle of milk for his wife in his hands.
Theodore Roosevelt was saved from a bullet by his speech
American presidents have been attacked by assassins with enviable regularity. So, on October 14, 1912, there was one of several attempts on the life of the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. The president was shot with a pistol by John Schrank during his speech in Milwaukee. The assassin shot the president in the chest, but the bullet, having pierced his glasses case, fortunately got stuck in the president's speech, written on 50 sheets.
The President always put the sheets of speech under his jacket so as not to forget them or lose them anywhere. For this quite ordinary habit of Roosevelt, many of his acquaintances often condemned and made fun of the president. The President shocked everyone when, while seriously wounded, he insisted on finishing his speech before going to the hospital.
Reagan hit by ricochet
Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States and a politician from God, was assassinated on January 30, 1981. Today it is impossible to imagine how an armed, mentally unstable person passed through 2 rings of security and came close to the American president. John Hinckley succeeded. He called out to Ronald Reagan, who was leaving the hotel to get into a limousine, and managed to shoot him with a Colt .22 caliber 6 times almost point-blank.
True, one of the bullets ricocheted off the armored glass of the car and hit the president in the chest. Despite his impressive age and difficult surgery, Reagan quickly recovered and returned to his duties as president.
John Kennedy: the death that ended the curse
On November 22, 1963, John Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States and the first president of this country born in the 20th century, was shot dead. This happened in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald fired his M91/38 6.5 mm Carcano carbine twice, hitting him twice in the head. One bullet hit the back of the head, the second - the president's throat. Kennedy died on the spot. John Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, and an eternal flame was lit in his memory.
There is a legend regarding the assassinations of American presidents. Allegedly, the dying leader of the Shawnee tribe, Tecumseh, uttered a curse according to which every US president who took office in a year evenly divisible by 20 would die before the end of his term. The tribal leader cursed the US presidents for violating the agreement between the newcomers and the natives by the “white” man. US presidents were cursed to the seventh generation. John Kennedy became the seventh president of this country to be assassinated.
