In US, a history of political violence, attempts to assassinate Presidents

Donald Trump was shot at on Saturday, during his campaign rally. However, this incident follows a history of political violence in the United States. Abraham Lincoln, shot by assailant John Wilkes Booth, was the first president to be assassinated while he was attending a performance of the comedy “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theatre in Washington in 1865. (Wikimedia Commons/Artist G. P. A. Healy - Left and T. M. McAllister - Right)

James Garfield was assassinated six months after taking charge of office in 1881. He was shot by Charles Guiteau when he was catching a train for New England at the station Washinton, news agency AP reported. Guiteau was found guilty and executed in June 1882. (Wikimedia Commons/Brady-Handy Photograph Collection - Left and A. Berghaus and C. Upham - Right)

William McKinley died a week after two bullets were lodged into his chest at point blank after a speech in Buffalo, New York. Leon F Czolgosz, an unemployed, 28-year-old Detroit resident, admitted to the shooting and was put to death in an electric chair in 1901, AP reported. (Wikimedia Commons/Frances Benjamin Johnston)

John F Kennedy was visiting Dallas in November 1963, with his wife First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, when a hidden assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, shot him with a high-powered rifle. He was later fatally shot by a Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby. (Wikimedia Commons/Walt Cisco)

In an attempted assassination bid, a hand grenade was thrown towards George W Bush at a rally in Tbilisi with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili in 2005. However, both the officials were behind a bulletproof vest, and no one was hurt in the incident. Assailant Vladimir Arutyunian was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. (Wikimedia Commons/Records of the White House Photo Office)

Andrew Jackson also faced an assassination attempt by Richard Lawrence on January 30, 1835. (Wikimedia Commons)

Theodore Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt while running for a third term in 1912. The assailant was identified as John Flammang Schrank. (Wikimedia Commons/Collection: The attempted assassination)

Franklin D Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt before taking office in 1933. In this case, the assailant was Giuseppe Zangara. (Wikimedia Commons/Records of the White House Photo Office)

Harry S Truman too survived an assassination attempt in 1950, by assailants Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, (Wikimedia Commons/Greta Kempton)

In 1974, Samuel Byck attempted to hijack a plane flying out of Baltimore with the intention of crashing it into the White House and killing Richard Nixon. Byck was killed by the police before he could carry out his plans. (Wikimedia Commons/Marion Doss)

Gerald Ford faced two assassination attempts within weeks in 1975 but was unhurt. Sara Jane Moore and Charles Manson disciple Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme were imprisoned and released in 2007 and 2009 respectively. (Wikimedia Commons/David Hume Kennerly)

Ronald Reagan was leaving after delivering a speech in Washington, DC, and was walking to his motorcade when he was shot by John Hinckley Jr., from the crowd. Reagan survived the assassination bid. (Wikimedia Commons/Pete Souza)