Richard Lawrence, carrying 2 derringer pistols fires at the President. Both shots misfire.

Jackson goes after Lawrence with his cane.

He gave the several reasons for the shooting:

1. He had recently lost his job painting houses and somehow blamed Jackson.

2. He claimed that with the President dead “money would be more plenty”—a reference to Jackson’s struggle with the Bank of the United States—and that he “could not rise until the President fell.”

3. Finally, he informed his interrogators that he was actually a deposed English King—Richard III, specifically, dead since 1485—and that Jackson was merely his clerk. He was deemed insane, institutionalized, and never punished for his assassination attempt.

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February 23, 1861

The Baltimore Plot was an alleged conspiracy to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln en route to his inauguration. (Cypriano Ferrandini)

Allan Pinkerton, played a key role by managing Lincoln's security throughout the journey.

Later, while Lincoln was out riding, a shot fired from the bushes caused his horse to bolt, and he lost his hat; when soldiers retrieved the hat, they found a bullet hole in it.

The incident was hushed up, but Secretary of War Edwin Stanton increased the heavy guard that accompanied the president.

Allan Pinkerton

October 14, 1912

T.R. readied to leave for the Milwaukee Auditorium to give a campaign speech.

John Schrank fired his .38 revolver from close range, hitting Roosevelt in the chest.

The tenacious Roosevelt insisted, however, on continuing on to his speech anyway.

"It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose!"

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February 15, 1933

Guiseppe Zangara attempted to assassinate Franklin Delano Roosevelt while the then President-elect was giving a speech in Miami, Florida.

As Roosevelt finished a short speech , Zangara fired five rounds from 25 feet.

One bullet struck Chicago's Mayor Anton Cermak who was shaking hands with Roosevelt at the time. Four others were wounded.

Zangara received the death penalty when Cermak died.

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November 1, 1950

Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola decided to assassinate President Truman with the intention of bringing world attention to the independence cause of Puerto Rico.

Violent gun battle ended with the deaths of Officer Coffelt and assassin Torresola.

White House Policeman Leslie W. Coffelt

Blair House

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December 11, 1960

While vacationing in Palm Beach, Florida, President-elect John F. Kennedy's life was threatened by Richard Paul Pavlick, a 73-year-old former postal worker.

Pavlick's plan was to serve as a suicide bomber by crashing his dynamite-laden 1950 Buick into Kennedy's vehicle.

Pavlick was arrested by the Secret Service after he was stopped for a driving violation, with the dynamite still in his car.

Pavlick spent the next six years in both federal prison and mental institutions before being released in December 1966.

February 22, 1974

At Baltimore-Washington International Airport, Byck, pulling a .38-caliber revolver, shoots an airport security guard in the back.

Leaping over the security check point and boarding a DC-9 Delta Airlines Flight 523 destined for Atlanta. He storms the planes cockpit and shoots the copilot and then the pilot.

Byck became frustrated, he grabbed a nearby passenger and shouted at her to 'fly the plane.'

A policeman who heard the shots in the airport runs to the plane in pursuit. He sees Byck through the plane’s window and shoots several times, mortally wounding Byck.

As authorities moved in, he put the revolver to his head and pulled the trigger. Under his body was found a briefcase gasoline bomb

Samuel Byck Operation Pandora's Box

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September 5, 1975

In Northern California, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, drew a Colt M1911 .45 caliber pistol on Ford when he reached to shake her hand in a crowd. There were four cartridges in the pistol's magazine but the firing chamber was empty.

She was soon restrained by Secret Service agent Larry Buendorf.

Fromme was sentenced to life in prison, but was released from custody on August 14, 2009, nearly 3 years after Ford's death.

Fromme being subdued

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September 22, 1975

In San Francisco, California, Sara Jane Moore fired a revolver at Ford from 40 feet away.

A bystander, Oliver Sipple, grabbed Moore's arm and the shot missed Ford.

Moore was sentenced to life in prison. She was later paroled from a federal prison on Monday, December 31, 2007 (370 days after Ford's death) after serving more than 30 years.

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May 5, 1979

Just before Carter was to speak Raymond Lee Harvey was in the crowd—and he looked so nervous that he drew the attention of a Secret Service agent.

As the agent approached him, Harvey began walking rapidly away, and was seized. He was carrying a starter pistol.

Secret Service and FBI agents investigated and found the man Harvey knew as Julio, but he gave his name as Osvaldo Espinoza-Ortiz, 21. He admitted being an illegal alien from Mexico.

They charged Harvey with conspiring to kill the President and jailed him on a $50,000 bond.

Charges were later dropped due to lack of evidence.

March 30, 1981

As Reagan walked out of a hotel toward his waiting car, John Hinckley emerged from the crowd of admirers and fired a Röhm RG-14 .22 cal. blue steel revolver six times in three seconds.

Hinckley, claiming to be inspired by Jodie Foster in the movie Taxi Driver, missed the President with all six shots.

1. The first bullet hit White House Press Secretary James Brady in the head.

2. The second hit District of Columbia police officer Thomas Delahanty in the back.

3. The third overshot the president and hit the window of a building across the street.

4. The fourth hit Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy in the abdomen.

5. The fifth hit the bullet-resistant glass of the window on the open side door of the president's limousine.

6. The sixth and final bullet ricocheted off the side of the limousine and hit the president in his left underarm, grazing a rib and lodging in his lung, stopping nearly an inch from his heart.

“Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state . . .” Alexander Haig

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April 13, 1993

Sixteen men, said to be in the employment of Saddam Hussein, smuggled a car bomb into Kuwait with the intent of killing Bush as he spoke at Kuwait University.

The plot was foiled when Kuwaiti officials found the bomb and arrested the suspected assassins.

The Iraqi Intelligence Service, particularly Directorate 14, is thought to be behind the plot

Bush had left office in January 1993.

September 12, 1994

Frank Eugene Corder flew a single-engine Cessna into the White House lawn, allegedly trying to hit the White House. The President and First Family were not home at the time. Corder was the only casualty.

October 29, 1994

Francisco Martin Duran fired at least 29 shots with a semi-automatic rifle at the White House from a fence overlooking the north lawn, thinking that Clinton was among the men in dark suits standing there

Clinton was in the White House Residence watching a football game.

Three tourists, Harry Rakowsky, Ken Davis and Robert Haines, tackled Duran before he could injure anyone. Duran was found to have a suicide note in his pocket and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

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February 7, 2001

Robert Pickett, standing outside the perimeter fence, discharged a number of shots from a weapon towards the White House.

Following a stand-off of about ten minutes, the incident ended when a Secret Service officer shot Pickett, resulting in an injury which required immediate hospital surgery.

Pickett was found to have emotional problems and employment grievances.

A court in July 2001 sentenced Pickett to three years imprisonment in connection with the incident.

May 10, 2005

While President George W. Bush was giving a speech in the Freedom Square in Tbilisi, Georgia, Vladimir Arutyunian threw a live Soviet-made RGD-5 hand grenade towards the podium where Bush was standing and where Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, the First Lady of the United States Laura Bush, the First Lady of Georgia Sandra Roelofs, and officials were seated.

The grenade was live and had its pin pulled, but did not explode because a red tartan handkerchief wrapped tightly around the grenade kept the firing pin from deploying quickly enough.

Arutyunian was arrested in July 2005, and killed an Interior Ministry agent while resisting arrest. He was convicted in January 2006, and was given a life sentence.

Bush and Saakashvili

Arutyunian

August 24, 2008

Refers to an alleged plot by Shawn Robert Adolf, Tharin Robert Gartrell and Nathan Dwaine Johnson to assassinate Barack Obama, then the 2008 Democratic Party presidential nominee.

The trio of white supremacists allegedly planned to shoot Senator Obama with a high-powered rifle during the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.

Booking shots of Tharin Gartrell, Nathan Johnson and Shawn Adolf . Each served time for drug and firearms charges.