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President Richard Nixon
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Did you know that President Richard Nixon had 2 different people attempt to assassinate him while he was in office?
Did you know that April 13, 1972:
Arthur Bremer
carried a firearm to an event intending to shoot Nixon,
?
Did you know that Bremer a few weeks later, shot and seriously
injured Governor of
Alabama George Wallace which left Wallace paralyzed, for the remainder of his life?
Did you know that on February 22, 1974
Samuel Byck planned to kill
Nixon by crashing a commercial
White House?
[21]
airliner into the
Did you know that Byck tried to
hijacked the plane
on the ground by force by shooting the pilot and copilot?
Did you know an
officer shot Byck through the plane's door window and he turned the gun on him self?
Did you know that President Gerald Ford had 2 different people attempt to assassinate him while he was in office?
Did you know that on September 5, 1975
Lynette Fromme on the northern grounds of the
California State Capitol, drew a
Colt M1911 .45 caliber pistol on
Ford when he reached to shake her hand in a crowd?
Did you know that Fromme was sentenced to life in prison, but was released from custody
on August 14, 2009 (2 years and 8 months after Ford's death)?
[22]
Did you know that September 22, 1975
Sara Jane Moore fired a revolver at Ford from 40 feet (12 m)
San Francisco, California?
[23]
away in
Did you know that a bystander,
Oliver Sipple, grabbed Moore's arm
[24]
and the shot missed Ford?
Did you know that Moore was sentenced to life in prison?
[25]
Did you know that Moore was paroled from a federal prison on December 31, 2007 after serving
more than 30 years. (It was more than a year after Ford's natural
death.)?
Did you know that Jimmy Carter had 1 person attempt to assassinate him while
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Jimmy Carter
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he was in office?
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Raymond Lee Harvey |
Did you know that Raymond Lee Harvey was an
Ohio-born unemployed American
drifter who was arrested by the
Secret Service after being found carrying a
starter pistol with
blank rounds, ten minutes
President Jimmy Carter was to give a speech at the
Civic Center Mall in
Los Angeles on May 5, 1979?
before
Did you know that Harvey was never charged with anything due lack of evidence?
[29]
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Ronald Regan |
Did you know that Ronald Reagan had 1 person attempted to assassinate him while he was in office?
Did you know that On March 30, 1981,
John Hinckley, Jr.. had shot President
Reagan and three other men?
Did you know that Hinckley claimed to have wanted to kill the president to impress the teen
actress
Jodie Foster?
Did you know that Hinckley wasdeemed mentally ill and was confined to an institution?
Did you know that besides Reagan,
White House Press Secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent
Tim McCarthy, and D.C. police officer
Thomas Delahanty were also wounded in the attack?
Did you know that all three survived, but Brady suffered brain damage and was permanently disabled?
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George H. W. Bush
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Did you know that George H. W. Bush had had one group of people attempt to assassinate him after he had left office?
Did you know that on April 13, 1993 after Bush left the White House, fourteen men believed to be working for
Saddam Hussein smuggled bombs into
Kuwait to assassinate former president
Bush by a car bomb during his visit to
Kuwait University several months after he had left office?
[30]
Did you know that President Bill Clinton had 3 different attempts to assassinate him while he was in office?
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Bill Clinton
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Did you know that on January 21, 1994 Ronald Gene Barbour, a retired military officer
and freelance writer, plotted to kill Clinton while the President was
jogging?
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Ronald Gene Barbour |
Did you know that Barbour was sentenced to five years in prison and was released in 1998?
Did you know that September 12, 1994
Frank Eugene Corder flew a stolen single-engine
Cessna
onto the White House lawn and crashed into a tree?
Did you know that Corder, was killed in the crash?
Did you know that 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 ?
Did you know that three tourists, Harry Rakosky, Ken Davis and Robert Haines, tackled
Duran before he could injure anyone?
Did you know that Duran was sentenced to 40 years in prison?
[36]
Did you know that George W. Bush had 2 different people attempt to
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George W. Bush
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assassinate him while he was in office?
Did you know that according to
CNN
correspondent Eileen O'Connor, the police confiscated a sophisticated
handgun that could have reached the White House if the angle was not obstructed?
Did you know that ourt in July 2001 sentenced Pickett to three years imprisonment in
connection with the incident?
Did you know that the grenade was live and had its pin pulled, but did
not explode because a red tartan handkerchief was wrapped tightly
around it and delayed the firing pin?
[38]
Did you know that Arutyunian escaped after the attempt that day but was arrested on July 2005?
Did you know that Arutyunian was convicted on January 2006,
and he was given a
life sentence?[39][40]
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President Obama
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Did you know that more attempts have been made to assassinate President Obama than any other President?
Did you know that in Denver. Cousins Tharin Gartrell and Shawn Adolf, and their
friend Nathan Johnson, went to Denver allegedly planning to assassinate
Obama during his acceptance speech at the
2008?
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Tharin Gartrell and Shawn Adolf, and their
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Did you know that a
fourth attempt in Tennessee involved two
white supremacists,
Paul Schlesselman and Daniel Cowart, who planned to drive their car
toward the Democratic nominee Obama and open fire with guns and kill the President?
[50][51]
Did you know that the Schlesselman and Cowart were were arrested on October 22, 2008?
Did you know that Schlesselman and Cowart
pleaded guilty to federal charges related to the
threat in 2010 and were sentenced to 10 and 14 years in prison,
respectively?
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Did you know that several attempts to assassinate the President with letters laced with
ricin, was sent to President Obama?
[54]
Did you know that the most recent attempt on the President was made in June 2013?
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