Did you know that James A. Garfield was assassinated within 4 months after he took the seat Presidency?

Did you know that four sitting presidents have been killed in office? Abraham Lincoln (the 16th President), James A. Garfield (the 20th President), William McKinley (the 25th President) and John F. Kennedy (the 35th President).

Abraham Lincoln

Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was the first sitting President to be assassinated in office?

Did you know that Lincoln was assassinated on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, at approximately 10:15 p.m?

John Wilkes Booth

 Did you know that Lincoln was shot once in the back of his head with a .44 caliber Derringer pistol by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth?

 

 

 

 

 

James A. Garfield

Did you know that James A. Garfield was the second sitting President to be assassinated in office?

Did you know that James A. Garfield was assassinated within 4 months after he took the seat Presidency?

Did you know that James A. Garfield was assassinated in Washington, D.C., at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 2, 1881?

Charles J. Guiteau

Did you know that James A. Garfield was assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau, he shot Garfield twice, once in his right arm and the other in his back, with a .442 Webley British Bulldog revolver?

Did you know that Garfield died 11 weeks later, on September 19, 1881, at 10:35 p.m., of complications caused by infections?

Did you know that William McKinley was the third sitting President to be assassinated in office?

William McKinley

Did you know that William McKinley was assassinated September 6, 1901, at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York at 4:07 p.m. on Friday?

Leon Czolgosz,

 Did you know that William McKinley was shot twice in the abdomen at close range by Leon Czolgosz, a self-proclaimed anarchist, who was armed with a .32 caliber revolver?

Did you know that William McKinley died eight days later, on September 14, 1901, at 2:15 a.m. because the doctors forgot to drain his wound of infections before sewing the wound shut?

Did you know that John F. Kennedy was the last sitting President to be assassinated in office?

Did you know that John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 p.m?

Did you know that Kennedy was fatally wounded by a sniper's bullets in his neck from

Lee Harvey Oswald,

Lee Harvey Oswald, an employee of the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza?

Did you know that  was was shot and fatally wounded in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters byJack Ruby?

Jack Ruby

Did you know that two presidents survived  an  attack when they were injured in an assassination attempted?

Did you know that former President Theodore Roosevelt (the 26th President), and President Ronald Reagan (the 40th President)?






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