On the anniversary of Kennedy's murder, you know the stories of the assassination of 4 American presidents while they were in office

The United States of America witnessed many political assassinations that claimed the lives of 4 American presidents, in addition to many ministers, statesmen and a number of the most important leaders of the civil rights movement that was calling for blacks to be given their civil rights equal to others.

On the 58th anniversary of the assassination of the 35th President of the United States John F. Kennedy, in this report we review a series of political assassinations that claimed the lives of 4 American presidents during their tenure of office, and they are:

Abraham lincoln

In April 1865, the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, was assassinated, in the first incident of its kind to assassinate the first politically motivated American president.

At a time when Lincoln was one of the most prominent politicians in the United States, he was subjected to an assassination that claimed his life because of his anti-slavery stances, which angered many of the influential within the state and its economy, given that most of their work was based on the forced labor system.

In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's success in leading the northern armies and defeating the southerners who had separated from their state in refusal to abolish slavery and slavery in the country, sparking a civil war, Lincoln was able to end it and pass the slavery law after that with his cunning and cunning.

Despite receiving numerous threatening letters warning of secret assassination plots against him, Wilkes Booth, an anti-black racist extremist, managed to infiltrate the main booth at Ford's Theater in Washington, DC, and shot Lincoln in the head from behind. I wanted him dead. Booth was killed 12 days after he assassinated President Lincoln.

James Garfield

The next assassination was that of the 20th President of the United States, James Garfield, who was shot from behind in July 1881, less than 4 months after taking office, causing his death on September 19 of the same year.

While he was preparing for a summer vacation on a yacht, President Garfield arrived at the railroad station in Washington, where the lawyer Carlos Giotto, who was angry after his application to be appointed as the US ambassador to France, was waiting for him. From behind a seat Gitto pulled out a gun and shot him.

The bullet penetrated Garfield's back, shattered his spine and then lodged behind his pancreas, causing the president to collapse and fall to the ground without dying. After that, Garfield was transferred to the White House and the bullet was extracted from his body, after which the president’s condition began to improve to the point that he resumed his work in the White House while lying in bed, but his condition deteriorated again in the middle of September, and his strength began to fade with the passage of hours until his death The morning of September 19, 1881. His killer was executed less than a year later.

William McKinley

Despite the warnings of his guard director, who was afraid of the recent attacks of "anarchists" (a movement that sees heads of state and their ministers as symbols of unjust governments) in Europe, which claimed the death of King Umberto I of Italy, the 25th US president, William McKinley, decided to participate in an exhibition of Latin American countries held in September 1901.

Failing to get close enough on September 5, anarchist Leon Kazelgoeser waited for the president to attend the Temple of Music on the fairgrounds the next day. close.

In the days following the shooting, McKinley seemed to be improving and doctors issued increasingly optimistic bulletins, but the truth was the opposite, as his doctors did not realize at the time the danger of gangrene that grew on the wall of his stomach and slowly poisoned his blood, which was the cause of his death William McKinley September 14, 1901. Nine days after McKinley's death, Kazelgosz is tried for murder and executed by electric chair.

John Kennedy

The 35th US President, John F. Kennedy, was the last American president to be assassinated on November 22, 1963, after he shot his convertible car with his wife in Dallas, Texas, in a large crowd of citizens.

The bullets fired by Lee Harvey Oswald, a former naval officer, hit Kennedy in the neck and head, killing him instantly, and he was pronounced dead less than an hour after the accident.

To this day, no one knows who the mastermind behind the Kennedy assassination was, which opened the door to wide speculation and the spread of conspiracy theories widely, especially since the 24-year-old Harvey never confessed to committing the crime and was found murdered only two days after his detention, leaving behind him. The mystery of the assassination is unsolved.

Failed assassination attempts

In 1933, in the same way that John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Italian Giuseppe Zangara fired five shots at the motorcade of US President Franklin Roosevelt while he was walking through Florida, in an attempt to kill him, but none of the bullets hit him. In his place, the mayor of Chicago was killed.

During another failed attempt, in 1981, the most famous American president and former Hollywood star, Ronald Reagan, was exposed while leaving the Hilton Hotel in Washington, where the president was hit in the lung but did not die, and was able to complete his presidential term.