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During a speech ex-President Theodore Roosevelt was shot and wounded. The bullet stayed in his body for the rest of his life. STORY HIGHLIGHTS President Carter freed a gunman who'd been imprisoned for attacking Harry Truman
In 1933, Chicago's mayor was killed during an attack on Franklin Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt was shot while giving a speech in Wisconsin; he finished the speech
In California, Gerald Ford was targeted twice in 17 days by two different armed womenEditor's note: John Hinckley came within inches of killing a president. Tune in Saturday night at 8 ET as CNN's Drew Griffin exposes what you don't know about the man who tried to kill President Reagan on CNN Presents -- "Stalker: The Shooting of Ronald Reagan." Washington (CNN) -- Ronald Reagan, shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr., on March 30, 1981, was the ninth American president, in or out of office, to be the target of an assassination attempt since the Civil War. Four presidents were killed. 1865: Abraham Lincoln was murdered at Ford's Theatre in Washington by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, who was tracked down hiding on a Virginia tobacco farm 12 days later and was shot to death trying to escape. Four co-conspirators, including a woman, were hanged three months later. 1881: James Garfield, only four months in office, was shot at a railway station in Washington by disappointed office-seeker Charles Guiteau. Garfield died 11 weeks later. Guiteau was convicted and hanged within the year. 1901: William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, and died eight days later. Czolgosz was convicted only nine days after McKinley's death and was electrocuted the next month.
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In 1933, Chicago's mayor was killed during an attack on Franklin Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt was shot while giving a speech in Wisconsin; he finished the speech
In California, Gerald Ford was targeted twice in 17 days by two different armed womenEditor's note: John Hinckley came within inches of killing a president. Tune in Saturday night at 8 ET as CNN's Drew Griffin exposes what you don't know about the man who tried to kill President Reagan on CNN Presents -- "Stalker: The Shooting of Ronald Reagan." Washington (CNN) -- Ronald Reagan, shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr., on March 30, 1981, was the ninth American president, in or out of office, to be the target of an assassination attempt since the Civil War. Four presidents were killed. 1865: Abraham Lincoln was murdered at Ford's Theatre in Washington by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, who was tracked down hiding on a Virginia tobacco farm 12 days later and was shot to death trying to escape. Four co-conspirators, including a woman, were hanged three months later. 1881: James Garfield, only four months in office, was shot at a railway station in Washington by disappointed office-seeker Charles Guiteau. Garfield died 11 weeks later. Guiteau was convicted and hanged within the year. 1901: William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, and died eight days later. Czolgosz was convicted only nine days after McKinley's death and was electrocuted the next month.
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