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The Presidents of the United States: A History of attempts
On the lives of eleven (out of 44) US presidents made the attempt. Four presidents were killed - LinkolnAbraham Abraham Lincoln (1865), James GarfildJames Garfield (1881), William MakKinliWilliam McKinley (1901) and John KennediJohn Kennedy (1963) .
Pevrvonachalno, some interesting facts about the Presidents of the United States Secret Service:
1. First Security Service US president appeared only in 1890 (after the assassination of President Garfield) and in 1906 (after the assassination of President McKinley) was created secret service, which was entrusted with the mission of protection of the American state.
2.Lyubopytno that the service is dedicated to the protection of US presidents, is not subject to the president himself, and is under the Ministry FinansovTreasury Department.
3.Do the beginning of the First World War the US presidential security service consisted of 27 people, with the beginning of the war the number had risen to 34.
4. In 1922, Congress created a special United StatesUS Congress organization Police DomaWhite White House Police Force, consisting of 33 people.
5. In 1974, increased to 1.4 thousand. People, and in 1977 the Presidential Security Service received its current name SluzhbaSecret Secret Service Uniformed Division.
The first American president, who was assassinated, became Andrew Jackson. January 30, 1835 at the Capitol building he was approached by 35-year-old painter Richard Lawrence and snatched the gun, twice tried to shoot, but the gun misfired. The offender was arrested and stated that Jackson took revenge for having lost his job. The president himself has claimed that the killer had sent his political protivniki.
April 14, 1865 in the box of the theater in Washington, was mortally wounded and died the next day President Abraham Lincoln. Sitting next to him Secretary of State William Seward was injured, but survived. Killer was an actor, a supporter of the defeated Confederacy.
Iyulya1881 2 years at the Washington station suffers a nervous breakdown failed right-wing politician Charles Guate (Guiteau) point-blank shot President James Garfield. September 19, 1881, he died of a common blood infection.
September 5, 1901 at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo president was wounded American anarchist Leon Frank Cholgoshem. The first assassin's bullet, standing just a meter away from the president, bounced off the buttons of his tuxedo, without causing him any harm. But the second was shot in the stomach, damage internal organs and lodged in the back (at autopsy did not find it). McKinley, seeing that the guards beating caught in the killer had a quiet voice say, "Take it easy with him, guys." Despite the timely operation and initial improvement, McKinley died in Buffalo in a private home in the presence of ministers and senators from gangrene of the internal organs at the wound site on September 14. His last words were the first lines of the hymn "Nearer, My God, to Thee» .
September 6, 1911 during the opening ceremony of the Pan-American Exposition in Chicago, was seriously wounded President William McKinley. Died on September 14th. His killer was the 28-year-old anarchist Leon Spolgots.
October 14, 1912 during a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was assassinated on Theodore Roosevelt. Despite the wound to the chest, the president has not left the podium and finished his speech to the voters, and only then seek medical attention. Encroach John Shrenk was recognized nevmenyaemym.
February 15, 1933, shortly after winning the election, but even before his inauguration, an attempt was made to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In Miami (Florida) shot him an anarchist Giuseppe Zangarra. Woman standing nearby when a shot managed to hit the offender's hand. Zangarra not hit the Roosevelt, but mortally wounded Chicago Mayor Anthony Chermaka.
November 1, 1950 was an attempt to assassinate President Harry S. Truman at his residence on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. Encroached on his life two Puerto Rican nationalists. Between the guards and the attackers took three-minute firefight, which resulted in the guard and one of the attackers were killed, the second attacker arestovan.
November 22, 1963 in Dallas was killed by US President John F. Kennedy. According to the official version, the lone assassin was a former paratrooper Lee Harvey Oswald, who has lived for several years in the Belarus capital Minsk. Two days later, Oswald was shot to death in a police station in Dallas by Jack Ruby in the moment when he was taken to be sent to federal prison. This attempt is still one of the greatest mysteries of the twentieth veka.
Fevralya1974 22 years in Baltimore was an attempt to assassinate Richard Nixon. Criminal armed with a gun burst into the plane of airline "Delta", will fly to Atlanta, and threatening to blow up the plane with all passengers and ordered the pilots to fly toward the White House. He said he was going to kill President Nixon. After the shooting, with a special unit of the FBI, the perpetrator committed suicide. In his briefcase was discovered homemade bomba.
In September 1975, were made two attempts to assassinate President Gerald Ford. Sept. 5 in Sacramento, California, the president fired Lynette Fromme, a member of the terrorist gang of Charles Manson. The gun was loaded, but there was a flash in the pan. 21sentyabrya when President Ford left the hotel in Los Angeles, he was shot in the left movement activist Sara Jane Moore. A bullet fired from a pistol caliber 38, flew a meter away from prezidenta.
March 30, 1981 in Washington twenty-five disc jockey John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan, which was released after a speech at the congress of the union construction workers in Washington hotel "Hilton". Bullet breaking the chest, took one and a half inches from the heart of the President and stuck in the lung. It was possible to extract only after a four-hour operation. In addition to Reagan, heavy injured a spokesman for the White House, Secret Service agent and a policeman. Forensic medical examination found Hinckley insane and sent to forced lechenie.
In April 1993, it became known about the assassination attempt, plan on George HW Bush. US intelligence agencies uncovered a plot by which during a visit to Kuwait car then ex-president of America was to be vzorvan.
In the history of American independence nor a president was not committed so many attempts as Bill Clinton. Four attacks on the President's life occurred only for 8 months (from 12 September 1993 to 23 May 1994). According to some sources, Clinton attempted to life about 30 times; on suspicion of attempted murder have been arrested more than 80 people, most of them mentally bolnye.
Repeated assassination attempts were made on the incumbent President George W. Bush.
May 10, 2005 during a speech Bush at Freedom Square in Tbilisi, Georgian citizen Vladimir Harutyunyan threw a grenade towards the stage. It did not explode by accident.
In March 2007, the military prosecutor of Jordan announced the disclosure of the conspiracy to assassinate US President George Bush during his visit to the Kingdom in November 2006. Three Jordanians had intended to undermine the US Embassy in Amman and Denmark at the moment when one of them will be US president.
In March 2007, the Colombian intelligence services have stated that have information about the planned attempt on George Bush during his visit to the country.
In June 2007, the Bulgarian secret services reported to plan the assassination of the US president during his visit to the Bulgarian capital.
Pevrvonachalno, some interesting facts about the Presidents of the United States Secret Service:
1. First Security Service US president appeared only in 1890 (after the assassination of President Garfield) and in 1906 (after the assassination of President McKinley) was created secret service, which was entrusted with the mission of protection of the American state.
2.Lyubopytno that the service is dedicated to the protection of US presidents, is not subject to the president himself, and is under the Ministry FinansovTreasury Department.
3.Do the beginning of the First World War the US presidential security service consisted of 27 people, with the beginning of the war the number had risen to 34.
4. In 1922, Congress created a special United StatesUS Congress organization Police DomaWhite White House Police Force, consisting of 33 people.
5. In 1974, increased to 1.4 thousand. People, and in 1977 the Presidential Security Service received its current name SluzhbaSecret Secret Service Uniformed Division.
The first American president, who was assassinated, became Andrew Jackson. January 30, 1835 at the Capitol building he was approached by 35-year-old painter Richard Lawrence and snatched the gun, twice tried to shoot, but the gun misfired. The offender was arrested and stated that Jackson took revenge for having lost his job. The president himself has claimed that the killer had sent his political protivniki.
April 14, 1865 in the box of the theater in Washington, was mortally wounded and died the next day President Abraham Lincoln. Sitting next to him Secretary of State William Seward was injured, but survived. Killer was an actor, a supporter of the defeated Confederacy.
Iyulya1881 2 years at the Washington station suffers a nervous breakdown failed right-wing politician Charles Guate (Guiteau) point-blank shot President James Garfield. September 19, 1881, he died of a common blood infection.
September 5, 1901 at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo president was wounded American anarchist Leon Frank Cholgoshem. The first assassin's bullet, standing just a meter away from the president, bounced off the buttons of his tuxedo, without causing him any harm. But the second was shot in the stomach, damage internal organs and lodged in the back (at autopsy did not find it). McKinley, seeing that the guards beating caught in the killer had a quiet voice say, "Take it easy with him, guys." Despite the timely operation and initial improvement, McKinley died in Buffalo in a private home in the presence of ministers and senators from gangrene of the internal organs at the wound site on September 14. His last words were the first lines of the hymn "Nearer, My God, to Thee» .
September 6, 1911 during the opening ceremony of the Pan-American Exposition in Chicago, was seriously wounded President William McKinley. Died on September 14th. His killer was the 28-year-old anarchist Leon Spolgots.
October 14, 1912 during a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was assassinated on Theodore Roosevelt. Despite the wound to the chest, the president has not left the podium and finished his speech to the voters, and only then seek medical attention. Encroach John Shrenk was recognized nevmenyaemym.
February 15, 1933, shortly after winning the election, but even before his inauguration, an attempt was made to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In Miami (Florida) shot him an anarchist Giuseppe Zangarra. Woman standing nearby when a shot managed to hit the offender's hand. Zangarra not hit the Roosevelt, but mortally wounded Chicago Mayor Anthony Chermaka.
November 1, 1950 was an attempt to assassinate President Harry S. Truman at his residence on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. Encroached on his life two Puerto Rican nationalists. Between the guards and the attackers took three-minute firefight, which resulted in the guard and one of the attackers were killed, the second attacker arestovan.
November 22, 1963 in Dallas was killed by US President John F. Kennedy. According to the official version, the lone assassin was a former paratrooper Lee Harvey Oswald, who has lived for several years in the Belarus capital Minsk. Two days later, Oswald was shot to death in a police station in Dallas by Jack Ruby in the moment when he was taken to be sent to federal prison. This attempt is still one of the greatest mysteries of the twentieth veka.
Fevralya1974 22 years in Baltimore was an attempt to assassinate Richard Nixon. Criminal armed with a gun burst into the plane of airline "Delta", will fly to Atlanta, and threatening to blow up the plane with all passengers and ordered the pilots to fly toward the White House. He said he was going to kill President Nixon. After the shooting, with a special unit of the FBI, the perpetrator committed suicide. In his briefcase was discovered homemade bomba.
In September 1975, were made two attempts to assassinate President Gerald Ford. Sept. 5 in Sacramento, California, the president fired Lynette Fromme, a member of the terrorist gang of Charles Manson. The gun was loaded, but there was a flash in the pan. 21sentyabrya when President Ford left the hotel in Los Angeles, he was shot in the left movement activist Sara Jane Moore. A bullet fired from a pistol caliber 38, flew a meter away from prezidenta.
March 30, 1981 in Washington twenty-five disc jockey John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan, which was released after a speech at the congress of the union construction workers in Washington hotel "Hilton". Bullet breaking the chest, took one and a half inches from the heart of the President and stuck in the lung. It was possible to extract only after a four-hour operation. In addition to Reagan, heavy injured a spokesman for the White House, Secret Service agent and a policeman. Forensic medical examination found Hinckley insane and sent to forced lechenie.
In April 1993, it became known about the assassination attempt, plan on George HW Bush. US intelligence agencies uncovered a plot by which during a visit to Kuwait car then ex-president of America was to be vzorvan.
In the history of American independence nor a president was not committed so many attempts as Bill Clinton. Four attacks on the President's life occurred only for 8 months (from 12 September 1993 to 23 May 1994). According to some sources, Clinton attempted to life about 30 times; on suspicion of attempted murder have been arrested more than 80 people, most of them mentally bolnye.
Repeated assassination attempts were made on the incumbent President George W. Bush.
May 10, 2005 during a speech Bush at Freedom Square in Tbilisi, Georgian citizen Vladimir Harutyunyan threw a grenade towards the stage. It did not explode by accident.
In March 2007, the military prosecutor of Jordan announced the disclosure of the conspiracy to assassinate US President George Bush during his visit to the Kingdom in November 2006. Three Jordanians had intended to undermine the US Embassy in Amman and Denmark at the moment when one of them will be US president.
In March 2007, the Colombian intelligence services have stated that have information about the planned attempt on George Bush during his visit to the country.
In June 2007, the Bulgarian secret services reported to plan the assassination of the US president during his visit to the Bulgarian capital.
