PROFILES OF AMERICAN POLITICAL
ASSASSINS
| Name | Victim/ Date | Result |
| Richard Lawrence | Andrew Jackson, 1835 | Jackson not injured. Lawrence institutionalized for life. |
| John Wilkes Booth | Abraham Lincoln, 1865 | Lincoln died. Booth killed 12 days later. |
| Charles Guiteau | James Garfield, 1881 | Garfield died. Guiteau hanged 1 year later. |
| Leon Czolgosz | William McKinley, 1901 | McKinley died. Czolgosz died in electric chair 1 month later. |
| John Schrank | Theodore Roosevelt, 1912 | Roosevelt wounded. Schrank in mental hospital for life. |
| Giuseppe Zangara | Franklin Roosevelt, 1933 | Roosevelt not injured (Chicago mayor Cermak killed). Zangara died in electric chair. |
| Carl Weiss | Huey Long, 1935 | Long killed; Weiss killed by guards |
| Oscar Collazo & Griselio Torresola | Harry Truman, 1950 | Truman not injured. Security guard killed. Torresola killed. Collazo wounded, death sentence commuted to life imprisonment. Sentence commuted by Pres. Carter. |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | John F. Kennedy, 1963 | Kennedy killed (Gov. Connely injured). Oswald killed by Jack Ruby 2 days later. |
| James Earl Ray | Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968 | King killed. Ray imprisoned for life. |
| Sirhan Sirhan | Robert Kennedy, 1968 | Kennedy killed. Sirhan imprisoned for life. |
| Arthur Bremer | George Wallace, 1972 | Wallace paralyzed. |
| Samuel Byck | Richard Nixon, 1974 | Nixon not injured. Byck wounded in hijack attempt (he planned to dive-bomb the white house) then committed suicide. |
| Lynette Fromme | Gerald Ford, 1975 | Ford not injured: Fromme tried, imprisoned for life |
| Sara Jane Moore | Gerald Ford, 1975 | Ford not injured; Moore tried, imprisoned for life |
| John Hinckley | Ronald Reagan, 1981 | Reagan wounded. Hinckley in mental institution for life. |
| Frank Corder | William Clinton, 1994 | Corder killed when he crashed his plane into White House, Clinton not injured. |
| Francisco Duran | William Clinton, 1994 | Duran tackled by tourist when he opened fire on White House,Clinton not injured, imprisoned for 40 years . |
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