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Assassination attempt on Donald Trump: America’s sad record of targeted heads of state
Assassination attempt on Donald Trump: America’s sad record of targeted heads of state
(France 2)
In the United States, several presidents and presidential candidates have been targeted by shooters. A look back at the heavy toll.
The history of the United States is marked by political violence. In the collective memory, there is first the image of John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s limousine in Dallas (United States) in 1963. His wife’s pink suit, and the shots that hit the then president in the head. Four American heads of state have been killed in the exercise of their mandate.
Ronald Reagan was the last to narrowly escape death. In 1981, a madman shot the president six times. He survived his injuries, as did Gerald Ford, who was the victim of two assassination attempts in 1975. “If you radically disagree with your opponent, you physically dispose of him. That’s what I call the worst of America.”comments Dominique Maïs, researcher at the French Institute of International Relations.
