Trump joins long list of US presidents and candidates targeted by assassins
by Heather Stewart from US news | The Guardian on (#6P6ZP)
From Lincoln to Reagan, here are the stories of eight major US political figures killed or threatened on the job
Donald Trump joins a long line of US presidents and candidates for the White House who have faced attempts on their lives over more than 150 years.
Abraham Lincoln was the first US president to be killed while in office, when he was shot in the head from behind while attending a theatre in Washington, in 1865. Lincoln died the next day.
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