The history of attempted and successful presidential assassinations in the United States is a stark reflection of the nation's turbulent political landscape and the extreme measures some people are ...
The play, now being presented at the Puerto Rican Travelling Theater, is based on a real-life event: an assassination attempt on President Truman by Puerto Rican activists in 1950. The would-be ...
Truman by an assassination attempt, Eisenhower by a heart attack. Should something happen to President Johnson, he would be succeeded by John McCormack, 71-year-old Speaker of the House.
But security is back in the spotlight this year in the wake of an assassination attempt on President-elect Donald Trump this past summer that killed a bystander and ended with the death of the ...