Here’s a list of US leaders killed or survived assassination attempts

Washington — Donald Trump was shot by a gunman during a campaign rally on Saturday in what the FBI called an attempted assassination of the former US president, who survived the attack with a wounded ear.

Below is a list of other attempts on the lives of American leaders.

Assassinations

Four US presidents have been assassinated while in office.

Abraham Lincoln: killed in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre in Washington.

James Garfield: shot in 1881 in Washington at a train station. He died of his wounds two-and-a-half months later.

William McKinley: assassinated in 1901 by an anarchist in Buffalo, New York.

John F Kennedy: shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 in Dallas, Texas, as the president rode in a motorcade.

Survivors

Three presidents have been wounded in assassination attempts while in office or afterwards.

Donald Trump: shot during a campaign speech in Pennsylvania on Saturday. Shots rang out and a bullet appeared to have grazed his ear, which was bleeding. He was rushed by security officials to a black SUV.

President Ronald Reagan: shot in 1981 outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, the US, but survived the attack. Reagan was wounded when one of the bullets ricocheted off a limousine and struck him under the left armpit.

President Gerald Ford: survived two attempts on his life in less than three weeks in 1975 without being hurt.

Theodore Roosevelt: shot in the chest in 1912 while campaigning for elections in Milwaukee and survived.

Attempts on other leaders

Robert F Kennedy: US presidential candidate, Kennedy was assassinated in 1968 at the age of 42 by a gunman in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

Alabama governor George C Wallace: shot in 1982 and became paralysed from the waist down.

Reuters