Every US President Assassination Attempt in 12 Minutes | The Paint Explainer | History Teacher React

hey there I'm Mr Terry I'm my high school history teacher welcome back to another history teacher reacts video all right so with the recent attempt of assassinating former president Donald Trump I think it's really important that we understand the history of presidential assassination attempts and that brings us to today's video from the paint explainer his video is titled every US president assassination attempt in 12 minutes all right so you're going to get the short breakdown from him and you know I'll add some detail along the way our original video is down below please support that And subscribe and give this video a thumbs up if you liked what you out here today all right let's get started by the way the paint explainer has triggered the creation of so many of these like paint explainer videos have you seen how many channels there are now that are doing that and uh it's pretty crazy what we've seen over this past like summer past few months so all right but uh we'll see like did you know for example that there were this many different attempts and there are more out there like already I can see that uh they don't have like like George uh W book and some of these U have been so minor of attempts or at least about how close they got that they don't go you know don't get talked about very much but um these have happened actually quite a bit if you were able to go through the Secret Service and ask them like how many credible threats have you actually intervened on you would see a lot more of this including ones that were attempted when they go overseas to other countries so this is probably one just looking at them that like like at least like they were extremely close I mean we'll see what they do here but just looking at the list and what I've learned from History Abraham Lincoln in the summer of 1864 the Civil War was still raging and President Lincoln was running for reelection he faced considerable opposition and threats from Confederate sympathizers and others who were unhappy with his leadership and the ongoing war on August 23rd 1864 Lincoln was traveling from Washington DC to the solders home a retreat located about 3 mil from the White House where he often stayed during the summer months to escape the Heat and pressures of the capital the journey to and from the solders home was considered risky due to the isolated and wooded nature of the area during one of these trips while Lincoln was riding in his Carriage a shot was fired at him the bullet went through his hat but miraculously Lincoln was unharmed accounts of the event suggest that L was see this is why they wore those big hats you thought those hats the big old huge hats were you know just for Style no it's to it's to it's to throw off potential assassins cuz they're like all I got to do is shoot the hat right his head's going to be in there no those things are are huge I don't think I've heard this story by the way quite calm and nonchalant about the incident reportedly saying that it was not his time to Die the incident was investigated but the shooter was never identified it was suspected that Confederate sympathizers or other individuals opposed to Lincoln might have been responsible Abraham okay so he had plenty of enemies the whole South coming after him uh is there any way that that could have been John wils Booth getting his first run in uh I don't know cuz they they uh John WS Booth ends up getting killed in a shootout didn't get to like interrogate him and to see if there was other attempts should I add my little bit of conspiracy I don't know if that's very conspiratorial but okay okay I think as a president you have to be mentally prepared for this because if you're not you probably understand how big of a threat you are and how good of a person you think you are like you're going to have enemies whether domestic or foreign it's like something you've got to be able to bounce back from you saw that with Trump right now like he went literally golf the next day he's right back at it like seems to be no PTSD or anything happening all Lincoln to on the evening of April 14th 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was attending a play at Ford's Theater in Washington DC the play was our American cousin and Lincoln was in a particularly good mood as the Civil War had just ended a few days earlier with the surrender of Confederate General Robert E Lee John wils Booth a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer had been plotting against Lincoln for some time initially boo had planned to kidnap Lincoln but after the war's conclusion he decided to assassinate him instead Boo and his co-conspirators planned to kill several top government officials to destabilize the union government Booth himself took on the task of Killing Lincoln during the play Booth slipped into Lincoln's private box and shot him in the back of the head with a small pistol after firing the Fatal shot Booth leapt from the box to the stage injuring his leg in the process and escaped the theater shouting sixer which means thus always to tyrants in Latin was carried across the street to a boarding house where doctors attended to him through the night but his wound was Mortal he died the next morning at 7:22 a.m. on April 15th 1865 Booth fled Washington DC and was pursued by Union Soldiers after 12 days he was found hiding in a barn in Virginia the barn was set on fire to flush him out and he was shot and killed by Sergeant Boston Corbett did you have to draw the gun like that James Abram Garfield all right I don't think we need to talk much more about that we know about the an assassination but yeah a lot of people don't know that there was an attempt for that whole night of pretty much his cabinet and close calls all around so look into that a little bit more about though but uh yeah much bigger than just wil smoth he's not a lone wolf in this all right let's get to the more obscure ones yeah let's get to Garfield James Abram Garfield the 20th president of the United States was shot on July 2nd 1881 by Charles Julius Gau a mentally unstable office Seeker who believed he deserved a political appointment from Garfield had been stalking the president for weeks on the morning of July 2nd Garfield was at the Baltimore and pomac Railroad Station in Washington DC preparing to leave for a summer vacation as he walked through the station with Secretary of State James Gillespie Blaine Gau approached from behind and fired Two Shots one bullet hit Garfield's arm while the other lodged in his abdomen Garfield was taken to the White House where he was treated by doctors who unfortunately made numerous mistakes the medical practices of the time were not a septic and doctors used unsterilized instruments and hands to probe Garfield's wound repeatedly searching for the bullet which a lot of that stuff really didn't get better until the world wars um when they started about that time understanding a lot more about germ Theory and all that and there were people that had proposed you know that there needs to be a more careful attention to clean utensils and a lot of those uh people were kind of laughed off by like the medical community it's really sad actually we could have we could have figured this stuff out way sooner severe infections Garfield's condition worsened over the summer as he endured intense pain and high fevers despite various attempts to improve his health including moving him to the seaside in New Jersey he did not recover after 79 days of suffering Garfield succumbed to his injuries and the ensuing infections on September 19th 1881 that's like where you wonder if like H you'd be better off just dying instantly if you have to live another 3 months of pain like G was immediately arrested after the shooting he was tried for murder and despite his claims of insanity he was found guilty and executed by hanging on June 30th 1882 William mck old hanging man okay so Garfield I'll see if I remember when I linked I like to link um familiar videos at the end here those end tiles I learned about that from I think it was samonella didn't he do a video on the Garfield attempt and yeah that guy was kind of nuts I I don't think there was that strong of a relationship between Gau and Garfield but as we know a lot of people will promise things uh to people for political support so you know promising cabinet positions which is against the law uh you cannot uh for example um promise a like a position to a candidate or a candidate cannot promise a position to somebody for an endorsement for example a lot of people wonder why that doesn't happen as much with like presidents where they don't appoint one of the uh people that ran against them because that can get into a lot of red tape gray area about that about you know that they got that endorsement because they were going to get a job they usually pick somebody that's not in that race I mean it does it does depend though like like with kamla Hara she actually did run against a Biden in that first election but she was so far down the list actually uh for people for for candidates but it does happen but a lot of times they will pick somebody else that could be one way to not get those accusations all right McKinley here we go on September 6th 1901 McKinley was attending the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo New York while at the Temple of Music McKinley was greeting the public during a reception Leon shulo an anarchist who believed that the government was oppressive and unjust approached McKinley with a concealed pistol pretending to be in line to shake hands with the president cholos fired two shots at close range one bullet grazed McKinley while the other penetrated his abdomen McKinley initially seemed to be recovering after being taken to the hospital surgeons oper ated on him but could not find the second bullet despite by the way in that meeting with Leon there he they were so close contact people they were like shaking everybody's hands like just doing that this was back in the day where you could get a lot closer contact with a president it was easier to even do something like get an appointment to meet with them they it was a lot more open back in those days you could never do the things that he was doing now without vetting all of these people and and that sort of thing now McKinley remember he was the guy that was really supported by Big Business um at at this time and uh this election here 1900 is going to be one of the most if not the most per capita spending uh campaigns that presidents ever had and he was again supported by Big Business he was against a lot of the labor unions so this is a time where labor unions this is still like Industrial Revolution um are becoming are growing and becoming more powerful they're becoming more desperate at the time when the government did not protect the rights of workers and those type of people uh were very much candidates to be somebody to hate a president like McKinley um like he was like this isite early signs of improvement McKinley's condition took a turn for the worse due to gang green and infection setting in around the wounds on September 14th 1901 8 days after being shot McKinley died from his wounds and vice president Theodore Roosevelt was immediately sworn in as the 26th president of the United States it was interesting because the These Guys these two had quite different uh political ideologies Roosevelt was actually somebody that was coming up and trying to support the workers and but the thing was like he was definitely going to be a threat now yeah Roosevelt is in his mid-30s there he is going to be the youngest president ever um now he assumes that presidency because he was vice president but back in those days a way that you could actually really destroy an opponent uh for being a future threat was to make him vice president uh back in those days you know put vice president is where a lot of political careers died and they kind of hoped that would happen with Roosevelt and it actually did the opposite because now boom he is the man in charge and uh is going to have yeah a lot of different uh parts of his platform Leon cholos was quickly apprehended at the scene of the crime he confessed to the assassination expressing No Remorse for his actions cholos was tried and convicted of murder he was executed in the electric chair on October 29th 1901 early huh on November 22nd 1963 President John Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas he was there for a political trip to smooth over frictions in the Democratic party before the 1964 presidential campaign remember this is why this was such an important time for the political the political parties at this time were in identity crisis both Republicans Democrats this is the time that people call about like the party switch where um the geography of how people were voting was starting to switch where the South was now kind of in a in the midst of uh uh appealing more to the Republican party and vice versa North and South kind of shift their political alliances and Dallas and Texas being one of those places it's why it's why Kennedy by the way uh brought LBJ aboard because he was a Democrat from um from Texas and was hoping to get that fraction of the vote so yeah Texas being more of a complicated State than it is now for their political affiliations now it's very cut and dry Kennedy was riding in a motorcade through D Plaza with his wife Jacqueline Texas governor John Connelly and Connelly's wife Nelly at 12:30 p.m. as the motorcade passed the Texas School Book Depository shots rang out Kennedy was struck by two bullets one in the back and one in the head Governor Connelly was also wounded Kennedy was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital where doctors tried to save him however the wounds were fatal and Kennedy was pronounced dead at 1: p.m. the nation was plunged into shock and mourning shortly after the assassination Lee Harvey Oswald a former Marine and Defector to the Soviet Union was arrested for the murder of a Dallas police officer JD tippet later he was charged with the assassination of President Kennedy Oswald denied the charges claiming he was a py the Warren Commission was established by President Lynden Johnson to investigate the assassination in 1964 it concluded that Oswald acted alone in Killing Kennedy now you've notied you notice with this a lot of these guys are proud of what they did like they're very much like yeah I did it and I would do it again and I hear my motives and they there's like a background for it these guys like to take pride in that a lot of them know you know doing that as well they're going to probably give up their own life because they're going to be tracked down and that's what also added to the conspiracy with this but you got to go into Oswald's background and he had a very complicated history of being somebody like he was from the military and then he like becomes this like communist sympathizer and goes to the Soviet Union and then said he kind of fell out of love with with uh communism and returns to the United States but then it's like Kennedy it's like he was dealing with the Communists and there were like actual progression being made with thawing out the Cold War cuz you know after this we had Cuban Missile Crisis things are starting to get better so it was like super complicated to understand his motives for how much in his life he flip-flopped on political issues and all of that inconsistency has added so much to the conspiracy there despite this numerous conspiracy theories have persisted suggesting involvement by various groups including the Mafia the CIA the FBI anti-castro Cubans and even elements within the US government Ronald Reagan some of it goes deeper like LBJ does it and and and all of that now what adds to the conspiracy to is he was never able to be put on trial um while being moved from one uh from captivity from one place to another place he was then killed by Jack Ruby Dallas Nightclub owner that shot him um and you know he said it it was because he didn't want you know his his wife Jackie to have to go through like a have to testify and go through all of this like trauma that could come from that and like he's guilty so let's just get rid of it now and not have to go through the judicial process but then that made it crazy too cuz like is he influenced by the mob and oh my gosh it goes on forever and ever and ever all right Reagan this one is very uh interesting because we talked about political motives for like all of these guys this guy was a different story let's see what he on March 30th 1981 President Ronald Reagan was shot while leaving the Hilton Hotel in Washington DC the Secret Service agents acted quickly shoving the president to his limousine and so only one of the bullets fired from the 22 caliber revolver hit Reagan as the president was hit under his left armpit his wound was only noted after he started up blood with the bullet lodged just an inch away from his heart the president's wound was life-threatening and Reagan would stay 12 days in the George Washington University Hospital his shooter was John hinley Jr who had developed a paranoid infatuation with then child actress jod Foster after having watched the film Taxi Driver after his attempts to contact Foster proved fruitless iny came to believe that the only way she would notice him was through the assassination of a president Hinkley thus began to stalk President Jimmy Carter although he had gotten close to Carter he changed his Target to the new president shortly after his inauguration after firing Six Bullets Hinkley was put to the ground and was ultimately found not guilty by reason of insanity so you had like okay he remained in institutional psychiatric care until 2016 Theodore rosev okay so that's why I set this up the way I did you had all these political motivations now you have one that's just a weird stalker guy with no political motivations he didn't care if it was Carter he didn't care if it was Reagan he's like I want this super underage teenage actress you know he's just you know the word for being attracted to the younger people like that and that somehow that would like get him to get her to notice him like she was going to be like oh my gosh I love that this guy did this I'm going to go and reach out to him or something just pure crazy behavior there oh my gosh all right on the evening of October 14th 1912 Theodore Roosevelt was in Milwaukee campaigning for a third term as president while walking to the car a crowd started to gather around the presidential candidate and Roosevelt came face to face with John anank who was armed with a 38 caliber Colt revolver the bullet hit Roosevelt on the right side of his chest but he was protected by a thick 50-page speech manuscript folded in half and the metal case where he stored glasses while shrank was being wrestled to the ground theod Roosevelt asked for Mercy for his shooter restoring the order before the arrival of the police despite the bleeding and the bullets still inside him Roosevelt decided to give the speech he had planned in the Milwaukee Auditorium after his 1hour speech he was rushed to a local hospital and then to Chicago where the doctors decided against removing the bullet Roosevelt would die with it still inside his chest a few years later shrank who claimed to have dreams in which US President William McKinley accused Roosevelt of killing him had been stalking the former president through eight states in order to assassinate him diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia shrank was imprisoned at an institution for the criminally insane where he would die in 1943 Andrew Jackson it's this another weird one where okay I guess there was political motives but the dude thought that McKinley's ghost like he was talking to him that he needed to avenge the death by assassinating Teddy Roosevelt he'd been visited so yeah he's obviously got some skitsophrenia going on there now with that one uh We've talking about and talk I've been talking about on Twitter and other places too about the effect of assassination attempts how they have on the political careers and with Roosevelt it's like it didn't help in in the sense that he didn't win his third term there were other reasons for that too he was going third party created his own party basically um because he just didn't find as much support with the traditional parties but at that time but regardless of that what it did do for him is retroactively has given him a bigger Aura around him like the dude you know cuz he's he's he's very popular uh when people look at him in retrospect right and that it's like he he was this mountain man basically even though he's born in New York and he was so tough and overcame all these obstacles but yeah the dude got shot and then still gave a speech and carried on the rest of his life and didn't even want to seek charges against the guy the guy like he didn't really care he's like no let him be whatever and and um it just like it gave him that Chad Persona that's like the biggest effect I think of this all right Jackson This one is super funny on January 30th 1835 Andrew Jackson the seventh president of the United States was attending the funeral of South Carolina Congressman Warren R Davis at the US capital as Jackson was ceing the funeral he was approached by Richard Lawrence an unemployed house painter with a history of mental illness Lawrence aimed a pistol at Jackson and pulled the trigger but the weapon misfired undeterred Lawrence pulled out a second pistol and fired again but this weapon also misfired describ the sound of both pistols misfiring as resembling a small explosion but remarkably neither shot struck Jackson known for his fiery temper and toughness Jackson immediately charged at Lawrence using his Cane to defend himself several bystanders including Davy Crockett a congressman and American folk hero quickly intervened and subdued Lawrence Jackson was unharmed Richard Lawrence was quickly apprehended during his trial it became clear that he was mentally unstable he believed that Jackson was preventing him from becoming the rightful heir to the British throne and that the US government owed him a large sum of money Lawrence was found not guilty by reason of insanity and spent the rest of his life in various institutions it's like what if you have to like rate these assassins it's like you don't want to respect any of them right but it's like it's like these guys that had like real political motivations they're like yeah I'm doing this for the workers you know what I mean or he's yeah but then there's just the crazy guys and the last one we've been looking at you've been seen by a ghost you're trying to impress a teenager and then this one is like I'm I I should have been the king of England like these are just like funny and I don't know how you how like how you think about these assassins um but all these different categories of them uh these one make for funny stories I guess you just don't want them to be successful in it but like oh my gosh and that that does seem to be the thing like the the ones that are successful are the ones that maybe were I don't want to call them sound of mind but they had more political purpose they they had an objective that has to do with politics but then there's these idiots that keep failing at it that have the weird the much stranger motivations Franklin deleno Roosevelt on February 15th 1933 an assassination attempt was made on president-elect Franklin deleno Roosevelt in Miami Florida Roosevelt was giving a speech from the back of a car to a crowd when an Italian immigrant named JPI zangara fired several shots at him although zangara missed Roosevelt he struck several others wounding four people including Chicago anac CAC later died from his injuries zangara was quickly apprehended and later executed in the electric chair Harry Truman on November 1st 1950 an assassination attempt was made on President Harry Truman at the Blair House in Washington DC where he was staying while the White House was undergoing Renovations two Puerto Rican nationalists Oscar colazo and grelo Tes Sola launched the attack in an effort to draw attention to their cause for Independence KATU and tasa approached the residents with firearms and began TOA shot a guard and managed to get into the grounds while Kazo was apprehended after being shot in the leg the attempt was neutralized and Truman was unharmed both asants were captured and Tes solo was sentenced to death while colazo received a life sentence Gerald so this is where the decision to use assassination attempts to achieve political goals very rarely do that unless you think somehow the person that's going to replace them is going to be more sympathetic to your cause then okay whatever but it's not like with this happening that all of a sudden Puerto Rico would get its independence right there are a bunch of cases to this day about Puerto Rico um whether it's getting Independence as its own country but also to become an actual state that would actually be far more likely and I believe referendums by the people would they all would you know they get that statehood um the big problem uh that the United States has I don't feel like there's a lot of motivation to give Puerto Rico uh its independence because the Americans we've been able to been able to like eat have their cake and eat it too where it's like okay you can tax them because they'll get taxed but they don't vote and so it's kind of bad for Puerto Rico Puerto Ricans to be in the situation that they are but there you actually have like a political motivation unlike the other weirdos that were doing stuff there but again it's like what would this actually accomplish wouldn't happen like that something that just came to my mind about if you're trying to do an assassination to promote a regime change or something that ends up backfiring uh would be something like um uh the assassination of France Ferdinand right that started World War I where he uh was in line for the throne of the austr Hungarian Empire now his father or his Uncle uh France Joseph he was a hardliner against the Bosnian Serbian cause but actually uh friend or FR Ferdinand was actually a more sympathetic to his cause so assassinating him actually had the backward effect there where I guess in some way if you wanted to have more success if you went after France Joseph and uh France Ferdinand becomes the the leader then maybe you could have had some something could change to help the plight of uh you know Bine serbs but what we end up getting is World War I out of it so backwards going backward that for I they are going to get Yugoslavia is going to be created after World War I and you could say that was definitely a step in the right direction for those people but look what it cost faced an assassination attempt on September 5th 1975 Ino California as he exited the California state capital Lynette Squeaky from affiliated with the mans aimed a gun at him quick action by the Secret Service resulted in her immediate arrest Gerald Ford too now uh Marilyn Manson uh Manson his thing was there were these murders right Manson Murders but he didn't he wouldn't conduct them he basically had a cult following where he could influence people that are not in the right State of Mind to be able to do those things but they still pinned him with murders even though his thing was like I didn't actually do the killing of this he would get other people to do this kind of stuff so all right and Ford wasn't president I mean he uh I mean he's president but um also assumed be uh presidency through a the weird uh ladder that it takes to replace a exiting president you know um with Nixon who came out and because he wasn't a vice president either so he kind of made his way to the top but yeah somebody that wouldn't have had a lot of background to him for you would think for for politicians to be targets of assassination but nevertheless just a few weeks after the first attempt President Gerald Ford was again targeted on September 22nd 1975 this time Sarah Jane Moore tried to shoot him as he left a speaking engagement in San Francisco Ford escaped see women do this a lot being swiftly detained by law enforcement Bill Clinton had on October 29th 1994 President Bill Clinton faced an assassination attempt when Francisco Martin Duran fired multiple shots at the White House from a nearby Street Clinton was inside at the time Duran was quickly subdued and later re prison sentence for the attack George W you're not going to get anything done that far oh he did have Bush J I don't know why uh when I first saw the list of all the presidents I didn't see him because a lot of people don't talk about his that that attempt what a lot of people talk about right now so with the the Trump stuff most people are you know they say are referring to like the last time this happened was with ran and because it was much closer of an attempt than what's going to happen with these guys but yeah people forget that like basically it's like almost every president has some attempt of some severity during a visit to tibisi Georgia on May 10th 2005 President George W Bush was the target of an assassination attempt an asent named Vladimir arutunian attempted to throw a grenade at Bush while he was giving a speech but it failed to detonate the attacker was arrested soon after and Bush remained uninjured Barack Obama in November 2011 21-year-old Oscar romiro Ortega Hernandez attempted to assassinate President Barack Obama by firing shots at the White House from a nearby location believing he was targeting the president Ortega's actions raised significant Security Alarms so the ones you're going to get like you saying in the only one they've said thus far that has been you know like a foreign attempt um because those happen or at least attempts you'll see more and it's usually in response to American foreign policy being involved in the political Affairs and involved militarily with so many countries so you'll see a lot more of these you know attempted in other countries they just don't get talked about very much anyway back he was apprehended shortly after the incident and later sentenced to prison Donald Trump on June 16 2016 an assassination attempt was made on then Presidential candidate Donald Trump at a rally in Las Vegas Nevada a British national named Michael Steven Sanford attempted to seize a police officer's gun with the intent to shoot Trump Sanford approached the officer under the pretense of seeking an autograph before attempting to grab the weapon Sanford was quickly subdued by law enforcement officers on the scene and Trump continued with his rally without incident Sanford later admitted to the plot stating that he had been planning the assassination for about a year and had traveled to Las Vegas specifically for this purpose Donald Trump too so they're going to get to that one too so I mean I they actually brought one up of when they weren't president now if we were to do a video of of of candidates for presidents then you have a bunch more you can get into RFK and and others but um yeah that would be be another one um I don't think I had heard of that one all right is this one the one from just recent on July 13th 2024 when presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump was at a campaign rally he was hit on the Year by a gunshot fired by Matthew Crooks a 20-year-old man from Pennsylvania one civilian was also killed while two others were critically injured the shooter was quickly neutralized by a secret service agent this was the first time a presidential candidate was injured as well as a former president in over 40 years if you want to discuss this video or suggest an idea for the next one join my Discord is that right for candidates and again does it just come down to severity of that I got to double check on that that that came up in our discussion uh we had a panel discussion on my my Channel with uh Mr be vlogging through history cynical historian and Emperor tiger star we were talking about that um I got to go back to to look at that anyways you guys should check that video out all right final thoughts all right good little quick explainer that's what uh he does there so hopefully I was able to add a little bit and get some of my thoughts at piecing together the different types of Assassins the ones that are politically motivated the ones that have just weird other things going for them and making sense of it all so we'll see what happens uh we're still you know can see what effect this could have happen on the current um presidential race that's going on right now CU again I'm making this this is uh A Late July of 2024 we're still about 100 days away from the election we'll see what happens uh polls you know haven't changed very much with with you know what um I thought it might jump up Trump a little bit more but now what's changed things is since then and it's been a crazy 10 days or so um you also had Biden dropping out of the race so that also affected the poll so we may never know exactly what political changes or in support could happen from that Trump assassination attempt because so much has happened in a very short period since then all right with that thanks for joining me we'll see you all next time thank you to the patreon pledgers and YouTube members as we're headed out we'll see you next time bye [Music] a [Music]