Trump rally shooting raises concerns of political violence. Here’s a look at past attacks against U.S. presidents and candidates.

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Trump rally ********* raises concerns of political *********. Here’s a look at past attacks against U.S. presidents and candidates.

A ********* at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday that injured former President Donald Trump has heightened concerns about political ********* and increased awareness of past attacks and ************** attempts against presidents and candidates. 

In a social media post shared on Saturday night, Trump thanked law enforcement officials for their quick actions after he was “shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear.”

The Butler County district attorney confirms to CBS Pittsburgh station KDKA that two people are ***** — the gunman and an audience member. Two law enforcement sources told CBS News the gunman was ******* by a Secret Service *******. Two other attendees are in critical condition.

Reporters heard numerous shots and Secret Service rushed the stage. Video captured by CBS News shows Trump touching his ear and then crouching to the ground. Some blood could be seen on his face.

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BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA – JULY 13: *********** presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage by U.S. Secret Service agents after being grazed by a bullet during a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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Past direct attacks against presidents and candidates

Direct assaults against presidents, presidents-elect, and candidates have occurred on 15 separate occasions, with five resulting in ******,

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compiled by the Congressional Research Service. That number does not include the latest incident involving Trump.  

The Congressional Research Service report says presidents who survived attacks include Gerald R. Ford (twice in 1975), Ronald W. Reagan (a near-fatal ********* in 1981), Bill Clinton (when the White House was fired upon in 1994), and George W. Bush (when an attacker threw a grenade that did not explode towards him and the president of Georgia during an event in Tbilisi in 2005). 

Two others who served as president and were attacked are Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, when he was president-elect, and Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, when he was seeking the presidency after being out of office for nearly four years.

Two other presidential candidates —Robert F. Kennedy, who was ******* in 1968, and George C. Wallace, who was seriously wounded in 1972— were also victims of direct assaults, according to the report compiled by the Congressional Research Service.  

Presidents who were assassinated 

Four presidents — Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy — have been assassinated.

Of the 15 attacks listed in the report, only the Lincoln ************** was the result of a broad ***********, the report says. Of course, many *********** theories surround many of these events.

Only one other incident “involved more than one participant,” the report says, in reference to a 1950 ******** on the Blair House, the temporary residence of President Harry S. Truman. No evidence of other conspirators emerged from the subsequent investigation or prosecution, the report says. 

Of the 15 direct assaults, “11 relied upon pistols, two on automatic weapons, one on a rifle, and one on a grenade,” according to the result. All but two of the attacks (both against former president Ford) were committed by men. 

First documented ******* against a president

According to the Congressional Research Service, the first ******* occurred in 1835, when an attacker’s ******* misfired against President Andrew Jackson. The attacker, Richard Lawrence, was declared insane. He said “Jackson was preventing him from obtaining large sums of money and was ruining the country,” the report says.

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