The shooting against former US President Donald Trump at a rally in the state of Pennsylvania, which the Federal Bureau for the investigation of the United States as attempted murder, it became an occasion for Agence France-Presse to draw historical parallels with similar cases of political violence in the history of the United States.
AFP notes that the most recent assassination attempt on a US president to date was against Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
The history of the USA is marked by the assassinations of several presidents, including John Kennedy in 1963, and by attempts to assassinate presidents, BTA recalls.
Four US presidents have been assassinated while in office.
The first of them in chronological order is Abraham Lincoln. He was assassinated in 1865 in his box at Ford's Theatre. in Washington by actor John Wilkes Booth.
The second person killed was the 20th president of the United States, James Garfield. He died of his wounds after an attack on July 2, 1881 in Washington.
On September 6, 1901, at an exhibition in Buffalo, the twenty-fifth president of the United States, William McKinley, was wounded. He suffers multiple injuries after being shot by an anarchist with a revolver. He died a few days after the attack.
On November 22, 1963, the 35th president of the United States, John Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas.
Assassination attempts were made against Presidents Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.