In 1981, there was an assassination attempt by John Hinckley, Jr. against President Ronald Reagan.
In 1975, followers of Charles Manson attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford. Later in the same year, another radical, Sara Jane Moore, attempted to shoot Ford in San Diego.
In 1901, Republican President William McKinley was shot and killed by Leon Czolgosz, the radical son of Polish immigrants.
In 1865, Republican President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Boothe, a pro-Confederate racist. Wilkes was named after John Wilkes, a famous British radical of the 18th century.
Not included here is the assassination of JF Kennedy by Communist Lee Harvey Oswald, or the attempted assassination of FD Roosevelt by anti-capitalist Italian American Giuseppe Zangara in 1933 that resulted in the death of Chicago mayor Cermak and several others.
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