| Show Standard-Examin- Asseissiiinieoftii® m®i!we§ death Booth evidently fired his derringer in Ford’s Theater to avenge his beloved South subdued by the Union under Lincoln’s leadership Others by various accounts have armed themselves and taken aim at presidents be- cause they were against all government because they were denied jobs because ghosts told them to or from other motives too bizarre to be believed Now we are told a young man may have followed in their footsteps because he was besotted with a young actress he apparently had seen in the movies The motive attributed to John W Hinckley Jr may seem an odd one for striking at a national leader but a glance through American history shows it is not any more odd than some others The shooting of President Reagan brought to nine the number of American presidents who have been the objects of assassination attempts Four were killed Four others before Reagan survived The motives of the assassins ranged from the political to the personal The first president to encounter a would-b- e assassin was Andrew Jackson who was accosthouse painter named ed by an Richard Lawrence after leaving a congressman’s funeral in the House chamber on Jan 3 out-of-wo- rk 1835 Lawrence whose pistol misfired first told police that Jackson had killed his father When it turned out Lawrence was an Englishman whose parents had never been in America he said he was the heir to the English throne and wanted to do away with Jackson to strengthen his own claim to be king Lawrence was found insane Booth like others may have been seeking public attention when he killed Lincoln on April 14 1865 He told friends before the shooting “ I’ll be the most famous man in America” Booth was shot to death by soldiers who set afire the barn in which he was hiding Charles Guiteau 39 who fatally shot President James A Garfield at a Washington railroad station on July 2 1881 had been trying to get himself appointed ambassador to Austria or d consul in Paris A Stalwart or conservative Republican he said he become “depressed” after Garfield appointed a liberal to a customs post in New York and decided that “if the president was out of the way this whole thing would be solved” Guiteau was hanged Theodore Roosevelt met with the next assassination attempt on Oct 14 1912 in Milwaukee As an Roosevelt was campaignto a return the White House on the Bull ing for Moose ticket when he was shot in the chest by John Schrank 36 a former saloon keeper Folded papers and a metal glasses case in Roosevelt’s breast pocket blunted the bullet’s impact and saved him serious injury Schrank said the spirit of McKinley appeared to him pointed at Roosevelt and said “Avenge my death” Schrank lived out his life in mental Sunday June 28 1981 A 1 a os ©did os ft he ©ssossms WASHINGTON (AP) — “Our cause being almost lost something decisive and great must be done” John Wilkes Booth wrote in his diary The next night he shot Abraham Lincoln to er French Connection crowd much as Reagan was last Monday — when Guiseppe Zangara opened fire with a revolver Zangara missed FDR but fatally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak “I’d kill any king or president” Zangara shouted in the courtroom where he was sentenced to Enjoy These Blockbuster and the Kid death Two Puerto Rican nationalists stormed Blair House with guns blazing on Nov 1 1950 while President Harry S Truman was living in the White House guest quarters Truman was unhurt but one of the assailants and one guard were killed in an exchange of gunfire The other would-b- e assassin Oscar Callazo was sentenced to life in prison and was paroled Sept 10 1979 by President Jimmy Carter Lee Harvey Oswald denied knowing anything about President John F Kennedy when he was arrested for Kennedy’s murder in Dallas on Nov 23 1963 Oswald was gunned down in his own turn by Jack Ruby before he could be tried Some theorists have pictured him as the tool of a conspiracy but most scholars agree he acted alone He sympathized with 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