Assassinations

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Four U.S. presidents were assassinated while in office: Abraham Lincoln (1865), James A. Garfield (1881), William McKinley (1901), and John F. Kennedy (1963). Each death reshape...

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Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president to be assassinated, dying on April 15, 1865, eight days after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox. Shot by actor and Confederate...

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