Presidential
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LINCOLN,
ABRAHAM [1861-1865]
Sixteenth President
Born: February 12, 1809
Died: April 15, 1865
Age at Death: 56
After serving one month of his second term, Abraham Lincoln was
shot the night of April 14, 1865, and died the following morning
at 7:00 AM. An actor, John Wilkes Booth, 27, shot Lincoln at
close range in the back of the head at Ford's Theater in Washington.
The assassination occurred just six days after the end of the
Civil War. Booth was shot and killed when found hiding in a barn
a few miles outside of Washington. Conspiracy theories regarding
Lincoln's death exist to this day, and as an amazing example
of history repeating itself go to the Lincoln-Kennedy similarities. |
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GARFIELD,
JAMES [1881-1881]
Twentieth President
Born: November 19, 1831
Died: September 19, 1881
Age at Death: 49
The bulletins that entered James Garfield probably didn't kill
him, the doctor's did. The twentieth president was shot at the
Baltimore and Potomac Railway Station while in route to his twenty-fifth
class reunion on July 2, 1881. The first shot struck him in the
arm, the second in the back. Doctor's probed for weeks attempting
to discover the location of the second shell and in turn caused
a number of serious infections leading to the President's death
September 19, 1881. The assassin, Charles Guiteau, 39, was hanged
June 30, 1882. |
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McKINLEY,
WILLIAM [1897-1901]
Twenty-fifth President
Born: January 29, 1843
Died: September 14, 1901
Age at Death: 58
William McKinley was shot twice on September 6, 1901, while attending
the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, NY. He survived eight
days and died September 14, 1901. Leon Czolgosz, 28, an anarchist,
was convicted of murder and electrocuted in December after stating
he was proud to have accomplished his goal by killing a "ruler."
Sulfuric acid was spread over his remains for quick decomposition.
It was later learned Czolgosz used the alias Fred Nieman, a name
whose origin is defined as, no man or nobody. |
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KENNEDY,
JOHN [1961-1963]
Thirty-fifth President
Born: May 29, 1917
Died: November 22, 1963
Age at Death: 46
John Kennedy was shot November 22, 1963, while riding in an open
motorcade in Dallas, Texas. The
President died shortly thereafter. Witness accounts vary as to
the number of shots that rang out as Kennedy's car passed the
Texas Schoolbook Depository. At least two, possibly three bullets
hit the president and Governor John Connally of Texas, who survived.
Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested later that day, but while being
transport from a Texas jail two days later, was gunned down by
Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner. Oswald, 25, once renounced
his U. S. citizenship and lived in Russia for a time. He never
confessed to the crime. Conspiracy theories regarding Kennedy's
death exist to this day, and as an amazing example of history
repeating itself go to the Lincoln-Kennedy similarities. |
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