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Four US presidents have been assassinated while in office.
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The FBI is investigating what may have been another assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The incident took place on Sunday at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, where former President Trump was playing golf.
Law enforcement officials said the Secret Service spotted a man with a rifle in the bushes and opened fire on the suspected killer.
According to law enforcement, the suspect fled through bushes and was later apprehended on a highway.
A previous attempt on Trump
In July, Trump was shot during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania by a gunman in what the FBI described as an assassination attempt. The former president got an injury on his ear.
The Congressional Research Service says there have been at least 15 separate attacks against the president, president-elect and candidates, five of which have resulted in death.
Below is a list of other previous attempts on the lives of American leaders, whether successful or not.
Murder
Four US presidents have been assassinated while in office.
Abraham Lincoln: Assassinated in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington.
James Garfield: Shot at a train station in Washington in 1881 and died of his wounds two and a half months later.
William McKinley: Assassinated by an anarchist in Buffalo, New York in 1901.
John F. Kennedy: Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated in Dallas, Texas in 1963 as the president rode his motorcycle.
Leaders who survived the assassination attempt.
Four presidents were wounded but survived assassination attempts while in office or later.
Donald Trump: Trump had just started a campaign speech in Pennsylvania on July 13 when shots started ringing. Trump was shot in the ear. He was taken away by security personnel in a black SUV.
Ronald Reagan: He was shot outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington in 1981. Reagan was wounded when a bullet exited the limousine and hit him under the left armpit.
President Gerald Ford: Survived two attempts on his life in less than three weeks in 1975 unscathed.
Theodore Roosevelt: He was shot in the chest while campaigning in Milwaukee in 1912, but insisted on giving a speech to supporters before being taken to the hospital.
Assassination attacks on other US leaders
Robert F. Kennedy: US presidential candidate, and US senator, Kennedy was assassinated by a gunman at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in 1968.
Alabama Governor George C. Wallace: Candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, he was shot in 1972 and was paralyzed from the waist down.
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