Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts, Part 5: Barack Obama

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History Unplugged

Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 5 February 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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With the election of America's first African-American president in 2008, many feared that the presidency of Barack Obama would bring out the most reactionary elements in society and end his life in assassination. Did Obama's eight years as president bring out more assassination attempts than other presidents or merely those of different ideological stripes? Find out in the final part in this series on presidential assassination attempts.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast.
0:05.4	The unscripted show that celebrates unsung heroes, Mythbust's historical lies, and rediscoveres
0:11.9	the forgotten stories that changed our world.
0:15.5	I'm your host, Scott Rank.
0:20.5	Hi everyone, welcome to the final part in our series on assassination attempts against
0:24.8	presidents.
0:26.0	We've looked at assassination attempts against Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald
0:31.3	Reagan, and Bill Clinton.
0:33.0	In the final episode, we're looking at threats and assassination attempts against Barack
0:36.6	Obama.
0:37.8	And for this podcast, this is the most recent history I've ever done on this show.
0:42.3	I've gone all the way back to ancient Sumeria, spent a lot of time in ancient world with
0:45.9	Greeks and Romans and the Middle Ages, a little bit in the 19th century and some in the
0:50.6	early 20th century.
0:52.3	But this may be with only one or two exceptions, the only podcast episode I've done based
0:57.1	in the 21st century.
0:58.4	Anyway, let's jump into this episode and see if the profile of assassins and the nature
1:03.6	of assassination attempts against Barack Obama is similar or different to those of previous
1:08.3	presidents.
1:09.9	Many people thought that Barack Obama would be specifically targeted for assassination
1:14.9	because he was the first African American president of the United States.
1:19.5	Horus Lesson, a novelist in Nobel laureate, said he would probably not last long a black
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