US Presidents Who Escaped Assassination

American History Hit

History Hit

America, History

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Lincoln, FDR, Reagan, Clinton, Bush and now Trump. All have been targets of assassination attempts while in or running for office. Listen to this bonus episode from our sister podcast, Dan Snow's History Hit, where host Dan is joined by Professor of American History at Cambridge University Gary Gerstle to take a look at the assassination attempts that could have changed the course of American history and how.

Produced by Dan Snow, Mariana Des Forges and edited by Dougal Patmore.

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0:29.1	podcasts. The image is already iconic.
0:33.0	The image is already iconic.
0:43.0	Former President Donald Trump, standing defiantly,
0:47.0	fist in the air against a cloudless blue sky.
0:50.0	The American flag waves overhead.
0:52.0	Secret service in sunglasses surround him.
0:54.8	A scarlet trail of blood trickles across his face.
0:58.9	Despite his brush with death just seconds before,
1:01.8	saved perhaps by the smallest turn of his head.
1:05.1	Trump instinctively understood how powerful this imagery would be, from this extraordinary
1:10.4	moment at an otherwise routine campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
1:15.0	I say extraordinary, but assassinations and attempted assassinations of U.S.
1:20.0	presidents have sadly happened many times before.
1:24.1	We know the tragically successful ones, of course.
1:27.1	Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, which by the way keep an eye out for two special episodes
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