{"id":82540,"date":"2026-04-30T09:52:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82540"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:52:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:52:04","slug":"presidents-who-survived-assassination-attempts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/presidents-who-survived-assassination-attempts\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidents Who Survived Assassination Attempts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The core list is this: four presidents were assassinated \u2014 Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>Others survived attempts, including Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Gerald Ford (twice), Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump (thrice).<\/p>\n<p>Teddy Roosevelt was shot in the chest before a campaign speech. A folded speech manuscript and eyeglass case slowed the bullet. He famously gave the speech anyway before seeking treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Some lists also include plots, mail attacks, White House attacks, or threats where the president was not directly in immediate physical danger. Examples include attempted ricin mailings, aircraft-hijacking plots, and people crashing vehicles near the White House. They are serious, but historians usually separate them from direct assassination attempts like Jackson, Truman, Ford, Reagan, Bush, and Trump.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1777542724\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Presidents Who Survived Assassination Attempts\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The core list is this: four presidents were assassinated \u2014 Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy. Others survived attempts, including Andrew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82541,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82540\/revisions\/82541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}