PEOPLE WHO MADE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS ON US PRESIDENTS

BILL CLINTON (1994)

On January 21st, Ronald Gene Barbour, a retired military officer,

planned to assassinate Clinton while he was jogging. He

returned to Florida without having fired the shots but was

arrested shortly thereafter.

BILL CLINTON (1994)

Later that same year, on September 12th, Frank Eugene Corder,

a truck driver from Maryland, died while deliberately crashing a

Cessna into the White House lawn. He had allegedly intended to

hit the White House itself, but Clinton was not there anyway.

BILL CLINTON (1994)

Just over a month later, on October 29th, Francisco Martin Duran

began to fire shots at the White House but was tackled by tourists.

BILL CLINTON (1996)

During a visit to the Philippines the Secret Service rerouted

Clinton’s motorcade due to suspicions of an attack on a

particular bridge. A bomb was later found at the location.

Osama bin Laden was seen as being behind the plot.

GEORGE W. BUSH (2005)

On May 10th, while Bush was giving a speech Tbilisi, Georgia, 

Vladimir Arutyunian threw a live grenade at the president. Because

he had wrapped his handkerchief tightly around it, the grenade

did not explode. Although Arutyunian escaped, he was

arrested several weeks later.

BARACK OBAMA (2008)

Paul Schlesselman and Daniel Cowart, two white supremacists,

were arrested on October 22nd for planning to drive their car

towards Obama and opening fire.

BARACK OBAMA (2009)

A Syrian man pretending to be an Al-Jazeera news reporter was

arrested by Turkish authorities for planning to stab Obama

at a summit in Istanbul in April.

BARACK OBAMA (2011)

In November, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez opened fire on the

White House. Although nobody was injured, the incident led to the

director of the Secret Service resigning due to the way the

situation was mismanaged.