USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On January 30, 1835, Andrew Jackson becomes the first American president to experience an assassination attempt. Richard Lawrence, an unemployed house painter, approached Jackson as he left a congressional funeral held in the House chamber of the Capitol building and shot at him, but his gun misfired.

Detailed explanation-2: -John F. Kennedy Kennedy was riding with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally’s wife Nellie when he was fatally shot by former U.S. Marine and American defector Lee Harvey Oswald from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lawrence attempted to shoot President Andrew Jackson outside the United States Capitol on January 30, 1835. At trial, Lawrence was found not guilty by reason of insanity and spent the remainder of his life in insane asylums. Washington, D.C., U.S. Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

Detailed explanation-4: -On March 30, 1981, President Reagan was leaving the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., where he had been talking to 5, 000 members of the AFL-CIO when several shots were fired. John Hinckley, Jr., fired his . 22 caliber revolver with “devastator” bullets at the President and his security team.

Detailed explanation-5: -Andrew Jackson was the first to be elected president by appealing to the mass of voters rather than the party elite. He established the principle that states may not disregard federal law.