USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Most assassination plotters were arrested and punished by execution or lengthy detainment in a prison or insane asylum. Since the vice president, the successor of a removed president, shares the president’s political party affiliation, the death of the president is unlikely to result in major policy changes.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the course of the history of the United States four Presidents have been assassinated, within less than 100 years, beginning with Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Attempts were also made on the lives of two other Presidents, one President-elect, and one ex-President.