Assassinated Presidents
Scroll down to see articles about the U.S. presidents who died in office, and the backgrounds and motivations of their assassins
Scroll down to see articles about the U.S. presidents who died in office, and the backgrounds and motivations of their assassins
The following article on Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez is an excerpt from Mel Ayton's Hunting the President: Threats, Plots, and Assassination Attempts—From FDR to Obama. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Perhaps the most dangerous threat to President Obama’s life came from twenty-one-year-old Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, who had criminal…
The following article on copycat killers is an excerpt from Mel Ayton's Hunting the President: Threats, Plots, and Assassination Attempts—From FDR to Obama. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Many assassins and would-be assassins of U.S. presidents were copycat killers obsessed with assassins from the past. Some borrowed…
The following article on assassinated presidents is an excerpt from Mel Ayton's Hunting the President: Threats, Plots, and Assassination Attempts—From FDR to Obama. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The list of assassinated presidents receives a new member approximately every 20-40 years. Here are those who were killed while…
The following article on Isaac Aguigui is an excerpt from Mel Ayton's Hunting the President: Threats, Plots, and Assassination Attempts—From FDR to Obama. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In 2012, Barack Obama was targeted by a domestic terror group of soldiers called F.E.A.R. (“Forever Enduring Always Read”),…
The following article on Terry Kelly ("Khalid Kelly") is an excerpt from Mel Ayton's Hunting the President: Threats, Plots, and Assassination Attempts—From FDR to Obama. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In May 2011, Irish Muslim militant Terry “Khalid” Kelly was arrested for threatening to assassinate President…
The following article on Timothy Ryan Gutierrez is an excerpt from Mel Ayton's Hunting the President: Threats, Plots, and Assassination Attempts—From FDR to Obama. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In 2009, twenty-one-year-old Texan Timothy Ryan Gutierrez hacked into the websites of the U.S. Department of Defense…
The following article on Glendon Scott Crawford is an excerpt from Mel Ayton's Hunting the President: Threats, Plots, and Assassination Attempts—From FDR to Obama. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In 2013, forty-nine-year-old Glendon Scott Crawford and fifty-four-year-old Eric Feight planned to build an X-ray gun to…
The following article on Daniel Cowart is an excerpt from Mel Ayton's Hunting the President: Threats, Plots, and Assassination Attempts—From FDR to Obama. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. n October 2008, twenty-year-old Tennessean Daniel Cowart and eighteen-year-old Arkansan Paul Schlesselman hatched an ambitious and elaborate plot…
The following article on Obama death threats is an excerpt from Mel Ayton's Hunting the President: Threats, Plots, and Assassination Attempts—From FDR to Obama. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Obama was assigned a Secret Service detail equivalent to a full presidential team on May 3, 2007,…
The following article on the Obama Secret Service is an excerpt from Mel Ayton's Hunting the President: Threats, Plots, and Assassination Attempts—From FDR to Obama. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. During Obama’s candidacy, and throughout his first term in office, numerous politicians and celebrities— including his…