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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


Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez

Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez

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…

copycat killers

Copycat Killers: Becoming Famous by Becoming Infamous

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…

Assassinated Presidents

Assassinated Presidents: Profiles of Them and Their Killers

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…

Isaac Aguigui

Isaac Aguigui: Militia Leader, Wannabe Presidential Assassin

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”),…

khalid kelly

Khalid Kelly: Irish Would-Be Obama Assassin

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…

Timothy Ryan Gutierrez

Timothy Ryan Gutierrez: The Hacker Who Threatened Obama

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…

Glendon Scott Crawford

Glendon Scott Crawford: Killing Obama with an X-Ray Gun

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…

daniel cowart

Daniel Cowart: White Supremacist, Wannabe President Assassin

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…

obama death threats

Obama Death Threats: From Empty to Serious

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,…

obama secret service

Obama Secret Service: Protecting 44

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…

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