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09:27 (IST), July 14

Shooting at Donald Trump rally: How attacks on presidents and candidates have shaped US history

The shooting of former President Donald Trump on Saturday was just the latest act of political violence that has often marked U.S. history. Trump said he was “fine” after a bullet grazed his ear at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The attacker was killed by intelligence agents and another person at the event died. Authorities are investigating Saturday’s attack as an attempted murder.

The assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, and William McKinley eventually led to the Secret Service protecting him, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy shocked the nation and led to even tighter security measures around the president. Yet Gerald Ford was the target of two high-profile assassination attempts within 18 days, and Ronald Reagan was seriously wounded by a gunman’s bullet early in his presidency in 1981.