How Many Presidents Have ALMOST Been ASSASSINATED? (a lot)

[@thaddeuspine]

Six years after Reagan's assassination attempt, he was giving a speech in West Berlin when a nearby balloon popped. Reagan responded with a simple but well timed "Missed me."

[@OldOneTooth]

I wonder how the crowd at the rnc would have reacted to balloons readied for the drop popping. I suspect everyone there was very judicious about not popping them when they did drop.

[@MajorGore]

Reagan was really funny, that's basically all I know about his presidency.

[@thaddeuspine]

@@MajorGore I wasn't alive for it either. I just know he was funny, and half the internet despises him for some reason.

[@TheGreatDanish]

​@thaddeuspine Raegan is responsible for the raising inequality in America by kickstarting the slowly growing corporate domination of our nation. He championed "trickle down economics" and the disastrous war on drugs. He was a charismatic person but he was a disaster for our nation.

[@christianholbrook2686]

​@thaddeuspine Like alot of president's Reagan had his good points and bad points. He lead the country during a time of relative economic prosperity, put severe pressure on the Soviet Union and East Germany, and was a charismatic and well spoken orator. On the other hand Reagan began the disastrous war on drugs and was noted for relying heavily on his cabinet, rather than make decisions himself. He was also one of the oldest president's ever at the time, but that's not much of a criticism considering the age of our recent presidents.

[@Ray-m9t]

I truly appreciate that you are having this conversation with as little political bias as you have. This is the kind of approach we all should have in relation to history, education, and politics.

[@KamikazeMedias]

Its pretty rare these days.

[@STRAKAZulu]

As neutral as possible, just giving the facts as they happened.

[@Xeirn]

It is very refreshing.

[@chase5298]

Hard to be unbiased against a convicted felon/rapist though to be fair

[@thomashaapalainen4108]

To be fair about the guy with Kennedy. I'd rather be in the electric chair than a 1960s mental institution.

[@themurmeli88]

That's quite a shocking statement. You ought to be careful in current times, someone might blow a fuse with such off the grid opinions.

[@FortuneZer0]

Theres very little difference..... in amperage....

[@thomashaapalainen4108]

@themurmeli88 look into the conditions of a 1960s pysch ward. It was worse than any prison. Your dignity and humanity died at the front door. U fortunately you "lived" for many years after that.

[@GrimDim]

😬​ never speak again@@themurmeli88

[@A_Sad_Adult]

​@@thomashaapalainen4108 He was making a joke, dude

[@spartanhawk7637]

I think Andrew Jackson has the best story for an attempted assassination despite my adoration of Teddy "the OG badass" Roosevelt. Imagine being his attempted killer. You're hiding behind a blind corner with a flintlock, draw, misfire. Draw your other weapon, click, another misfire. It's at that moment you remember "Oh yeah, Andrew Jackson is a former military man. This is gonna really hurt" as you see his cane coming in at your forehead clocking 30 MPH.

[@legoeasycompany]

I always laughed reading about how it was the first case in US history and how Jackson's aides had to literally save his wouldbe-er from getting caned to death in the immediate aftermath. Old Hickory wasn't one the type of guy you mess with

[@LegendStormcrow]

He tried to ambush Jackson because Jackson was a renowned duelist. Not only did he lose his advantage, but even if he had a 3rd pistol or a sword it was over.

[@chase5298]

@@legoeasycompany let's not sing the praises of a man who perpetrated a genocide.

[@Wolfgang-i2x]

I think Teddy’s is better, but Andrew Jackson’s is still hilarious.

[@nonverbalpie8151]

I just find it funny that Hoover's main concern wasn't that he was almost assassinated, but about his wife potentially finding out.

[@dridtheasexualredneck6047]

It's understandable though

[@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n]

Andrew Jackson nearly beat his would-be assassin, Richard Lawrence, to a pulp with his cane! People had to pull him off poor Lawrence!

[@articcenturion8387]

Davey Crockett was trying to pull the President off him. Shit was insane.

[@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n]

@@articcenturion8387Old Hickory still had some fight in him!

[@pieceofschmidtgamer]

@@articcenturion8387 Crockett: "Sir, sir! I think you made your point!" Jackson: "No! Not until I've given him my point!"

[@chase5298]

@@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n lets not sing the praise of a horrible racist who perpetrated a genocide.

[@STRAKAZulu]

For an excellent breakdown on the weapons involved, Brandon Herrera just posted a video about just how lucky former President Trump was.

[@STRAKAZulu]

And, if memory serves, Garfield would have survived if his doctors had left it alone.

[@dean_l33]

​@@STRAKAZulu Big oof if true

[@jacksonthompson7099]

​@@dean_l33Yeah being sterile wasn't a known thing during his time, sanitization wasn't thing really until I believe the Spanish American war where a Red Cross nurse created the sanitary standards. The sign of a good doctor back then was blood stained clothes and whatever else was on it which would cause wide spread infections etc. There was also a doc that count dankula covered where he could amputate a limb in under 30 or 60 seconds cause alot of doctors would have second thoughts etc but he also was very santitary but he was a outlier. Medical history in the 1800's was wild! There was some scientist who experimented on himself with a whole host of gases and mixtures trying to basically find knockout gas for patients. He was successful and invented it.

[@nathandanner4030]

It didn't actually turn out the way that Brandon planned because; the Video also shows that there is nearly No way that that gun firing the rounds he was using would have done the damage to TRUMP's Ear that we can see in the photos...if you watch the shot at 420 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKTZe62cjb98Z5o you will see that it nearly splits the ear in 2 Pieces. There is just too much energy in a regular rifle round to not do more damage. I suspect that TRUMP's ear was hit by a Rifle firing Sub-Sonic Rounds with much less energy.

[@freedomscale2957]

Or brandon shot him within 20 yards so he could accurately hit the target while the shooter shot him at 130 yards.

[@Demonetised_]

I genuinely love your channel and how you present yourself in your videos. I find them very easy to watch and you hide your political views so well and do your absolute hardest to remain neutral.

[@balazscsotai8354]

Probably because he's also annoyed by the polarised American political landscape. That you're worse than the most brutal dictators imaginable if you dare support the opposition. And as a Hungarian who watched his country deteriorate more and more thanks for a man who's in power almost 2 decades at this point, I consider ya'll privileged and lucky that one person only can serve 2 terms.

[@DaVinciwithaphaser]

I hear you and Gabbie talk about all kinds of amazing history and forget y’all are living through the same crisis as me.

[@MythicFool]

Ah yes, the oh so terribly dangerous forklift. A true terror weapon if ever there was one.

[@ZombieLogic101]

This is a breath of fresh air.....a view on this shooting that's flat and no bull crap static. Just clear simple facts. Thank you sir!

[@guynemer53]

Still wild that this happened less than 30 miles from me and one of my friends was there, about 75 yards from the stage.

[@hellboundchaoscommand7567]

This went from the biggest news to the second biggest news of the week fairly quickly

[@jacobhuff3748]

Mark Felton has done video on past assassination attempts in the last 50 years. Yeah, let's just say a lot of luck or incompetence has been a saving grace is an understatement except for Reagan which was a hit by a ricochet, 😅. If you're interested in another video idea, Japan has a scary history of assassination attempts of leadership post end of isolation especially in the lead up to WW2. I didn't know that the guy who paralyzed George Wallace was originally after Nixon.

[@GrumpyOldMan-be9vc]

The Japanese Government from 1880 til at least 1936 was one built with assassinations, and very few executions resulting from said crime.

[@vguyver2]

Several trivia notes for Lincoln and Booth: The entire Booth family has had various weird events involving political figures. Edwin Thomas Booth, brother of John, was a supporters of President Lincoln. He would later suffer various deaths threats and an assassination attempt on himself after Lincoln's death. Edwin would later save the life of Robert Lincoln (the son of Abraham Lincoln, as he nearly fell off into the train tracks of a overly crowded train in motion as he lost Balance. Edwin happened to notice him and pulled him in, Robert thanked him for it. Junius Brutus Booth, their father had written letters threatening to kill a prior US President Andrew Jackson. The letters were written before the attempted assassination on his life that same year. The Booth Family eventually changed names, one branch later changed their surname to Grossman, and again into Crossman as the family had members fighting in both World Wars and didn't want to be associated for Germans. Regarding Lincoln's death, there are historians who argue Lincoln have lived if not for his Doctors. Like President Garfield, he developed complications from infection when all the doctors who had arrived also stuck their unsterilized fingers into his bullet wounds trying to feel it's path. Not once, twice, more than three times according to medical records. During Lincoln's assassination attempt, another was attempted at both Andrew Johnson, his Vice President and Lincoln's immediate successor, and Secretary of State William Seward who also survived. I believe this makes Andrew Johnson the first out of three Vice president to be targeted and the only one have gained office after surviving one and still recovering from an assassination attempt.

[@dark_fire_ice]

Dissatisfied youth are the greatest threat to society; when will they ever learn, when will they, ever, learn

[@Matthew_Geer]

I think the photo used for Raymond Harvey was actually one of Lee Harvey Oswald. Could be wrong though.

[@johncarey5513]

You're right. It's the first image you get if you search Harvey's name.

[@Will-xf3qe]

Kinda funny how there was 2 guys with Lee Harvey in their name that tried or succeeded in presidential assassinations

[@joelellis7035]

The Lee Harvey incident with Carter probably sparked a line in "My Fellow Americans".

[@theonefromthepast6933]

No one will ever convince me otherwise the blue marble picture is the greatest picture mankind is ever created

[@MeanBeanComedy]

Nah, it's cringe.

[@theonefromthepast6933]

@@MeanBeanComedy How?

[@elibolton6235]

The precedent that this sets is horrifying, and I need to get outta this place before it gets worse lol

[@Bruce-qb3vu]

I was just thinking about how crazy the Truman assassination attempt was

[@jonkepko9217]

Nice work on the research. Very informative.

[@GrumpyOldMan-be9vc]

When Wilkes would eventually get into his Booth...I see you

[@Drkfox]

Just shared this to Timmy's tweeter post.

[@TheKiltedGerman]

Surprised I wasn't aware of some of these.

[@figo3554]

Topical, but nesccary to cover. Glad you're doing it!

[@reilley26]

Shook that so many have happened during my lifetime and I didn't know about any of then before this video

[@bigc9464]

I remember you talking about the bull moose and mentioning doing a video related him somehow, I think this was sooner than expected

[@sharkchaos5160]

Great video as always.

[@dr1742]

Very educational.

[@Xamry]

14:25 he reminds me of what Mr. Monopoly wears from the monopoly board game 😂

[@ArottingPast]

Seeing as the Halberd is your favorite weapon i suggest making a new video reacting to the Japanese sword teacher using the halberd! Great channel and would like to see you talk about it! Cheers

[@hydronpowers9014]

Ree Tardy Oswald almost lit the country on fire 😂

[@Fro_Jangles]

Some of these were on comical villain levels.

[@RebornBlueHaze]

Fun and interesting fact: John Hinkley Jr. has a KZbin Channel.

[@gabrielrussell5531]

The clear pattern, is that with the distinct exception of Lincoln, most of these are not aboot the President's particular politics, but rather that they are President.

[@kwad8]

You missed the attempt on Trump with the British national tring to grab a police officers gun to use on Trump at a rally.

[@Xamry]

18:03 I can’t be mad at them for going crazy on the President. Their land was literally getting bombed and they were being machine gunned down around that time. These were also US citizens.

[@EamonCoyle]

You do realise you just put Lee Harvey Oswald's picture on the Jimmy Carter one right......

[@nickverbree]

I knew someone else would have caught this

[@MeanBeanComedy]

I made my comment, too. Weird mistake!

[@Wavy_Gravy]

Another one just happened. Crazy how they ignore mental health and focusing on bipartisan talking points.

[@waynesworldofsci-tech]

I watched the Kennedy assassination live on tv, was home from school sick. It was wild.

[@zeroyuki92]

"United States is arguably more divided than it has ever been" Not to downplay the current discord, but I need to be pedantic here: y'all were in a full blown civil war once. Pretty sure it would be still more decisive than right now.

[@louishart6725]

Minor correction-You have a picture of Kennedy’s assassin Lee Harvey Oswald for Carter’s attempted assassin.

[@patrickhasachannel]

You left out the wildest part about Hinckley, he was trying to impress Jodie Foster, a child actor known for portraying a SW. Hinckley is not right in the head

[@holttraxx1721]

Funny enough, the shooting of Wallis actually gave him a “come to Jesus moment.” And he ended his racist streak and became an advocate for integration.

[@Thatonebuffdude]

Fun fact John Hinckley jr is now a musician and has some original songs on KZbin

[@FortuneZer0]

17:00 missing the time a sertain escort could have sunk the battleship he was on.

[@Andy-xt3mh]

It does seem pretty normal to have US assesination attempts. 1812 is our last PM assesination and 1437 last monarch assesinated.

[@newtonianpineapple2817]

21:15 that plan sounds very familiar...

[@NoPantsBaby]

You could almost say you ain't a real president till someone takes a swing at you.

[@RocRolDis]

This is the song written for the crazy plot. This is the plot: Flip the president's car, He tried to kill me with a forklift! Ole!

[@steeldrago73]

I suspect there are far more than we know about.

[@Xamry]

I’m glad public executions 5:02 of this type don’t happen in modern days

[@MrFacemeltify]

How on God's green earth was this the top recommend video on the game grumps "and then I fired and I missed" video?!?

[@rhinosblades4205]

They were calling that the shooter was there for almost 15 minutes the secret service failed

[@kingericson490]

almost all of these people seem super crazy

[@TIHISTS]

35:27 i think ive seen this somewhere...

[@americankid7782]

“To many of you this isn’t a super” Yeah I’m surprised nobody tried sooner. “This is coming many days after the event took place.” Oh, that’s what you meant…

[@Philip271828]

@6:44 it's probably not that unlikely. If there are common modes (duff powder, bad transport, bad caps, same idiot loaded both pistols etc) you'll be able to cut the likelihood of consecutive misfires by quite a bit.

[@Xamry]

11:38 wow I’d never seen the word “ebbed” before 😮

[@bigbuddah8894]

im kind of tired of living through a sabaton song

[@OldOneTooth]

i saw the musical assassins so fairly good idea

[@BlueMoon-hj1xe]

I didn't know anyone tried to shoot taft

[@martinpat94]

I mean with the billions of people that live here I guess it is inevitable that a couple of them would try this sort of thing. It will happen again and all we can do is try to keep cool heads when it does.

[@taiyeebmuhtadi]

kindly make a video on Bangladesh on its recent unrest. it has a nice history and backstory as well, it's interesting if you decide to check it out. thanks

[@corbinlittle4746]

I just want yall to know. Streams of the song many men have trippled after trump got shot

[@Amizare1]

Fun fact Hinkley is out now and makes music on KZbin

[@corwinhyatt519]

I doubt I'm alone in this, but it wasn't surprising that it happened. With the sheer amount of vitriol being thrown back and forth between the factions the last few of decades, escalating massively in the last several years, it was only a matter of when, not if, something like this would happen. This shit has been building for generations. The only question I have is is this the stone that breaks the slope? Edit: "A bystander would grab Moore's arm," might want to look up who that "bystander" was and what ended up happening to them. It's rather fucked up, even as political plays go.

[@masonkuykendall]

I may be misremembering but I could have sworn there was yet another attempt on trumps life in like 2016 in a stadium or theatre or something of that type of seating arraignment. Does anyone else remember this?

[@sdbw1990]

I think you're referring to when Republican congressmen were shot at

[@andyfriederichsen]

@@sdbw1990 No, there was someone at a rally in 2016 who grabbed a security guard's sidearm and tried to shoot Donald.

[@andyfriederichsen]

@@sdbw1990 Wrong.

[@sdbw1990]

@@andyfriederichsen ok? I wasn't sure. Can you correct what this person is referring to?

[@andyfriederichsen]

@@sdbw1990 Someone grabbed a guard's weapon at a rally and tried to use it on Donald. I hope this actually goes through unlike my other reply I tried to send (YT loves to hide comments).

[@Xamry]

Oof 😰 Lincoln in a coma for 9hrs

[@LegendStormcrow]

Ryan Mcbeth both proved a large portion of the claims of the attack being fake were from bots and found who first claimed the theory.

[@derentius]

Whole thing gives me Caligula vibes

[@piggy201]

The odds for the funs misfiring - Im sure this goes for the case of perfect condition, but who knows what was wrong with them, wrongly loaded etc. So the incredible odds is bit of projection

[@IronicCliche]

The only actual adult on the internet.

[@cebokhumalo602]

Being the US president had to be one of the top 5 most dangerous jobs on the planet... it's actually insane

[@vladimirmihnev9702]

You missed G Washington being bleeded to death by his doctors!

[@james7178]

23:54 That's Lee Harvey Oswald whom was already dead by this point

[@naheleshiriki5496]

It's kind of ironic how everyone says "America is better than this!" When more than one president has been unfortunately... Honestly, this is just history repeating itself. I am just as horrified at the casualties and what could have been like everyone else. I'm simply not surprised is the thing.

[@TheHuffmanator]

History never repeats, you'd do well to understand this.

[@naheleshiriki5496]

@@TheHuffmanator I'm sorry but just to clarify seeing how I am pretty dense, that is sarcasm right?

[@TheHuffmanator]

@naheleshiriki5496 Not at all dear. History can never repeat, far too many variables and human will. Ryhme, sure. Though it shall never repeat.

[@Eppydemic]

23:56 thats Lee Harvey Oswald, the guy who shot Kennedy, it even has the Dallas Police text in the photo.....think you got the wrong picture my guy lol

[@byproductofcheese]

I do think at this point we need a new party that is more in the middle between the left and the right. I've been thinking about this for awhile now.

[@dridtheasexualredneck6047]

There technically is but they never get enough votes to be noticed

[@Jongre1512]

Props to Evan Vucci for getting that raised fist photo of Trump, its good

[@B0tch0]

Surprisingly close as well. One would think that protecting the politician would overcome the photo op?

[@christopherbartow7972]

The only cogent comments section on the Internet...nice

[@SnailHatan]

Far more than we know. These are just the stories that got stopped or messed up at the very end. Many more plots were discovered and stopped with time to spare

[@JasonGrace69]

I'm pretty sure the picture at 23:55 is Lee Harvey Oswald and not the Harvey you are referring to

[@Imperial_Navy03]

With all the info that has come out since the attempt, i can say USSS has a lot to answer for on why this happened

[@ProbsNotLiam]

Secret JD Vance is talking

[@holttraxx1721]

Also, did you only count attempts while the person was a president/former president? Because there were 2 attempts on Trump before he became president.

[@MrJibjab01]

thats it shinzo abe saved trump

[@goobertoober95]

We live in wild times

[@vladimirmihnev9702]

Florida man will be Florida man😂

[@joewilson3393]

Regarding the first story, the idea that the people who rebelled against the current government would execute someone for rebelling against the government is kind of wild, if you think about it.

[@cryptooyster9244]

Is there chance to have history about Algeria in terms of economic

[@rkramer5629]

Can’t believe you didn’t mention Reagan’s “missed me” after the attack! This video could use a bit of levity…

[@VicAusTaxiTruckie]

Random neutral comment

[@radikaldesignz]

Random neutral response

[@admiraltorvosaurus8513]

Random neutral response part 2

[@Cailus3542]

*Insert obligatory insult here.*

[@mattkuhn6634]

Just a quick note, at 23:55, the picture y'all are showing there is Lee Harvey Oswald, not Raymond Lee Harvey. Easy to see how googling "Raymond Lee Harvey mugshot" would get you the wrong result though!

[@DakotaBroskie]

Yeahhh my fault on the editing side of things, everything starts blending together after hours of looking at these guys lol

[@cantsay2205]

It's just so embarrassing. We should be better than this.

[@Heranara]

So the Shoe doesn't count? 👞

[@marlonelias]

He’s good looking!.!.

[@Drkfox]

He wasn't pushed to the ground SS jumped on top of him once he dropped to the ground.

[@Dragno666]

I had a funny reaction to seeing SS in a comment. I now think the secret service needs to rename. Jesus.😂

[@Cailus3542]

​@@Dragno666 Yeah, I bet that they were quite miffed at the time, and probably remain so today. Unfortunate coincidence.

[@TheHuffmanator]

​@@Cailus3542in 1865? Not too bright, are you bub?

[@akg_table]

29:45 what is that picture of clinton..