<P> Assassination attempts and plots on Presidents of the United States have been numerous : more than 30 attempts to kill sitting and former presidents and presidents - elect are known . Four sitting presidents have been killed , all of them by gunshot : Abraham Lincoln ( the 16th President ) , James A. Garfield ( the 20th President ) , William McKinley ( the 25th President ) and John F. Kennedy ( the 35th President ) . Two presidents were injured in attempted assassinations , also by gunshot : Theodore Roosevelt ( the 26th President ; although not in office at the time ) and Ronald Reagan ( the 40th President ) . </P>
<P> Assassination attempts and plots on Presidents of the United States have been numerous : more than 30 attempts to kill sitting and former presidents and presidents - elect are known . Four sitting presidents have been killed , all of them by gunshot : Abraham Lincoln ( the 16th President ) , James A. Garfield ( the 20th President ) , William McKinley ( the 25th President ) and John F. Kennedy ( the 35th President ) . Two presidents were injured in attempted assassinations , also by gunshot : Theodore Roosevelt ( the 26th President ; although not in office at the time ) and Ronald Reagan ( the 40th President ) . </P>
who was the last us president to be assassinated
who was the last us president to be assassinated
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy