Table of contents:
- More than 100 shrapnel removed from Adolf Hitler after assassination attempt
- Joseph Stalin was always saved by security
- Abraham Lincoln was let down by his love of theater
- Mahatma Gandhi, dying, forgave his murderer
- Lenin left the bandits with a bottle of milk in his hands
- Theodore Roosevelt was saved from the bullet by his speech
- Reagan was hit by a rebound
- John F. Kennedy: death ending the curse
Video: Attempts on the lives of presidents: from the Tekumse curse to lonely psychos
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
50 years ago, on November 22, 1963 at 12.30, a murder occurred in the city of Dallas that changed the course of world history - the 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, died, who did everything to prevent the spread of the Cold War and the global nuclear apocalypse. It is worth noting that many state leaders were attacked, regardless of whether they were dictators or promoted the ideas of equality and humanism.
More than 100 shrapnel removed from Adolf Hitler after assassination attempt
The central figure of the Nazi party simply could not help but attract the attention of the assassins. This man in some mystical way managed to avoid a violent death. According to statistics, there were about 20 attempts on Hitler's life, and at least two of them were undertaken by the USSR during World War II. The first known case of an attempt on Hitler's life occurred on March 1, 1932. Then, not far from Munich, four unknown persons fired at the train in which Hitler was traveling to speak in front of his supporters. The future Fuhrer was not hurt.
The most famous attempt on the life of Adolf Hitler is the July 20, 1944 conspiracy. The purpose of the conspiracy is the assassination of Hitler and the signing of a peace treaty with the allied forces. An explosion thundered at Hitler's headquarters, located in the Görlitz forest near Rastenburg. The conspirators Keitel and Stauffenberg carried a briefcase with an explosive device to the meeting, which was attended by 23 people, and placed it under the table. The explosion thundered at 12.42. Four of those present were killed and some were injured. Hitler survived. About a hundred fragments were removed from him, he was temporarily deaf in one ear, he had a dislocated arm and the hair on the back of his head was singed. During the day, the Fuhrer could not be on his feet. By his order, the execution of the conspirators was turned into humiliating torture and a film was made, which Hitler watched personally.
Joseph Stalin was always saved by security
Several major attempts were prepared on Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. But none of them even ended with the injury of the father of all nations - the protection of the leader was at a very high level. So, in 1939, an assassination attempt was organized against Stalin in his homeland, in the Georgian city of Gori, where Stalin came to rest. The guards exposed the conspiracy of the Georgian Bolsheviks, who believed that Joseph Stalin had betrayed Lenin's cause. It is known that in 1939 Germany decided to put an end to the head of the Soviet state by blowing up the Mausoleum. But the terrorists, abandoned on the territory of the USSR, disappeared into oblivion, and their fate is unknown today.
There is also an attempt to assassinate Stalin by a Soviet citizen. On November 6, 1942, at 2.30 pm, a motorcade of government cars left the Kremlin. When the motorcade drew level with Execution Ground, shots rang out. The Chekists returned fire, and grenades were thrown at Execution Ground. The terrorist was wounded and surrendered. It turned out to be 33-year-old Savely Dmitriev, a corporal-anti-aircraft gunner.
Abraham Lincoln was let down by his love of theater
The sixteenth President of the United States, the leader of the Republican Party and the liberator of slaves, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865. It happened in the guest box of the Ford Theater in Washington. During the play "My American Cousin" John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box and with the words "Death to tyrants!" shot Lincoln in the back of the head with a pistol.
So tragically ended the life of one of the greatest presidents of the United States. The President died the next day, and Booth shot himself to avoid falling into the hands of the police. All members of the conspiracy were arrested and hanged. It is worth noting that in memory of the great politician, fans meet annually at the convention of the Lincoln Presenters Association in Ohio, where they gather "Doubles" of Abraham Lincoln.
Mahatma Gandhi, dying, forgave his murderer
Mahatma Gandhi, an adherent of the theory of non-violence, happily survived the first assassination attempt and died from the second. On January 30, 1948, Nathuram Godse, a member of the Hindu Mahasabha organization, during the traditional prayer in a crowd of pilgrims crept to Gandhi and fired three shots.
Two bullets went through the abdominal cavity, and the third stuck in the very heart of Gandhi, damaging a lung in the process. Already dying, Gandhi managed to show with a gesture that he forgives the murderer.
Lenin left the bandits with a bottle of milk in his hands
It is officially known about at least three attempts on the leader's life October revolution Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The most famous is the assassination attempt that took place on August 30, 1918 at the Michelson plant, when Fanny Kaplan fired three shots at the leader with a revolver. Doctors saved Lenin, but for a long time there was an opinion that the leader was poisoned.
On January 6, 1919, the most ridiculous assassination attempt took place. Koshelkov's gang quite by accident robbed the car in which Lenin was driving to Sokolniki to the Yolka organized at the Forestry School. According to the recollections of witnesses, one of the attackers took out a pistol with the words: "Wallet or life!". Vladimir Ilyich showed his certificate and said: "I am Ulyanov-Lenin." But the bandits repeated the same phrase: "Your wallet or your life!" Ilyich had no money, so he took off his coat, got out of the car and walked further with a bottle of milk for his wife in his hands.
Theodore Roosevelt was saved from the bullet by his speech
American presidents have been attacked by assassins with enviable consistency. So, on October 14, 1912, there was absolutely one of several attempts on the life of the 26th President of the United States - Theodore Roosevelt. The president, during his speech in Milwaukee, was shot by John Schrank with a pistol. The assassin shot the president in the chest, but the bullet, having pierced the glasses case, by a happy coincidence, got stuck in the president's 50-page speech.
The President always put the sheets of speech under his jacket so that he would not be forgotten anywhere or lost. For this quite common habit of Roosevelt, many of his acquaintances often condemned and made fun of the president. The President struck everyone down when, being badly wounded, he insisted on finishing his speech and only then went to the hospital.
Reagan was hit by a rebound
Ronald Reagan - 40th President of the United States and a politician from God - was assassinated on January 30, 1981. Today it is impossible to imagine how an armed, mentally unbalanced person went through 2 security rings and came close to the American president. John Hinckley succeeded. He called out to Ronald Reagan, who was leaving the hotel to get into the limousine, and managed to shoot him with a.22-caliber Colt 6 times almost point-blank.
True, one of the bullets ricocheted off the armored glass of the car and hit the president in the chest. Despite his impressive age and difficult surgery, Reagan quickly recovered and returned to his duties as president.
John F. Kennedy: death ending the curse
On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States and the first president of this country, who was born in the 20th century, was shot dead. It happened in the state of Texas in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald fired a 6.5mm Carcano M91 / 38 carbine twice and hit twice in the head. One bullet hit the back of the head, the other hit the president's throat. Kennedy died instantly. John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, and an eternal flame has been lit in his memory.
There is a legend about the assassinations of American presidents. The allegedly dying Shawnee Tekumseh chieftain has pronounced a curse that every US president who takes office in a year divisible by 20 will die before his term expires. The leader of the tribe cursed the US presidents for violating the agreement between the newcomers and the indigenous people by the "white" man. US presidents were cursed to the seventh generation. John F. Kennedy became the seventh president of this country to be assassinated.
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