The first presidential assassination attempt took place in January 1835, when Lawrence—an unemployed house painter—hid behind a pillar near the entrance of the Capitol and fired at Jackson.

Bystanders—among them Davy Crockett, then a Tennessee congressman—subdued the would-be assassin, then rushed Jackson into a carriage and brought him back to the White House. Speculation on ...

One hundred and seventy-nine years ago today, President Andrew Jackson had a close call ... Initiating what would become the first assassination attempt in American history, Lawrence tried ...

Here are 13 presidents who escaped attempts on their lives. President Andrew Jackson survived an assassination attempt in 1835 when the shooter's gun misfired. On a misty January day in 1835 ...

Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Andrew Jackson, America's 6th president, was the first target of an attempted assassination. In 1835, Richard Lawrence attempted to shoot Jackson in ...

In the pre-Civil War era, President Andrew Jackson was shot at while attending ... Roosevelt was president-elect when a would-be assassin fired at him in Miami in 1933. The shooter, Guiseppe ...

The first attempted presidential assassination, according to the ... behind a pillar in the U.S. Capitol to ambush President Andrew Jackson. The Washington Post built a 3D model of the site ...