The assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump follows a history of political violence targeting sitting or potential US presidents.
Since the country's founding, four presidents have been assassinated and several others targeted, as well as several candidates.
Here's a look at some near misses in American history.
Abraham Lincoln - 1865
Shot to death by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated.
He was in a theater with his wife Mary Todd Lincoln when he was shot. Lincoln died the next day from wounds to the back of his head.
Two years before his assassination, during the Civil War, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that granted freedom to slaves within the Confederacy.
Support for the rights of black people has been cited as a motive behind his murder.
Booth was shot and killed on April 26 after being found hiding in a barn near Bowling Green, Virginia.
Garfield was the second president to be assassinated who was shot by Charles Guiteau while walking in a train station in Washington on July 2, 1881.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, had tried to find the bullet lodged in Garfield's chest with a device he had designed especially for the president, but without success.
The president stayed in the White House for several weeks until he died in September, writes sky news, the Telegraph reports.
Guiteau was found guilty and executed in June 1882.
William McKinley - 1901
William McKinley was shot on September 6, 1901 after giving a speech in Buffalo, New York.
He was shot twice in the chest at close range.
While doctors waited for McKinley to recover, gangrene developed around his wounds and he died on September 14.
Leon Czolgosz pleaded guilty to the shooting and was sentenced to death in the electric chair in October of that year.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - 1933
The president-elect was not injured in the Miami shooting in February 1933.
The mayor of Chicago, Anton Cermak, was killed by the shooting, for whose murder Guiseppe Zangara was sentenced to death.
Harry S. Truman – 1950
Harry S. Truman was staying at Blair House, across the street from the White House, in November 1950 when two gunmen entered.
He was unharmed, but a policeman and one of the attackers were killed, while two others were wounded.
Oscar Callazo was arrested and sentenced to death for the shooting, but Truman commuted his sentence to life imprisonment in 1952.
Otherwise, he was released from prison in 1979 by then-President Jimmy Carter.
John F. Kennedy - 1963
Perhaps the most infamous assassination occurred on November 22, 1963 when John F. Kennedy was shot as he drove through Dealey Plaza in Dallas in the presidential motorcade.
Hours after the assassination, police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald after discovering a sniper's position in a nearby building, the Texas School Book Depository.
Two days later, Oswald was being taken by police to jail when Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot him dead.
Kennedy was succeeded by his vice president, Lyndon Johnson, who was sworn in aboard Air Force One, making him the only president to take the oath of office on board an airplane.
Gerald Ford escaped unscathed in two assassination attempts within weeks in 1975.
In the first attempt, Ford was on his way to a meeting in Sacramento when American criminal Lynette Fromme approached him with a pistol.
The gun did not fire and Fromme was sentenced to prison and released in 2009.
Just 17 days later, another woman, Sara Jane Moore, confronted Ford outside a San Francisco hotel, firing the gun once and then disappearing.
A bystander grabbed him by the arm as he attempted a second shot.
She was released from prison in 2007.
After giving a speech in Washington, Reagan was shot by John Hinckley Jr., who was in the crowd in March 1981.
Reagan recovered, but his press secretary James Brady was reportedly left partially paralyzed.
Hinckley was arrested and committed to a mental hospital after a jury found him not guilty by reason of mental illness. He was released in 2022.
George W. Bush - 2005
George W. Bush was at a rally in Tbilisi, Georgia when a hand grenade was thrown at him.
Fortunately, the grenade did not explode.
Vladimir Arutyunian was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. /Telegraph/
