Since the United States has elected its first president in 1789, four presidents have been assassinated: Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy. Each murder is different. There's a different motive, and a different conspiracy for all four different assassinations. The only thing these murders have in common is that all four presidents have been shot. Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865 by John Wilkes Both in Ford Theater as Lincoln watched …
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…convertible limousine in a motorcade through Dallas, Texas. Just hours later Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the new President of the United States. The Kennedy assassination is surrounded by conspiracy theories but it is likely that the truth will never be known. Two days after Kennedy's murder his suspected killer, Lee Harvey Oswald was killed by local nightclub owner Jack Ruby. Kennedy accomplished many things as president including handling the Cuban Missile Crisis.