Examples of Attacks in the United States in Which a Mentally Disordered Offender Injured a Public Figure After Giving a Pre-attack Signal
| Victim | Offender | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Abraham Lincoln, President | John Wilkes Booth | 1865 |
| James A. Garfield, President | Charles J. Guiteau | 1881 |
| William McKinley, President | Leon Czolgosz | 1901 |
| Theodore Roosevelt, former President and presidential candidate | John Schrank | 1912 |
| Huey Long, Governor of Louisiana | Carl Austin Weiss | 1935 |
| Eddie Waitkus, baseball player | Ruth Ann Steinhagen | 1949 |
| John F. Kennedy, President | Lee Harvey Oswald | 1963 |
| Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator and presidential candidate | Sirhan Sirhan | 1968 |
| William Lennon, Lennon sisters’ father | Chet W. H. Young | 1969 |
| Jim Hicklin, radio personality | Edward Taylor | 1973 |
| John Lennon, singer | Mark David Chapman | 1980 |
| Ronald Reagan, President | John W. Hinckley, Jr. | 1981 |
| Theresa Saldana, actress | Arthur Jackson | 1982 |
| Rebecca Schaeffer, actress | Robert John Bardo | 1989 |