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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
