High-profile US shootings involving politicians, public figures over the past 75 years

The state hasn't seen an assassination effort connected a president oregon a statesmanlike campaigner since 1981. That's erstwhile President Ronald Reagan was changeable successful Washington D.C.

Tim McCarthy, the Secret Service cause who took a slug for Reagan, spoke with ABC7 Saturday night.

The evident assassination effort connected erstwhile President Donald Trump hits adjacent to location for McCarthy.

"This is an attempted assassination of the erstwhile president, truthful this is simply a very, precise superior matter," McCarthy said.

The erstwhile Orland Park, Illinois, constabulary main spent 8 years assigned to the Presidential Protective Division successful Washington, D.C. In 1981, helium was changeable successful the enactment of work portion protecting President Ronald Reagan during an assassination attempt.

"It gets beauteous pugnacious retired determination successful the run trail, but this cannot hap successful our country," McCarthy said.

Here is simply a timeline of the United States' astir high-profile shootings involving governmental and nationalist figures implicit the past 75 years.

• 1950: President Harry Truman was wrong the Blair House successful Washington, D.C. erstwhile Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola tried to assassinate him. Truman was not injured, but a instrumentality enforcement serviceman was killed.
• 1963: President John F. Kennedy was changeable and killed successful Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for execution earlier being changeable and killed conscionable 2 days later.
• 1968: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed astatine a motel successful Memphis by James Earl Ray.
• 1968: Robert F. Kennedy was killed by Sirhan Sirhan successful Los Angeles during his statesmanlike campaign.
• 1972: George Wallace was changeable successful Maryland portion moving for president. Arthur Bremer was aboriginal convicted of attempted murder.
• 1975: President Gerald Ford survived 2 attempted assassinations, some of which took spot successful California.
• 1978: San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were killed astatine City Hall by Dan White, a erstwhile San Francisco supervisor.
• 1980: Russell Lloyd, Sr., the politician of Evansville, Indiana, was changeable and killed by Julie Van Orden.
• 1981: President Ronald Reagan survived a shooting by John Hinckley, Jr. extracurricular a Washington, D.C. hotel.
• 1998: Two constabulary officers were changeable and killed erstwhile Russell E. Weston Jr. opened occurrence connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, D.C.
• 2003: New York City Councilman James Davis was changeable and killed by Othniel Askew astatine City Hall successful Lower Manhattan.
• 2008: Several municipal officials, including 2 instrumentality enforcement officers, were killed erstwhile Charles Lee Thornton opened occurrence astatine a section authorities gathering successful Kirkwood, Missouri.
• 2011: A wide shooting astatine an Arizona lawsuit hosted by Rep. Gabby Giffords killed six people. Giffords survived and Jared Loughner was arrested.
• 2017: Rep. Steve Scalise survived a shooting by James Hodgkinson astatine a legislature shot lawsuit successful Virginia. Hodgkinson was changeable by instrumentality enforcement astatine the country and died.
• 2022: A gunman opened occurrence astatine the run office of Louisville mayoral campaigner Craig Greenberg. No 1 was killed. Quintez Brown was arrested and is awaiting proceedings successful Kentucky.