Assassinations and assassination attempts involving U.S. presidents and presidential candidates

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Media coverage of an assassination attempt on Theodore Roosevelt

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Media coverage of an assassination attempt on Theodore Roosevelt

Assassination of James A. Garfield

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Travel back to the night of Abraham Lincoln's assassination days after the end of the Civil War

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