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Trump is latest in long line of US politicians targeted by assassins
Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln became the first president to be assassinated when actor John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln while he watched a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. Lincoln died just days after Confederate General …