House of Representatives 5 Congressman injuredīomb explodes in seat at Radio City Music Hall during a movie showing Puerto Rican nationalists fire from gallery of U.S. NAACP state director Harry Moore and his wife killed in bombing of their house In assassination attempt on President Harry Truman, two Puerto Rican nationalists try to shoot their way into Blair House 2 killed, including 1 terrorist Shooting attack in residential neighborhood Supona dropped homemade bomb from airplane over United Nations building no damage caused Shooting by guard at German prisoners in POW camp Peace advocate drowned trying to bomb Japanese steamerīomb explodes at British Pavilion at the World's Fair, killing 2 police officers and injuring 2 Police officer killed in shooting attack by Puerto Rican nationalists Police officer shot by Puerto Rican nationalists Plane hijacked from Brooklyn and flown across Atlantic, crashing in Irish Free State 1 injured Senator Huey Long shot by Carl Weiss who was shot and killed by bodyguards Long died 10 Sep Silver nitrate poison mailed to 9 New York City officialsĪttempted assassination of President-elect Franklin Roosevelt by anarchist Joseph Zangara Chicago mayor Anton Cermak shot instead, dying 6 March Shooting by striking workers at labor protestĮxplosion of bomb placed in school, followed by suicide bombing Morgan in failed hostage takingīomb in suitcase explodes at Preparedness Day paradeģ6 mail bombs sent to prominent individuals by anarchist terrorists one exploded at the home of former Senator Thomas Hardwick, severely injuring his housekeeper and injuring his wife another failed to explode, 16 were intercepted by the Postal Service with insufficient postage and 12 were otherwise intercepted other targets included Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Senators William King, Lee Overman, and Reed Smoot, and Representatives John Burnett and Albert JohnsonĪnarchist bombings kill a night watchman and a terrorist additional bombings occurred in Washington, DC, Philadelphia, PA, Paterson, NJ, Cleveland, OH, and two in Pittsburgh, PAĪnarchist bombing at the home of a state representative injured one child a second bombing at the house of a judge caused no injuriesīomb in horse-drawn wagon exploded near Morgan bank in lower Manhattan Representative John Pinckney among four killed at a Prohibition rally during exchange of gunfire initiated by an anti-Prohibition attorneyįrank Steunenberg, former Idaho governor, killed by bombīombing by labor activists at The Los Angeles Times building caused partial collapse of the building two bombs at other locations were defusedįormer President Theodore Roosevelt shot and injured in attempted assassination outside hotel en route to speech President William McKinley shot by Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo, NY, died 14 Sep Capitol by Charles Kincaid Taulbee died 11 March Kentucky Representative William Taulbee shot outside U.S. Guiteau in Washington, DC, died 19 Sepīomb thrown during labor rally at Haymarket Square kills 7 policemen, many injured police fire into crowd, killing 4 8 anarchists accused President James Garfield shot by Charles J. Representative James Hinds fatally shot by Ku Klux Klan member George Clark Seward injured separately by accomplice Lewis Powell Lincoln died 15 April President Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth in Washington DC secretary of state William H. Terrorist and criminal attacks targeting childrenĪttempted assassination of President Andrew Jackson at Capitol failed when guns misfired.Type codes indicate category of attacks/incidents and (if clear) political nature of organization/individual behind the attack:įor related listings more thoroughly vetted, see these pages: Note: table includes terrorist events causing fatalities, incidents involving unconventional weapons, politically-motivated murders, and other incidents of political or methodological significance. Terrorist attacks and related incidents in the United States
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