I need help. How many Presidents have been assinated?

[dawgman]

Kind of in a bar discussion and want to know. Can anyone help me out?

[coloradodem2005]

1. Four.

Abraham Lincoln in 1865.

James A. Garfield in 1881.

William McKinley in 1901

John F. Kennedy in 1963

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. umm

I believe that Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy...I think thats all but I could be wrong. More have died in office but thats not your question, right?

[coloradodem2005]

3. It is just those four that have been assassinated.

[TroubleMan]

4. 7 presidents have been "ASSINATED"

Nixon, Reagan, Taft, Hoover, Grant, and both Bushes. They all made humongous asses of themselves.

He didn't say "assasinated." He said "assinated."

[phaseolus]

5. If you include attempts --

http://www.usatrivia.com/pasnatt.html

[TroubleMan]

6. Hell, nearly every one has

made attempts. They all make an ass out of themselves one time or another.

[joeybee12]

7. Technically, an assasination is an attempt, whether it is successful or

not. Lincoln was assasinated and died. Reagan was assasinated and lived.

[kcwayne]

8. According to the dictionary at dictionary.com

Assasination is murder for a political reason. I think murders are 100% fatal, and if you don't kill the person, it is an attack.

[joeybee12]

11. Dictionary.com is wrong. The word has been so mis-used over the years

that the general belief is that an assisnation attempt and assasination are different things. They aren't. Shame on dictionary.com

[kcwayne]

14. Well, every dictionary I check has the same definition

so where are you deriving your use or origin of the word?

Definition and Use of Assassin

[TroubleMan]

9. He said "ASSINATIION" - not assasination

Maybe I'm making attempt right now. Did it work?

[ConcernedCanuk]

10. hmm, . . begs the question - how many Canadian leaders have been

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assassinated

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[Parrcrow]

13. two

D'Arcy McGee (one of the fathers of confederation) was assassinated by an Irish Nationalist in 1870 I believe.

Pierre LaPorte Quebec's Minister of Labour during the FLQ crisis in 1970.

[TroubleMan]

12. So............

So according to Dictionary.com I'm only making an ASSinating attempt, but according to Webster's I'm actually ASSinating right now?