#Failed Assassination Attempts

[deadpresidents]

Everyone knows about Lincoln and Garfield and McKinley and Kennedy, the quartet of America Presidents who fell victim to assassination. Even the most casual observers of Presidential history can probably name the four Presidents who were murdered while in office, and many even know the names of the four assassins responsible for their deaths: Booth, Guiteau, Czolgosz, and Oswald.

There have also been quite a few (in)famous unsuccessful assassination attempts, where Presidents barely escaped with their lives, that many Americans are familiar with, including (but not limited to):

•Richard Lawrence's miraculously unlucky double misfire on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in 1835 which left Andrew Jackson unharmed but resulted in Lawrence -- who would be found not guilty by reason of insanity -- getting viciously pummeled by the cane-wielding President Jackson until Davy Crockett intervened to save the would-be assassin from the 67-year-old President. •The shooting of former President Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee as he sought another term in the White House during the 1912 Presidential election. Despite being shot in the chest, Roosevelt decided to go ahead and deliver his campaign speech before being taken to the hospital where doctors discovered that the bullet lodged inside of TR had first passed through a case for his eyeglasses and the thick pages of his speech in his jacket's pocket, lessening the damage from the gunshot. •The attempted assassination of President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami in February 1933, just seventeen days in before FDR's Inauguration, which wounded four people and killed Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak. •The ill-fated 1950 attempt by Puerto Rican nationalists to storm Blair House (the temporary Presidential residence during the renovation of the White House) and kill President Harry S. Truman as he was napping. Truman was not hurt, but a White House Police Officer and one of the two assassins were killed during the wild shootout. •President Gerald Ford's trouble with two California women who separately tried to kill him in Sacramento and then San Francisco just two weeks apart in September 1975. •The shocking shooting of President Ronald Reagan in broad daylight from just a few yards away as he exited the Washington Hilton following a speech in March 1981, which left four people wounded and very nearly killed the 70-year-old Reagan just two months into his Presidency.

But what is amazing is that, in this age of instant information and the constant regurgitation of media coverage via the 24-hour news cycle, very few Americans know that there is a man sitting in prison in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia for attempting to assassinate President George W. Bush. What even less Americans realize is how close Vladimir Arutyunian actually came to accomplishing his task.

On May 10, 2005, President Bush spoke to a large crowd at an outdoor rally in Tbilisi, Georgia. In one of the photos at the top of this post, Bush is seen speaking from the stage in Tbilisi. The other photo is of Arutyunian holding a plaid handkerchief close to his chest. Wrapped in that handkerchief was a live hand grenade.

As President Bush spoke, nearby sat his wife, Laura, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, and the Dutch-born First Lady of Georgia, Sandra Roelofs. They had no idea that, during the speech, Arutyunian tossed his handkerchief-wrapped grenade towards the stage. The grenade landed just 61 feet away from President Bush, well within range of causing serious injury, if not death.

Of course, the grenade did not explode. At first, it was thought to be a dud, but upon closer inspection it was discovered that the only reason the grenade didn't explode was because Arutyunian's handkerchief -- used to conceal the explosive as he stood in the crowd -- was wrapped too tightly around the grenade, preventing the firing pin from deploying. A Georgian security official noticed the grenade, grabbed it quickly and disposed of it as Arutyunian disappeared into the massive crowd and President Bush continued speaking.

After Bush's speech was over and once it was recognized that the President had only narrowly escaped a legitimate attempted assassination, Georgian police worked closely with the United States Secret Service, the FBI, and the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the assassination attempt and find the would-be assassin who seemingly melted into Tbilisi after his brazen, albeit unsuccessful attempt on Bush's life. Using DNA evidence and tips from informants, the Georgian police ultimately tracked down Arutyunian two months later. When they went to arrest Arutyunian, a gunfight broke out and Arutyunian killed Zurab Kvlividze, a top counterterrorism official with Georgia's Interior Ministry. Arutyunian was wounded before finally being captured with the assistance of Georgian Special Forces.

The Georgians tried Arutyunian on the murder of the police officer, as well as the attempted assassinations of President Bush and President Saakshvili. Arutyunian was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. A federal grand jury in the United States also indicted Arutyunian on the federal charge of the attempted assassination of the President of the United States, which is a felony. The U.S., however, has not attempted nor has any potential plans to extradite the failed assassin from Georgia, and Arutyunian will almost certainly spend the rest of his life in a Georgian prison.

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[ethosiab]

i love the sad wet puppy dog vibes that ren is giving off this season

#from iskall's first episode to the constant failed attempts at assassinating mumbo he really is just struggling #and i love that for him #rendog #nics rambles #hermitcraft s10

[danwhobrowses]

Okay sure just split the group again I'm sure nothing could go wrong this time dividing them into sub-groups to sting at high levelled and relatively unknown areas with high risk and high threat of boss level enemies in the vicinity and then go on another break to make us stew on that, it's fine IT'S FINE!

#critical role #bell's hells #cr spoilers #c3 e89 #critical role spoilers #the volition #ruby vanguard #the imperium #ruidus #unseelie court #universe really gotta hit me with Frieren season finale and CR going on a break AND One Piece going on a break! #it's like you want me to have nothing to do on Friday #honestly how many times in all 3 campaigns has splitting up worked? Not a lot Matt it's just evil PCs have died #my Callowmoore heart of course is relieved that Ashton and Fearne are in the same group this time - they're not gonna lose her again #maybe we can sneak in some combo moves for Bearne and Bashton - play a bit of holies #but still it's difficult to gauge how to deal with Athion plus maybe a dragon indoors plus Ira's willingness to leave people behind #Otohan and Ludinus can be lurking anywhere too #we still have no idea where Ryn is being kept either #the Liliana assassination attempt is doomed to fail and as much as it's a terrible choice I think Imogen needs to let her go #she talks about Ludinus like an abusive lover but acts blind to the cries of the people she says she's protecting #like woman go home! If they need you then removing yourself from the board stops them that's why there's a target on your back #but we all believe in Gaz supremacy at least #and more moon lore always gotta have the moon lore #tag reader's bonus: turtles live in every continent except antarctica #idk usually I have this many tags in ship posts so I drop a headcanon but this is more just panic so you get a nice turtle fact

[teecupangel]

what if Desmond becomes some sort of bodyguard for Claudia and her girls? Like, they work in a 'whore house' so it'd be pretty obvious that some men would act aggressively against them, so Desmond would take out his inner bouncer (I head cannon that he worked as a part time bartender part time bouncer at his old bar) and haul the men outside and threaten them and stuff, sometimes going to beat them up. And Claudia would keep him around because 1) he's a great investment and 2) he looks so much like Ezio she becomes suspicious that they may be father and son. Which leads to Ezio having a little freak out when Claudia finally manages to get the two to interact. And Ezio is silently panicking because 'fuck, he looks like me. I think he's my son' and Desmond would be freaking out because it's *Ezio*. Who keeps staring like Desmond had grown two heads. And Claudia is just looking at the two idiots off to the side wondering if she should worry about one of them trying to jump out the window.

Desmond has a better chance of jumping out of the window in this scenario since Ezio would be too busy processing the possibility that he has a son that he didn’t even know about.

Considering this would be set during Brotherhood, Ezio would be in his forties and Desmond would look like he’s in his twenties in Ezio’s eyes so he would probably think that he’s a child of one of his nightly activities in Firenze during his youth.

Also, Desmond is pretty enough that some customers would check him out and ask if he’s available. Which will be funny because, according to AC Wiki:

the Rosa in Fiore played host to many patrons visiting it each day, including important Roman cardinals, senators and Papal Guards, proving as a invaluable information asset to the Assassin Order

This meant that some of the people interested in Desmond are actually members of the Vatican, lollol.

And, because Rosa in Fiore has a ‘colorful’ clientele, it would probably make more sense if Desmond’s job as a bouncer is less about keeping rowdy clients out and more about making sure their clients are safe while they’re in the brothel.

And Claudia gave Desmond the job to see how he does. Desmond doesn’t realize that Claudia is checking his strength and skill. She does think he looks too much like Ezio to be a coincidence and his penchant for not wanting to talk about his parents or making up ludicrous lies that change each time another person asks him only makes Claudia believe that Desmond was adopted by ‘bad people’ and he has no idea who his real father is.

He’s pretty much just annoyed with all these pathetic assassination attempts and… maybe, just maybe, he hints at a better time for these sellswords to try their luck for the clients that no one in Rosa in Fiore would miss.

Desmond does sometimes get to rough up some of the clients but only the ones getting too handsy and the girls make sure to only call Desmond once the troublemakers are in very compromising positions so they would be too afraid to retaliate when Desmond does give them the ‘talk’.

Even if they talked about Desmond threatening them, other clients would just scoff at that because most of them know Desmond as the gardener. XD

#desmond’s code for another failed assassination attempt is #“i just took out the trash” #desmond as rosa in fiore’s bouncer #assassin's creed #desmond miles #claudia auditore #ezio auditore #ask and answer

[easyaesthetics]

Some extremely stupid 11/20 emoji redraws

+ bonus Cognitive Joker

#joker’s hair took sooooooooo fkn long to draw #I srsly commend those of u who draw him on a regular basis #also this is a little delusional since joker in canon isn’t giggling & charmed by Akechi’s failed assassination attempt #HOWEVER. uh imagine this as NG+ Joker. he already knows Akechi’s not gonna succeed so he’s enjoying himself a bit lol #persona #persona 5 #p5 #persona 5 royal #p5r #akeshu #shuake #akechi goro #Akira Kurusu #ren amamiya #persona 5 spoilers #cw blood #only a little bit but ykno #mine #the Akechi one wld make a funny sticker lol maybe I shld print it out

[floydsteeth]

Sometimes I wanna post about the gurps campaign I'm in but I don't feel like writing that much just post the art I make each session without context but I feel bad doing that cause it's funnier with context

#Tell (the character I play) is such a silly girl #So blood thirsty <3 #Sure she just failed an assassination attempt #But she killed 3 servants and 6 guards before escaping :P #Gurps #ttrpg

[mackirate]

Gear

#codextober #assassin's creed fanart #last minute change of plans cos i had two failed attempts at making cardboard throwing knives earlier lmao #throwing knives #krita #assassin's creed

[kismetmoon]

How the Senior Circle look like?

i’m honestly not too sure yet, i’ve given his personality a thought but not really his appearance. he might have something to contrast Chief Jr’s moon markings but i feel like he needs a grand ominous crown most importantly, as well as sharper overall features (like his eye / pupil, limbs and tail and stuff). he’s not a nice fella. here’s some concepts at the moment, i like the first one but i’m not 100% set on it yet.

[ID: two separate images of digital black outline concept drawings of an original, stylised Flatland character named Chief Sr on a white background.

Chief Sr is a circle character with black stick limbs, a black tail with a leaf-shaped tip, a scar to the top left of his eye and a hooded human-like eye in his centre.

In the first image, there are three drawings of Chief Sr. In the one of the left, he is holding his hands together and looking off to the top right. He is wearing a crown made from rhombuses shaped like a laurel wreath. He also has bandage-like wrappings covering his feet. In the one in the middle, he is standing with his arms by his side. He is looking upwards and has sun-like protrusions on his edge. In the one on the right, he is holding his hands out to his sides and looking straight up. He has a similar crown to the first crown shown. There is black writing at the bottom left that says “never looks directly at other people”, on the top that says “sun?”, and on the right that says “uneasy ‘human’ gaze”.

In the second image, it is a close-up of Chief Sr with a brick-like border around his edge. He is looking to the right. There is a red circle around the scar above his eye connected to a red line labelled “scar” in red writing.

End ID.]

#flatland #oc #asks #Chief Sr. #i wanted to make him look as unnerving as possible #because he acts exactly how he looks #his scar above his eye is from a failed assassination attempt #by liz #go girl go

[vampalpatine-archive]

nacho

#im obsessed with how all 3 of his assassination attempts failed #better call saul #nacho varga #breaking bad #own post

[alienwlw]

fun & sexy ideas to do with the new hubby on your wedding night ✧∘* ✧･ﾟ

#barfing up blood after a failed assassination attempt on your husband is something that can actually be so personal #till the end of the moon #pp

[feyndothur]

thinking ab hytham's whole injury situation again. i would be so embarassed. like better luck next time i love u soso much but me personally i wouldnt let that slide

they threw my babygirl like a wet paper towel to the wall in a highschool locker room im so. and he was laying there twitching n rolling around like they got him in a glue trap omg i cant do it.

#hytham #ac valhalla #embarassing me in front of the crew #the ick u get when he fails his assassination attempt and breaks his ribs and possibly punctures his lungs

[comradeboyhalo]

No idea how the debates went (I don't check them in fear of what they'll say against q!bbh) though I'll support q!bbh no matter what

only survived through checking a few bbh twt accs and then liveblogs through my dashboard. im NOT abt to go into the tag on tumblr and twitter and see everyone slandering him no matter how justified it may be. idk what he did but it was nothing wrong!!

#i support qbads rights and his wrongs #however he doesnt have any wrongs #ask #did watch the failed assassination attempt tho #10/10

[tackmins]

season 1 of the 100 is so funny. the government deciding to fed ex 100 children to radiation hell because they’re out of ideas. no one respects clarke (this does not change much). jasper calls monty’s future wife low-hanging fruit. the blakes act like sitcom siblings because they’ve only ever gotten to see portrayals of siblings in whatever dvds or vhs tapes were available in space. bellamy is haunted by his worst crime, which is *checks notes* not even successfully killing the guy who killed his mother. he is later much more chill about massacres that are entirely his fault. finn’s entire existence as maybe the most useless member of the gang. the only thing going for him is his hair and the fact that he’s somewhat levelheaded and somehow three people are in love with him. we see a total of three animals affected by radiation, two being in the first episode, and then this never happens again (except for pauna but i still think that was a fever dream). ?????

#i’m not rewatching i just remembered bellamy having a breakdown about his failed assassination attempt #buddy you don’t even know what’s coming to you #the 100

[original-punks]

fireworks in the middle of the day???? 🤦🏼‍♀️ who tf can see anything while the sun's up??? 💀

#guy fawkes day sucks sm #idiots stock up on fireworks #im gonna be hearing this shit for the next couple of months ughh #i feel sorry for all the animals 😔 the stress of hearing fireworks always frightens my cats #when my dog was alive he would go nuts omfg #i get that theyre pretty but why the fuck they gotta be loud??????? “guN pOWDer gO bOooOom SoOOo iT caNtT bE sILEnt” #so this started from them trying to blow up parliament and a failed assassination attempt against an oppressive state #i wouldnt want to fuck with oppressed Catholics lmao #of course they resort to trying to blow you up #idk why its celebrated in NZ since this happened in the UK???? no clue why we'd give a fuck about religion #now we're still oppressed with the illusion of freewill #ignore my tangent #lmfao

[fstbmp-a]

@royalreef sent: Happy birthday, Scourge. Of course, her new friend just had to come by, to more formally celebrate with her. Or, it looks to be Miranda. There's the shape of her, the pink scales, the fine clothing, but she's not stepping out of the shadows. Merely looking there, in the corner of Scourge's eyes, a persistent figure that vanishes the second she tries to get a better look. Sitting there, walking here, watching Scourge elsewhere, and yet not. Maybe something else just held the same shade of pink as her scales. Maybe something shiny flickered for a moment to provide a glimpse of her blue eyes. Maybe a dappled shadow was revealed to be just that, with no long form waiting beneath, solid and low. And maybe this is why you don't just let anyone rope you into some magic without knowing exactly what it is they're doing.

Gaia below, Scourge hated today. If it had been up to her, her birthday would've never been public knowledge, but it's no surprise that it had been. Can't really ask a baby if they want their birthday shared to the world or not-- doubtful dear old dad would've given a shit either way, frankly.

Still, after the King's rather public usurping, celebrating the birthday went out of style, even in the circles that actually liked Scourge- or the benefits of being on her good side, that is. She just hated the damn day, for obvious reasons and less so. One of which being the pranksters that think it'd be funny to assassinate someone on their birthday.

..Yeah, that'd be pretty damn funny, she had to confess. Had Scourge thought of it, might've waited for her own dad's birthday before doing the deed. Nevertheless, it made her both melancholy for the lesser clear reasons and on edge for the obvious.

Maybe that's why Scourge is spotting things in the corner of her vision that wasn't actually there. Seeing something that wasn't and that the rare guard around didn't so much as bat an eye at. Not like the would-be assassin frantically trying to chip away at crystal and metallic quills to get at her.

No, that was amusing- outright fucking hilarious, in fact. Whatever the hell this was.. wasn't that. No, it's getting under her skin. Always spotting a shape in the shadow that makes crystal stir beneath floor before realizing nothing is there now-- maybe wasn't even there to begin with.

"Fuckin' hate magic.." She grumbles, going back to doing her best to just ignore it. Have to figure out a way to solve whatever issue this was later.

#It Is Hopelessness ;; Scourge #royalreef #scourge can't even enjoy failed assassination attempts anymore miranda... #spoiling the one good thing her birthday brings her.. tragic... :pensive:

[sleepymushrxxm]

Nobody's gonna know, they said.

I knew.

#gummy worms #Failed assassination attempt #this gives me Minne of the Skye vibes