Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ƙoƙarin kisan kai da makirci a kan shugaban Amurka sun kasance da yawa, tun daga farkon karni na 19 zuwa 2010s. An kashe shugabanni huɗu masu aiki: Ibrahim Lincoln (1865, ta John Wilkes Booth), James A. Garfield (1881, ta Charles J. Guiteau), William McKinley (1901
, na Leon Czolgosz), da kuma John F. Kennedy (1963, na Lee Harvey Oswald). Bugu da ƙari, shugabanni biyu sun ji rauni a ƙoƙarin kisan kai: Theodore Roosevelt (1912 [tsohon shugaban a lokacin], na John Flammang Schrank) da Ronald Reagan (1981, na John Hinckley Jr.). A duk wadannan lokuta, makamin da aka yi amfani da shi wajen kai harin bindiga ne.