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Chapter 1: Andrew Jackson

Brands, H. W. Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times. New York: Anchor, 2006.

Burnstein, Andrew. The Passions of Andrew Jackson. New York: Vintage, 2004.

Clarke, James W. American Assassins. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.

Freeman, Katie. “Letter threatening Jackson’s life determined to be written by father of man who killed Lincoln” Knoxnews.com, 2009. www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/jan/25/letter-threatening-jacksons-life-determined-writte/ (accessed December 14, 2012).

Mintz, S. and S. McNeil. “Political Assassination: The Violent Side of American Political Life.” Digitalhistory.uh.edu, 2003. www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/topic_display.cfm?tcid=98 (accessed December 14, 2012).

Remin, Robert V. The Life of Andrew Jackson. New York: Harper Perennial, 1999.

Spignesi, Stephen J. In the Crosshairs: Famous Assassinations & Attempts From Julius Caesar to John Lennon. Darby, PA: Diane Publishing Co., 2003.

Chapters 2 and 3: Abraham Lincoln

Axelrod, Alan. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Civil War, 3rd Edition. New York: ALPHA, 2011.

Clarke, Asia. John Wilkes Booth: A Sister’s Memoir. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999.

Clarke, James W. American Assassins. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.

Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Hartranft, John Frederick. The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators: Their Confinement and Execution, As Recorded in the Letterbook of John Frederick Hartranft. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2009.

Hatch, Frederick. Protecting President Lincoln: The Security Effort, the Thwarted Plots and the Disaster at Ford’s Theatre. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011.

Kauffman, Michael W. American Brutus. New York: Random House, 2005.

Kimmel, Stanley. The Mad Booths of Maryland. Mineola, NY: Dover, 1970.

Smith, Gene. American Gothic: The Story of America’s Legendary Theatrical Family—Junius, Edwin, and John Wilkes Booth. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Spignesi, Stephen J. In the Crosshairs: Famous Assassinations & Attempts From Julius Caesar to John Lennon. Darby, PA: Diane Publishing Co., 2003.

Steers Jr, Edward. Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Louisville: The University Press of Kentucky, 2005.

Swanson, James L. Manhunt. New York: William Morrow, 2007.

Swanson, James L. and Daniel Weinberg. Lincoln’s Assassins: Their Trial and Execution. New York: Harper Perennial, 2008.

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Chapter 4: James A. Garfield

Bliss, D. W. “The Story of President Garfield’s Illness,” Century Magazine, no. 1 (1881).

Clarke, James W. American Assassins. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.

Hayes, C. J., Annie J. Dunmire, and Edmund A. Bailey. A complete history of the life and trial of Charles Julius Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield. Philadelphia: Hubbard Bros., 1882.

Millard, Candice. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President. New York: Anchor, 2012.

Rosenberg, Charles E. The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and the Law in the Gilded Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Spignesi, Stephen J. In the Crosshairs: Famous Assassinations & Attempts From Julius Caesar to John Lennon. Darby, PA: Diane Publishing Co., 2003.

Chapter 5: William McKinley

Clarke, James W. American Assassins. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.

Leech, Margaret. In the Days of McKinley. Newtown, CT: American Political Biography Press, 1999.

Miller, Scott. The President and the Assassin. New York: Random House, 2011.

Peterson, Harold F. “Buffalo Builds the 1901 Pan-American Exposition.” Buffaloah.com, 2008. http://buffaloah.com/h/panam/peter.html (accessed January 2, 2013).

Peterson, Merrill D. Lincoln in American Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Spignesi, Stephen J. In the Crosshairs: Famous Assassinations & Attempts From Julius Caesar to John Lennon. Darby, PA: Diane Publishing Co., 2003.

Vowell, Sarah. Assassination Vacation. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Wilson, Antoine. The Assassination of William McKinley. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 2002.

Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States: 1492–Present. New York: Harper, 2003.

Chapter 6: Theodore Roosevelt

Clarke, James W. American Assassins. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.

Cochems, Henry Frederick, and Wheeler P. Bloodgood. The Attempted Assassination of Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt. Milwaukee: The Progressive Publishing Company, 1912.

Donovan, Robert J. The Assassins. New York: Popular Library, 1964.

Millard, Candice. The River of Doubt. New York: Broadway Books, 2005.

Morris, Edmund. Colonel Roosevelt. New York: Random House, 2011.

New York Times. “Schrank, Who Shot T. Roosevelt, Dies; Insane Man Had No Visitors in 31 Years in Wisconsin Asylums.” September 16, 1943.

Oehser, Paul H. “Roosevelt African Expedition Collects for Smithsonian Institute.” 1970. http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_193 (accessed January 5, 2013).

Rauchway, Eric. Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004.

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Spignesi, Stephen J. In the Crosshairs: Famous Assassinations & Attempts From Julius Caesar to John Lennon. Darby, PA: Diane Publishing Co., 2003.

Chapter 7: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Clarke. James W. American Assassins. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.

Denton, Sally. The Plots Against the President: FDR, A Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2012.

McCann, Joseph T. Terrorism on American Soil: A Concise History of Plots and Perpetrators from the Famous to the Forgotten. Boulder, CO: Sentient Publications, 2006.

Picci, Blaise. The Five Weeks of Giuseppe Zangara: The Man Who Tried to Kill FDR. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2003.

Spignesi, Stephen J. In the Crosshairs: Famous Assassinations & Attempts From Julius Caesar to John Lennon. Darby, PA: Diane Publishing Co., 2003.

Chapters 8 and 9: John F. Kennedy

Blaine, Gerald, Lisa McCubbin, and Clint Hill. The Kennedy Detail: JFK’s Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence. New York: Gallery Books, 2011.

Bugliosi, Vincent. Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008.

— Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007.

Clarke, James. W. American Assassins. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.

David, Steve B. Near Miss: The Attempted Assassination of JFK. Broomfi eld, CO: FeedBrewer, Inc., 2010.

The Evening Independent. “‘Can’t Say I’d Do It Again,’ ‘Human Bomb’ Declares.” December 18, 1960. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LkBQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KFcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4063,2642018&hl=en (accessed January 7, 2013).

Frontline. “Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?” November 20, 2003.

John, Frederick. “Fate Foreshadowed: JFK Had Brush with Death in ’60,” Deseret News. November 19, 1989. www.deseretnews.com/article/74816/FATE-FORESHADOWED–JFK-HAD-BRUSH-WITH-DEATHIN-60.html?pg=all (accessed January 7, 2013).

Kerr, Philip. “JFK: the assassin who failed.” NewStatesman, November 27, 2000. www.newstatesman.com/node/139086 (accessed January 7, 2013).

McCann, Joseph T. Terrorism on American Soil: A Concise History of Plots and Perpetrators from the Famous to the Forgotten. Boulder, CO: Sentient Publications, 2006.

Oliver, Willard, and Nancy Marion. Killing the President: Assassinations, Attempts, and Rumored Attempts on U.S. Commanders-in-Chief. Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2010.

Posner, Gerald. Case Closed. New York: Anchor, 2003.

Sosin, Milt. “‘Human Bomb’ Held; Was After Kennedy.” The Miami News, December 16, 1960. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19601216&id=xiRmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ReoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4821,138115 (accessed January 7, 2013).

Spignesi, Stephen Jn. In the Crosshairs: Famous Assassinations & Attempts From Julius Caesar to John Lennon. Darby, PA: Diane Publishing Co., 2003.

Time-Life Books. Assassination. New York: Time Life Education, 2004.

“Testimony of Mrs. John F. Kennedy.” The Warren Commission Hearings, Volume V. www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh5/html/WC_Vol5_0095b.htm (accessed January 7, 2013).

Chapter 10: Richard Nixon

Clarke, James W. American Assassins. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.

Duersten, Matthew C. “The Man in the Santa Claus Suit,” LA Weekly, September 12, 2001. www.laweekly.com/2001-09-20/news/the-man-in-the-santa-claus-suit/full/ (accessed January 18, 2013).

Federal Bureau of Investigation. “Samuel Byck Dossier.” www.slideshare.net/InvestigatingtheTerror/sam-byck-dossier (accessed January 18, 2013).

Linskey, Annie. “Policeman remembers his defining moment.” The Baltimore Sun, November 13, 2005. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2005-11-13/news/0511120472_1_troyer-hijacker-ferndale (accessedJanuary 18, 2013).

Woestendiek, John. “The resurrection of Samuel Byck. Why an almost forgotten would-be assassin has found an audience after 30 years.” The Baltimore Sun, February 6, 2005. www.10-digital.com/design/online/indigo/press/samuel_byck.html (accessed January 18, 2013).

Associated Press. “3 Slain in Baltimore Skyjack Shootout.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 23, 1974. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zstRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_GwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2067,2903113&dq=baltimore+skyjack&hl=en (accessed April 29, 2013).

Chapters 11 and 12: Gerald Ford

Archibold, Randal C. “One of Ford’s Would-Be Assassins Is Paroled.” New York Times, January 1, 2008. www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/us/01moore.html?_r=0 (accessed January 14, 2013).

Associated Press. “Sara Jane Moore fails in prison escape attempt.” Boca Raton News, February 6, 1979. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1291&-dat=19790206&id=thVUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=N40DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5073,1021484 (accessed January 14, 2013).

Biography.com. “Squeaky Fromme.” www.biography.com/people/squeaky-fromme-20902443 (accessed January 14, 2013).

Bravin, Jess. Squeaky: The Life and Times of Lynette Alice Fromme. New York: St. Martin’s Griffi n, 1998.

Brown, Angela K. “Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme, Manson Family Member Who Tried To Kill President Ford, Released From Prison.” The Huffi ngton Post, August 14, 2009. www.huffi ngtonpost.com/2009/08/14/lynettesqueaky-fromme-ma_0_n_259749.html (accessed January 14, 2013).

Bugliosi, Vincent and Curt Gentry. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001.

Clarke, James W. American Assassins. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.

Duke, Lynn. “Caught in Fate’s Trajectory, Along With Gerald Ford.” The Washington Post, December 31, 2006. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/30/AR2006123000160.html (accessed January 14, 2013).

Fusco, Jennifer and Rocco LaDuca. “Would-be Ford assassin ‘Squeaky’ Fromme moving to Marcy.” Utica Observer-

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Gray, Charles F., Jr. “A Tribute to Thomas Jamison Mac-Bride.” CourtHistory.org. http://courthistory.tripod.com/macbride.html (accessed January 14, 2013).

Knight Ridder/Tribune News. “‘Squeaky’ Fromme unrepentant, still devoted to Manson.” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, September 26, 2005.

Morrison, Pat. “Two gay heroes thwart assassinations—whata difference 35 years make.” Los Angeles Times, January 10, 2011. http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2011/01/two-gay-heroes-thwart-assassinations-what-a-difference-35-years-make.html (accessed January 14, 2013).

Shilts, Randy. The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk. New York: St. Martin’s Griffi n, 1988.

Spieler, Geri. Taking Aim at the President: The Remarkable Story of the Woman Who Shot at Gerald Ford. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Spignesi, Stephen J. In the Crosshairs: Famous Assassinations & Attempts From Julius Caesar to John Lennon. Darby, PA: Diane Publishing Co., 2003.

Vronsky, Peter. Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters. New York: Berkley Trade, 2007.

Chapter 13: Ronald Reagan

Caplan, Lincoln. The Insanity Defense and the Trial of John W. Hinckley Jr. New York: Laurel, 1987.

Clarke, James W. On Being Mad or Merely Angry. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.

CNN.com. “Court gives would-be assassin John Hinckley more freedom.” June 17, 2009. www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/17/john.hinckley/index.html (accessed January 21, 2012).

Davidson, Osha Gray. Under Fire: The NRA and the Battle for Gun Control. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1998.

Delahanty v. Hinckley, 564 A.2d 758 (D.C.App. 1989). www.titleii.com/bardwell/delahanty_v_hinckley.txt. (accessed January 21, 2012)

Linder, Doug. Famous American Trials: The John Hinckley Trial, 1982. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2008. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hinckley/hinckleytrial.html. (accessed January 21, 2012)

Silverleib, Alan. “The day that changed presidential security forever.” CNN.com, March 30, 2011. www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/03/30/hinckley.presidential.protection/index.html (accessed January 21, 2012).

Taylor, Stuart, Jr. “Hinckley Hails ‘Historical’ Shooting to Win Love.” New York Times, July 9, 1982. www.nytimes.com/1982/07/09/us/hinckley-hails-historical-shooting-to-win-love.html (accessed January 21, 2012).

Wilber, Del Quentin. Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2011.

Chapter 14: Bill Clinton

Gormley, Ken. The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr. New York: Crown, 2010.

Leonard, Tom. “Osama bin Laden came within minutes of killing Bill Clinton.” The Telegraph, December 22, 2009. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/philippines/6867331/Osama-bin-Laden-came-within-minutes-of-killing-Bill-Clinton.html (accessed January 17, 2012).

Sanger, David E. “Clinton Surveys Manila Bay: What, No Corncob Pipe?” New York Times, November 25, 1996. www.nytimes.com/1996/11/25/world/clinton-surveysmanila-bay-what-no-corncob-pipe.html?src=pm (accessed January 17, 2012).

Chapter 15: Barack Obama

Bonner, Jessie L. and Jessica Gresko. “Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez Thought He Was Jesus, Obama Was Antichrist.” The Huffington Post, November 18, 2011. www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/18/oscar-ortega-hernandez-jesus_n_1101222.html (accessed January 12, 2012).

Castillo, Mariano and Greg Botelho. “In video, White House shooting suspect calls himself ‘modern-day Jesus’.” CNN, November 18, 2011. www.cnn.com/2011/11/18/us/white-house-shooting-profi le/index.html (accessed January 12, 2012).

Duggan, Paul. “Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez charged with attempt to assassinate Obama.” The Washington Post. November 17, 2011. www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/crime-scene/post/oscar-ramiro-ortega-hernandez-charged-with-attempt-to-assassinate-obama/2011/11/17/gIQAZC9BVN_blog.html (accessed January 12, 2012).

FBI.gov. “Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez Indicted for Attempting to Assassinate the President of the United States.” January 17, 2012. www.fbi.gov/washingtondc/press-releases/2012/oscar-ramiro-ortega-hernandez-indicted-for-attempting-to-assassinate-the-president-of-the-united-states (accessed January 12, 2012).

Gresko, Jessica. “Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez pleads guilty to shooting White House.” The Huffington Post, September 18, 2013. www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/18/oscar-ramiro-ortega-hernandez-white-house-shooting_n_3949449.html (accessed December 2, 2013).

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Savage, Charlie. “In Gunshots, a Trail of Threats Is Reported.” New York Times, November 17, 2011. www.nytimes.com/2011/11/18/us/attempted-assassination-charge-in-shooting-at-white-house.html?pagewanted=all (accessed January 12, 2012).

Yardley, Willam. “White House Shooting Suspect’s Path to Extremism.” New York Times, November 20, 2011. www.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/us/oscar-ortega-whitehouse-shooting-suspect-struggled-with-mental-illness.html?ref=oscarramiroortegahernandez&_r=0 (accessed January 12, 2012).