According to sources on wikipedia, Presidents should be quick to duck on Fridays.
Kennedy was shot on a Friday.
Lincoln was shot on a Friday
McKinley was also assassinated on a Friday.
Garfield was shot on Saturday.
Andrew Jackson was shot at on a Friday.
A plot to kill Nixon by crashing a plane into the White House (sound familiar?) was foiled on a Friday.
Ford avoided an assasination attempt on a Friday and then two weeks later on a Monday.
Hinckley tried to kill Reagan on a Monday.
September 12th 1994 a man crashed a plane into the White House lawn (sound familiar), Clinton was not present that Monday.
The article is fascinating as I don't think most people would believe the amount of attempts to kill the Presidents of the United States.
Especially interesting to me was that a grenade was thrown at GW Bush and it did not detonate and kill him because of a handkerchief that was wrapped around it. Sounds like it was a close one but I don't remember hearing about it at the time.
+Update :
21-year-old Idaho man is charged with attempting to try to assassinate President Obama...allegedly shooting at the White House on Friday, Nov. 11, 2011
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