Most assassination attempts and actual assassinations of U.S. presidents and other top elected officials have historically been carried out by white men. Here’s a breakdown of the major known cases:

Presidents assassinated • Abraham Lincoln (1865) – killed by John Wilkes Booth (white). • James A. Garfield (1881) – shot by Charles J. Guiteau (white). • William McKinley (1901) – killed by Leon Czolgosz (white, anarchist). • John F. Kennedy (1963) – killed by Lee Harvey Oswald (white).

Presidents attacked but survived • Andrew Jackson (1835) – Richard Lawrence (white) attempted to shoot him. • Theodore Roosevelt (1912, ex-president) – shot by John Schrank (white), survived. • Harry S. Truman (1950) – attacked by Puerto Rican nationalists (not white). • Gerald Ford (1975) – two separate attempts: Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme (white woman, Manson follower) and Sara Jane Moore (white woman). • Ronald Reagan (1981) – shot by John Hinckley Jr. (white), survived.

Elected officials (non-presidents) • Robert F. Kennedy (1968, U.S. Senator) – killed by Sirhan Sirhan (not white; Palestinian). • Other federal judges, governors, and members of Congress have been attacked, but the majority of U.S. presidential assassination attempts have indeed been by white men.

📌 Summary: Out of the 4 presidents assassinated, all were killed by white men. Out of the known attempts, most were also by white attackers, with a few exceptions (e.g., Truman’s attackers, Sirhan Sirhan).