QUESTIONS:
1. November 22 marked the 40th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Prior to JFK’s assassination, when was the last time a U.S. President was assassinated?
2. Prior to the Kennedy assassination, when was the last previous assassination attempt on the life of a President?
3. Before John Kennedy, who was the last President to have died in office?
4. John Kennedy was the first U.S. Navy veteran to have served as President in the 20th Century. How many Navy veterans have since served as President?
5. Kennedy won the Democratic nomination for President at the 1960 national convention on the first ballot. Who was his leading rival for the nomination?
ANSWERS:
1. 1901, when President William McKinley was fatally shot by Leon Czolgoz.
2. 1950, when three Puerto Rican nationalists unsuccessfully tried to shoot their way into Blair House to kill President Harry Truman.
3. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945
4. Four: Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush
5. Lyndon Johnson
Long-time HUMAN EVENTS subscriber Howard Miller noticed an error in question five of last week’s "How’s Your Political I.Q.?" In the answer to: "Excluding Mayor Street, how many former mayors of Philadelphia are living?," we listed Richardson Dilworth (mayor 1956-1962) as one of four former Democratic mayors of Philadelphia still living. Dilworth died of a brain tumor on Jan. 23, 1974. Our apologies for the error.
