 From Lafayette Square, Jimmy Alexander, WTOP News. Saturday's assassination attempt is now part of a long history of attacks on presidents and presidential candidates. WTOP's Luke Lukert has more. One of the most famous assassinations is that of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 in Dallas, Texas. The initial report from KBOX Radio. We can't see who has been hit, if anybody's been hit, but apparently something is wrong here. Something is terribly wrong.