Inside The Assassination Attempts Against Barack Obama Alex Wong/Getty Images
By Allen McDuffee/Jan. 19, 2021 8:54 am EDT
By some accounts, as the first African American to win the White House, President Barack Obama may have received more death threats and been the target of more assassination plots than anybody else to sit in the Oval Office. The threats started rolling in well before he won the 2008 election. In fact, they began almost immediately in 2007 after he announced his intention to run for the highest office in the nation while he was still the junior senator from Illinois, making it the earliest time Secret Service protection had been assigned to a candidate before being nominated, according to