stackyFACTSWhen an unemployed house painter named Richard Lawrence attempted to shoot the President in 1835, both of his heavily loaded pistols miraculously misfired.
When an unemployed house painter named Richard Lawrence attempted to shoot the President in 1835, both of his heavily loaded pistols miraculously misfired. Instead of running or waiting for security, a furious 67-year-old Andrew Jackson fiercely charged his attacker and began violently beating the man with his walking cane. Bystanders, including a bewildered Davy Crockett, physically had to pull the enraged President off the assassin.
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