sewart was ill at that time, he had been injured in a road accident and was at home.ul managed to get into his room and even inflict several blows with a dagger, but the wounds turned out to be non-lethal. george otseroth was responsible for the assassination attempt on vice president andrew johnson, but he immediately aroused suspicion among the staff of the hotel where johnson was staying and he was arrested. in american history, well, there have been numerous attempts or murders of current presidents of the united states, and even of a presidential candidate. well, probably one of the most resonant is, of course, the assassination of abraham lincoln, right away. after the civil war, that's what actually led to a pretty serious constitutional crisis in the united states, yes, because his position was immediately taken by his vice-president, such a northern democrat, so he stopped the policy of reconstruction of the southern states, this is what led to an intensification of the contradiction between the south and the north, even at one moment put america on the brink