Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts, Part 5: Barack Obama - a podcast by Scott Rank, PhD

With the election of America's first African-American president in 2008, many feared that the presidency of Barack Obama would bring out the most reactionary elements in society and end his life in assassination. Did Obama's eight years as president bring out more assassination attempts than other presidents or merely those of different ideological stripes? Find out in the final part in this series on presidential assassination attempts.

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