Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945)

Roosevelt served as the 32nd president of the United States
from 1933 until his death.

Last photograph of Roosevelt, taken April 11, 1945, the day before his death.

In the afternoon of April 12, 1945, in Warm Springs, Georgia,
while sitting for a portrait (below) Roosevelt said "I have a
terrific headache.” He then slumped forward in his chair,
unconscious, and was carried into his bedroom.

The president’s attending cardiologist, Dr. Howard Bruenn,
diagnosed the medical emergency as a massive intracerebral hemorrhage.

At 3:35 p.m. that day, Roosevelt died at the age of 63.      

  
  
 

The president died while poising for this portrait. Years
later the artist made a second, complete version from
photo’s and memory, the only difference, besides being complete, is the color of FDR’s necktie.

TIM MAGUIRE

The Saturn V SA-508 rocket carrying the Apollo 13
mission really did blast off at 14:13 (military time
for 2:13 p.m., ET) from the Kennedy Space Center
in Florida—and in Houston (CT),

MIKE GRACIA

Woodrow Wilson before Congress in 1917.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson
(December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924)

On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot in the
chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by a drifter named
John Hinckley Jr.

The president had just finished addressing a labor meeting
at the Washington Hilton Hotel and was walking with his
entourage to his limousine when Hinckley, standing among
a group of reporters, fired six shots at the president, hitting
Reagan and three of his attendants. White House Press
Secretary James Brady was shot in the head and critically
wounded, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy was
shot in the side, and District of Columbia policeman 
Thomas Delahanty was shot in the neck.

After firing the shots, Hinckley was overpowered and pinned
against a wall, and President Reagan, apparently unaware
that he’d been shot, was shoved into his limousine by a
Secret Service agent and rushed to the hospital.

The president was shot in the left lung, and the .22 caliber
bullet just missed his heart.

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
(October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969)

Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States and
one of the most highly regarded American generals of World War
II, died in Washington, D.C. of congestive heart failure at Walter
Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., at age 78.