MANCHESTER, N.H. —
Lou Jacobson, with WMUR's partners at PolitiFact , reports on all the recent significant acts of political violence in the U.S.
PolitiFact identified several recent acts of political violence, including:
Killing of Charlie Kirk
Killings of Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark
Fire at the governor's mansion in Pennsylvania
Shooting of an ICE agent in Texas
Fire set at GOP headquarters in New Mexico
Shooting at CDC headquarters
2024 assassination attempts of President Trump
In an interview with WMUR in the video player above, Jacobson analyzes how this spate of violence compares with a series of incidents in the 1960s and 1970s.
Our Get the Facts Data Team built out the following timeline of political violence incidents :