Shortly after 6pm on Saturday, a would-be assassin took aim at former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Trump and two others were injured and one person was killed before the Secret Service shot and killed the alleged gunman, identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.
Crooks was a registered Republican but gave $15 to a progressive Political Action Committee in 2021. Law enforcement has yet to identify a motive or an ideology.
For the first time in decades, a presidential candidate has been the target of an assassination plot. How might Saturday's events affect an already divided America?
Author and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses what history can teach us about this moment.
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