The First Assassination Investigation

Before Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle, Francis Scott Key sat on hottest seat in Washington

Kimberly Cheatle, Secret Service director, in 2017. (Sarah Gross/U.S. Army)

The first attempted assassination of an American president happened nearly 200 years ago, 19th century gunfire with a 21st century resonance.

The investigation of the January 1835 attack on President Andrew Jackson foreshadows in many ways this week’s Capitol Hill testimony of Se…