Ronald Reagan's Assassination Attempt A Nation in Shock

The last attempt to assassinate a U.S. president or presidential candidate was in 1981, when Ronald Reagan was shot. March 30, 1981: Reagan exits a Washington, D.C., hotel when gunman John Hinckley Jr. fires. When President Ronald Reagan was shot on March 30, 1981, chaos ensued behind the scenes at the White House. With no real protocol in place for such a ... Archive video shows the moment a gunmen shot former White House Press Secretary James Brady in an attempt to assassinate then-President ... “A young gunman ambushed President Reagan at close range yesterday and fired six shots from a .22-caliber pistol — one of them piercing the ... In April 2021, our nation marked the 40th anniversary of the attempt to assassinate President Ronald Wilson Reagan. On March 30, 1981, President Reagan and his ... The man who attempted to assassinate former President Ronald Reagan was freed from a Washington, DC, mental hospital Saturday. In 1981, then President Ronald Reagan was shot outside a hotel in downtown Washington. CBS News' Robert Costa reflects on that historic shooting ... John Hinckley, who shot and wounded US president Ronald Reagan in 1981, has been freed from court oversight, officially concluding decades of supervision. John Hinckley, who wounded then U.S. President Ronald Reagan and three others in a 1981 assassination attempt, was released without ...