Ronald Reagan's Assassination Attempt A Turning Point in History

Author Del Quentin Wilber does a splendid job of recreating the events of John Hinckley's near assassination of President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade ... Forty years ago, on March 30, 1981, John Hinckley, Jr. fired shots at President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton, including one that ... John W. Hinckley Jr. tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981 in Washington, D.C.. The attempted assassination of Reagan – On March 30, 1981, six shots were fired at President Ronald Reagan outside the Hilton Hotel in ... On March 30, 1981, John W. Hinckley, Jr., shot President Ronald Reagan and several others in a failed assassination attempt. The FBI conducted an extensive ... In 1981, President Ronald Reagan became the first incumbent president of the United States to survive being struck by a would-be assassin's bullet. The assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan happened on Monday, March 30, 1981, 69 days after becoming President. Ronald Reagan was leaving after a speaking ... John Hinckley Jr. fired six shots at President Ronald Reagan and his staff in March 1981. It was the last attack on a current or former U.S. ... In 1981, then President Ronald Reagan was shot outside a hotel in downtown Washington. CBS News' Robert Costa reflects on that historic shooting ...