The Day the President Was Shot Ronald Reagan's Assassination Attempt

with President Ronald Reagan ... More than 40 years after the attempted assassination of Reagan, a gunman shot at former President Donald Trump ... President Ronald Reagan and his press secretary were shot by a young man trying to impress Jodie Foster on March 30, 1981. Reagan was shot by John W. Hinckley Jr. on March 30, 1981, as the president and his entourage left the Washington Hilton, where he had given a ... Assassination attempt. The "President's Walk" area where Reagan was shot ; After the shooting. Alexander Haig at the press conference during the ... From the archives: NBC's John Chancellor anchors comprehensive coverage by the NBC News team of the assassination attempt on President ... It took a while for the doctors to discover that he had been shot in the back, five inches below his armpit. He had a collapsed lung and his chest cavity was ... John Warnock Hinckley Jr., who spent 35 years in a psychiatric hospital following the 1981 shooting of President Ronald Reagan, ... The shooter, John Hinckley, Jr. The shooter was 30-year old John Hinckley. Hinckley said that he wanted to shoot President Reagan to impress actress Jodie ... A federal judge on Wednesday granted John Hinckley Jr., the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, “full-time covalescent leave” from St. About the Vice President | Vice Presidents of the United States ; Walter F. Mondale, Democratic, Jimmy Carter ; George H. W. Bush, Republican, Ronald Reagan ; J.