Reagan's Resilience Overcoming the Assassination Attempt

Reagan recovered from the March 30, 1981, shooting, but his press secretary, James Brady, who died in 2014, was partially paralyzed as a result. On March 30, 1981, Hinckley shot a .22 caliber Röhm RG-14 revolver six times at former President Reagan as he left the Hilton Hotel in ... On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was just seventy days into his first term of office when John Hinckley Jr. opened fire outside the Washington Hilton ... President Reagan waves to the crowd immediately before being shot in an assassination attempt after exiting Washington Hilton Hotel. The training of the Secret Service was in evidence when an assassination attempt was made on President Ronald Reagan in 1981, this lead to ... I really did, in U S Army uniform, as Reagan was the Antichrist. And President Reagan really deserved to be shot and even killed as then he was ... ... president or presidential candidate was in 1981, when Ronald Reagan was shot. Hear from reporter Lem Tucker, who witnessed that shooting and ... President Ronald Reagan was shot and nearly killed as he left the Washington Hilton Hotel on March 30, 1981 — 40 years ago as of Tuesday. “ ... WASHINGTON - On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington, D.C., hotel, along with three other ... In fact, Reagan was not only shot, he was in grave danger. The bullets that Hinckley fired were explosive and the one inside the president could ...