The Assassination Attempt that Rocked the Nation Ronald Reagan's Story

On March 30, 1981, while returning to his motorcade after a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel, then-President Ronald Reagan was ... The year was 1981. Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan was shot after leaving a speaking engagement in Washington, D. C. The quick action of ... ... President Ronald Reagan made it home from the Washington Hinton Hotel alive. The ripples of that March morning can still be felt years later ... Parr was in charge of Reagan's detail on March 30, 1981, when a young man with mental problems, John Hinckley Jr., shot the president outside ... 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 ... On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. fired six shots on Reagan three months after he took office, hitting the sitting president and three ... Chaos surrounds ... On March 30, 1981 - a little over two months after taking office, Reagan was shot by a would be assassin named John Hinckley. Hinckley had no political agenda. On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously wounded outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John W. Hinckley Jr. Also wounded were. John W. Hinckley Jr. tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981 in Washington, D.C..