When Reagan's Life Hung in the Balance The Assassination Attempt

On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by a drifter named John Hinckley Jr. The ... On March 30, 1981, Hinckley shot Reagan in an assassination attempt outside the Washington Hilton Hotel. Reagan suffered a punctured lung but ... wounded President Ronald Reagan and three others in an assassination attempt he hoped would earn the affection of the Oscar-winning actress he ... 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 ... The Chronicle's front page from March 31, 1981, covers the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan and the wounding of three other men. John Hinckley does his best to impress Jodie Foster by firing a few rounds at President Ronald Reagan. He hits Reagan in the armpit, and nearly kills Brady ... Ronald Reagan: Presidential Patient ... George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the GW Hospital vaulted onto the ... The last time an American president was injured in an assassination attempt was 43 years ago, when 25-year-old John Hinckley Jr. shot President ... John Hinckley, Jr., accused assassinate of President Reagan, sits in the back of this motioned vehicle outside the federal court in DC shortly ... How American presidents have planned their own funerals ·

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, has died ; John Hinckley, who shot Reagan, ...