A Nation on Edge The Ronald Reagan Assassination Attempt and Its Impact

seriously wounded the president and three others on March 30, 1981. The incident marked the first time a sitting U.S. president survived being ... shot Reagan, White House press secretary James Brady and two officers outside a Washington hotel on March 30, 1981, less than two months into ... On this day in 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest at the side entrance of the Washington Hilton on Connecticut Avenue by John Hinckley Jr. opened fire on U.S. President Ronald Reagan just outside the Washington Hilton Hotel. President Reagan was hit by one bullet, which punctured ... Ronald Reagan (1981, by John Hinckley Jr.) is the only sitting U.S. president to have been injured in an assassination attempt. Theodore Roosevelt (1912, by ... President Ronald Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton hotel ... He joked with advisers as he was being wheeled into the operating room. John Hinckley shot and wounded Ronald Reagan and staff members as he left the Hilton Hotel. On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. opened fire at former President Ronald Reagan and his staff. Found not guilty by reason of insanity, ... It happened on a dreary March afternoon in 1981. President Ronald Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton hotel after giving a speech to a ... 40 YEARS AGO TODAY: On March 30, 1981, an attempted assassin shot President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton Hotel. The gunman said ...