Reagan's Foreign Policy The Cold War and Beyond

March 30, 1981 – At 2:25 pm EST, President Ronald Reagan comes out of the Hilton Hotel in Washington. Hinckley is waiting for him in the crowd ... It was one of those two shots that hit the president under his left arm, grazing a rib and narrowly missing his heart. The sixth shot traveled across the ... 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 ... An attempted Presidential assassination shook Central Jerseyans ― and the nation ― when President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest on Monday, ... It was then we learned I'd been shot & had a bullet in my lung. Getting shot hurts. Still my fear was growing because no matter how hard I tried ... Reagan nearly died from a chest wound. Three others, including Brady, were struck by bullets from Hinckley's handgun. Hinckley Jr., now 59, was found not guilty ... Archive video shows the moment a gunmen shot former White House ... Get more news on. UP NEXT. 'Like a bomb dropped on it': Aerial view ... The president had just finished addressing a labor meeting at the Washington Hilton Hotel and was walking with his entourage to his limousine ... On March 30, 1981, lone gunman John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in broad daylight, nearly killing him. My day to address the Bldg. & Const. Trades Nat. Conf. A.F.L.-C.I.O. at the Hilton Ballroom—2 P.M. Was all dressed to go & for some reason at ...