Ronald Reagan's Shocking Assassination Attempt The Full Story

March 30, 1981: President Reagan shot ; Jennifer Garner using 'celebrity privilege' to aid Californians affected by wildfires. 01:55 ; Pasadena ... President Reagan waves to the crowd immediately before being shot in an assassination attempt after exiting Washington Hilton Hotel. 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 ... On March 30, 1981, John W. Hinckley, Jr., shot President Ronald Reagan and several others in a failed assassination attempt. It happened on a dreary March afternoon in 1981. President Ronald Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton hotel after giving a speech to a ... WASHINGTON (AP) — The would-be assassin got off six shots in 1.7 seconds, nearly taking the life of a president and changing the trajectory ... 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 ... 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 ... 35 years ago, John Hinckley tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in an attempt to impress actress Jodie Foster. When President Ronald Reagan was shot on this day, March 30, in 1981, it was anything but funny. The assassination attempt by John W ...