Analyzing the Consequences The Impact of Reagan's Shooting

John Hinckley, the man who shot and wounded then-US President Ronald Reagan and three others in 1981, has been granted unconditional release 41 years after ... The attempted assassination of Reagan – On March 30, 1981, six shots were fired at President Ronald Reagan outside the Hilton Hotel in ... Reagan recovered from the March 30, 1981, shooting, but his press secretary, James Brady, who died in 2014, was partially paralyzed as a result. 'Violence is not the way to go. Give peace a chance,' Hinckley says after former president was inches away from losing his life at ... Jeff Taylor/AP Five members of the jury, which found John Hinckley Jr. not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting of President Ronald ... Reagan, at age 69, became the oldest president-elect in the country's history. So quick and decisive was the verdict of the voters that Carter ... On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. opened fire at former President Ronald Reagan and his staff. Found not guilty by reason of insanity, ... A federal judge on Wednesday granted John Hinckley Jr., the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, “full-time covalescent leave” from St. The very first thing he said to the First Lady when she arrived at the hospital was, “Honey, I forgot to duck,” a reference to a one-liner used by boxer Jack ... On the surface the parallels between 1981 and what happened Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a gunman fired shots at former President ...