Reagan's Indomitable Spirit Refusing to Yield to the Assassination Attempt

From the archives: NBC's John Chancellor anchors comprehensive coverage by the NBC News team of the assassination attempt on President ... Washington, D.C., when John Hinckley Jr., attempted to assassinate him. ... shot beneath his left arm pit, and rushed him into emergency surgery ... A story you may have seen claims the man who shot former president Ronald Reagan is set to perform in concert this month on the anniversary ... Would-be assassin John Hinckley Jr. to be released June 15 ... A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has granted unconditional release to would-be ... Reagan recovered from the March 30, 1981, shooting, but his press secretary, James Brady, who died in 2014, was partially paralyzed as a result. On March 30, 1981, lone gunman John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in broad daylight, nearly killing him. On March 30, 1981, Ronald Reagan, then president of the United States, was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, DC. John Hinckley Jr. said he doesn't remember what he was feeling when he fired the shots that wounded Ronald Reagan and three others. Author: ... NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — John Hinckley Jr. , who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was freed from court oversight Wednesday, ... 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 ...