Ronald Reagan's Unwavering Courage Facing the Attackers

March 30, 1981: Reagan exits a Washington, D.C., hotel when gunman John Hinckley Jr. fires. Streaming now at https://abc7.ws/484PqhJ The country hasn't seen an assassination attempt on a president or a presidential candidate since ... On the surface the parallels between 1981 and what happened Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a gunman fired shots at former President ... The causes of the mistakes in Butler, the Secret Service's biggest security failure since the 1981 attempted assassination of President Ronald ... Hinckley was found not guilty of the shooting by reason of insanity in 1982 and ordered to live at a psychiatrist hospital. In the 2000s, ... On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. fired six shots on Reagan three months after he took office, hitting the sitting president and three ... John Hinckley does his best to impress Jodie Foster by firing a few rounds at President Ronald Reagan. He hits Reagan in the armpit, and nearly kills Brady ... On March 30, 1981, President Reagan was shot and rushed to surgery. In the midst of this tragedy, his cabinet had to handle a major ... All six of Hinckley's shots missed Reagan. While one Secret Service agent pushed Reagan into the limo, another put himself between the shooter ... 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 ...