The Day Reagan Was Shot A Nation in Shock

March 30, 1981: Reagan exits a Washington, D.C., hotel when gunman John Hinckley Jr. fires. On this day in 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest by John Hinckley Jr. 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 ... 'Violence is not the way to go. Give peace a chance,' Hinckley says after former president was inches away from losing his life at ... 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 ... shot US President Ronald Reagan with a 22-caliber revolver loaded with explosive charges designed to explode on contact. Hinckley believed the ... Forty years ago, on March 30, 1981, John Hinckley, Jr. fired shots at President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton, including one that ... 40 YEARS AGO TODAY: On March 30, 1981, an attempted assassin shot President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton Hotel. John Hinckley shot and wounded Ronald Reagan and staff members as he left the Hilton Hotel. Archive video shows the moment a gunmen shot former White House Press Secretary James Brady in an attempt to assassinate then-President ...