Tracing the Shooter The Man Behind the Ronald Reagan Assassination Attempt

On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded when attacked on the streets of Washington, D.C. by John Hinckley Jr. President Reagan passed John Hinckley, who was part of the crowd. Hinckley was able to fire six shots, all missing the president. 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 ... Forty years ago, on March 30, 1981, John Hinckley, Jr. fired shots at President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton, including one that ... John Hinckley shot and wounded Ronald Reagan and staff members as he left the Hilton Hotel. The 30th of March, 1981, the delusional John Hinckley Jr. tries to kill president Ronald Reagan. His life hangs on a thin thread at the hospital. seriously wounded the president and three others on March 30, 1981. The incident marked the first time a sitting U.S. president survived being ... 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 ... He has previously expressed remorse for the assassination attempt outside the Washington Hilton hotel on 31 March 1981, which left the then ...