The Pivotal Moment Reagan's Comeback and the Nation's Response

John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981 in a failed assassination attempt, was fully released from court restrictions on Wednesday. John Hinckley Jr. had poked a .22 calibre revolver through a crowd of people on Florida Walk, Washington DC, and fired six shots at the recently inaugurated US ... WASHINGTON — A federal judge gave his final blessing Wednesday to full freedom for John Hinckley, the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in ... It happened on a dreary March afternoon in 1981. President Ronald Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton hotel after giving a speech to a ... 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 ... On July 2, 1881, in a Washington railroad station, an embittered attorney who had sought a consular post shot the President. Mortally wounded, Garfield lay in ... President Ronald Reagan is pushed into the president's limousine by secret service agents after being shot outside a Washington hotel, March 30, ... Reagan nearly died from a chest wound. Three others, including Brady, were struck by bullets from Hinckley's handgun. Hinckley Jr., now 59, was found not guilty ... John Hinckley, who became a household name in 1981 when he tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan to impress actress Jodie Foster, ... Hinckley was found him not guilty by reason of insanity in a jury trial, and was ordered to live at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington.