A Nation's Tragedy The Reagan Assassination Attempt

On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley tried to kill President Ronald Reagan. Hinckley shot the president, and his press secretary Jim Brady. An attempted Presidential assassination shook Central Jerseyans ― and the nation ― when President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest on Monday, ... In 1981, John Hinckley Jr. shot and wounded Pres. Reagan and three ... apologizes for 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan ... Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die. Of Irish descent, he was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan had addressed the Building and Construction Workers Union of the AFL-CIO at the Washington Hilton Hotel in ... John Hinckley, who wounded then U.S. President Ronald Reagan and three others in a 1981 assassination attempt, was released without ... When President Ronald Reagan was shot on March 30, 1981, chaos ensued behind the scenes at the White House. With no real protocol in place for such a ... seriously wounded the president and three others on March 30, 1981. The incident marked the first time a sitting U.S. president survived being ... John Warnock Hinckley Jr., who spent 35 years in a psychiatric hospital following the 1981 shooting of President Ronald Reagan, ... Washington, D.C., when John Hinckley Jr., attempted to assassinate him. ... shot beneath his left arm pit, and rushed him into emergency surgery ...