The Reagan Assassination Attempt A Test of Character and Leadership

... assassination attempt against U.S. President Ronald Reagan ... A look at John Hinkley's 1981 assassination attempt against U.S. President Ronald Reagan. apologizes for 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. In 1981, John Hinckley Jr. shot and wounded Pres. Reagan and three ... The attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan ... The last attempt to assassinate a U.S. president or presidential candidate was in 1981, when ... Del Quentin Wilber, author of Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan, recreated the afternoon of March 30, 1981. If they had gone to the White House and not straight to the George Washington [hospital], he would have died. Just as the assassination of JFK ... Reagan Assassination Attempt Part 1.pdf — PDF document, 4,186 kB (4,286,504 bytes). On this day in 1981, John Hinckley Jr. made an assassination attempt on President Reagan after he spoke at an event at the Washington Hilton Hotel. Ronald Reagan had been in office for only 69 days when would-be assassin John Hinckley Jr. seriously wounded the president and three others on March 30, 1981. From the archives: NBC's John Chancellor anchors comprehensive coverage by the NBC News team of the assassination attempt on President ... Donald Trump's courageous response to the assassination attempt on him is reminiscent of how former President Ronald Reagan deftly responded ...