Assassins of Ronald Reagan A Shocking Portrait

A federal judge has found Ronald Reagan's would-be assassin no longer a threat to society and ordered his release from a mental hospital. John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981 in a failed assassination attempt, was fully released from court restrictions on Wednesday. On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington, DC, hotel, along with three other people. In a letter sent before the attack, Hinckley, now 66, confessed that his motive in attempting to kill the President was to impress Foster, whom ... On March 30, 1981, John W. Hinckley, Jr., shot President Ronald Reagan and several others in a failed assassination attempt. When Ronald Reagan, a strong anti-communist, took office as president in 1981, he was determined to assert America's power and put a stop to any Soviet ... ... Killing Reagan explores how the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan impacted his presidency. Reaching back to the golden days ... Ronald Reagan, originally an American actor and politician, became the 40th President of the United States serving from 1981 to 1989. In addition to wounding Reagan, the attack paralyzed the then president's press secretary, James Brady, who died in 2014. A police officer ... On March 30, 1981, Ronald Reagan, then president of the United States, was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, DC.