Reagan's Assassination The Aftermath and Legacy

482 votes, 136 comments. On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was nearly assassinated in an attempt by John Hinckley Jr. As Reagan was ... It's been four decades since the attempt on President Ronald Reagan's life. News4's Pat Collins looks back on March 30, 1981: the day that ... On March 30, 1981 - a little over two months after taking office, Reagan was shot by a would be assassin named John Hinckley. Hinckley had no political agenda. Author Del Quentin Wilber does a splendid job of recreating the events of John Hinckley's near assassination of President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. An attempted Presidential assassination shook Central Jerseyans ― and the nation ― when President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest on Monday, ... John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate the president outside the Washington Hilton Hotel. Reagan was injured by a single bullet. On that date, a bullet from the gun of schizophrenic John Hinckley Jr. hit President Ronald Reagan as the latter exited a Washington, D.C., ... John Hinckley, who shot and wounded US president Ronald Reagan in 1981, has been freed from court oversight, officially concluding decades of supervision. John Hinckley Jr. Speaks Out as He's Freed After Trying to Assassinate President Ronald Reagan. A judge confirmed that John Hinckley Jr. would ... On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. fired six shots on Reagan three months after he took office, hitting the sitting president and three ...