Presidential Security in the Spotlight The Reagan Shooting and Its Impact

WASHINGTON (AP) — For the past decade, the man who shot President Ronald Reagan has quietly spent a growing number of his days living with ... 1981, a deranged drifter named John W. Hinckley, Jr., fired six shots from a .22-calibre revolver at Reagan as he left a Washington, D.C., hotel. One of the ... The attempted assassination of Reagan – On March 30, 1981, six shots were fired at President Ronald Reagan outside the Hilton Hotel in ... 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. A note written to actress Jodie Foster from John Hinckley, Jr. on March 6, 1981, just over three weeks before President Reagan was shot. Growing ... 'Violence is not the way to go. Give peace a chance,' Hinckley says after former president was inches away from losing his life at ... A minute-by-minute account of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. On March 30, 1981, President Reagan walked out of a hotel in Washington, DC, and ... First ABC News Bulletin - President Reagan assassination attempt shooting - Frank Reynolds · President Ronald Reagan Assassination Attempt CNN ... 35 years ago, John Hinckley tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in an attempt to impress actress Jodie Foster. Here's a recap of how it ... John Warnock Hinckley Jr., who spent 35 years in a psychiatric hospital following the 1981 shooting of President Ronald Reagan, ...