Reagan's Recovery and Return to Power A Triumph Over Adversity

President Ronald Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton hotel after giving a speech to a union group when John W. Hinckley Jr. opened fire ... A disturbed man named John Hinckley, Jr. shot US President Ronald Reagan with a 22-caliber revolver loaded with explosive charges designed to explode on ... John Hinckley Jr. — the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, in an assassination attempt — was obsessed with "Taxi Driver" and ... John Hinckley, who wounded then U.S. President Ronald Reagan and three others in a 1981 assassination attempt, was released without. On March 30, 1981, President Reagan was shot and rushed to surgery. In the midst of this tragedy, his cabinet had to handle a major question. John Hinckley shot and wounded Ronald Reagan and staff members as he left the Hilton Hotel. WASHINGTON (AP) — For the past decade, the man who shot President Ronald Reagan has quietly spent a growing number of his days living with ... Twenty-nine years ago, John Hinkley opened fire on President Ronald Reagan. Phil Cianciola looks back at that day and reflects on Reagan's presidency and life. John Hinckley, who shot and wounded US president Ronald Reagan in 1981, has been freed from court oversight, officially concluding decades of supervision. In September 2016, three and a half decades after he shot President Ronald Reagan in a deranged bid to impress the actress Jodie Foster — a ...