Reagan's Remarkable Recovery From Tragedy to Triumph

Crimes of the Century looks at the 1981 attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley. Hinckley shot the president because he thought ... “A young gunman ambushed President Reagan at close range yesterday and fired six shots from a .22-caliber pistol — one of them piercing the ... On March 30, 1981, John W. Hinckley, Jr., shot President Ronald Reagan and several others in a failed assassination attempt. The FBI conducted an extensive ... Six shots were fired, wounding the President, Agent Tim McCarthy, Metropolitan Police Officer Thomas Delahanty, and White House Press Secretary James Brady. John Warnock Hinckley Jr., who spent 35 years in a psychiatric hospital following the 1981 shooting of President Ronald Reagan, ... 'Violence is not the way to go. Give peace a chance,' Hinckley says after former president was inches away from losing his life at ... Archive video shows the moment a gunmen shot former White House Press Secretary James Brady in an attempt to assassinate then-President ... The very first thing he said to the First Lady when she arrived at the hospital was, “Honey, I forgot to duck,” a reference to a one-liner used by boxer Jack ... WASHINGTON (AP) — For the past decade, the man who shot President Ronald Reagan has quietly spent a growing number of his days living with ... John Hinckley Jr. 1981 On March 30th, an attempt to assassinate then - US President Ronald Reagan ended in an attempt.