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On March 21, 1981, Reagan and his wife Nancy visited Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., for a fundraising event. In his autobiography An American Life, Reagan recalled, . I looked up at the presidential box above the stage where Abe Lincoln had been sitting the night he was shot and felt a curious sensation ...
John Warnock Hinckley Jr. (born May 29, 1955) is an American musician who attempted to assassinate U.S. president Ronald Reagan as he left the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 1981, two months after Reagan's first inauguration.
An attempted Presidential assassination shook Central Jerseyans ― and the nation ― when President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest on Monday, March 30, 1981, by John W. Hinckley Jr., 25.
Ronald Wilson Reagan [a] (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party and became an important figure in the American conservative movement .
President Ronald Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton hotel after giving a speech to a union group when John W. Hinckley Jr. opened fire from his .22-caliber revolver. At the sound of the ...
President Ronald Reagan (center) waves just before he is shot outside a Washington, D.C. hotel on March 30, 1981. On March 30, 1981, as Ronald Reagan was returning to his limousine after speaking at the Washington Hilton hotel, would-be assassin John Hinckley Jr., fired six gunshots using a .22 caliber Röhm RG-14 revolver toward him, striking ...
He said Hinckley no longer posed a danger to himself or others and could be released from a government psychiatric hospital in Washington.
Jerry S. Parr (September 16, 1930 – October 9, 2015) was a United States Secret Service agent who is best known for defending President Ronald Reagan during the attempt on the president's life on March 30, 1981, in Washington, D.C. Parr pushed Reagan into the presidential limousine and made the critical decision to divert the presidential motorcade to George Washington University Hospital ...