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Attempted assassination. On March 21, 1981, new president Ronald Reagan, who took office on January 20, 1981, and his wife Nancy visited Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., for a fundraising event. In his autobiography An American Life, Reagan recalled,
Nov 13, 2020 · A few months later, on March 30, 1981, Reagan was nearly killed by a would-be assassin in an ambush attack that shocked the world. Already a famous actor and major leader of the...
John Warnock Hinckley Jr. (born May 29, 1955) is an American man 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.
Jun 16, 2022 · John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981 in a failed assassination attempt, was fully released from court restrictions on Wednesday.
Assassination Attempt on Reagan. March 30, 1981. President Reagan waving to the crowd just before Hinckley fires his gun. On a rainy afternoon after just 69 days in office, President Ronald Reagan addressed the National Conference of Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO at the Washington Hilton Hotel.
Apr 2, 2014 · John Hinckley Jr. gained national notoriety in 1981 when he attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan outside of a Washington, D.C. hotel.
Oct 3, 2021 · With John Hinckley's bullet still lodged in his chest, President Ronald Reagan was rushed to George Washington University Hospital, which is about nine minutes from the Hilton hotel where he'd been shot. One of the surgeons who met him there was Dr. Benjamin Aaron, then chief of cardiothoracic surgery at GWU.
