March 30, 1981: Assassination Attempt on President Reagan

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March 30, 1981: Assassination Attempt on President Reagan

 

By: Callie OettingerDate:March30 , 2011

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Secret Service Command Post Radio Traffic

• From “Shots Fired” moment to decision to take President Reagan to the hospital. (Transcript) (Audio)
  

Reagan Officials on the March 30, 1981 Assassination Attempt

• The Reagan Oral History Project, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia
  

Interviews with doctors, nurses, secrets services agents and others connected to the president that day.

• Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan, by Del Quentin Wilber
  

Statement by Assistant to the President David R. Gergen About the Attempted Assassination of the President

Good afternoon. This is to confirm the statements made at George Washington Hospital that the President was shot once in the left side

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Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan

 

 

 

 

 

By: Del Quentin WilberDate:March18 , 2011

 

 

 

A day before the course of his presidency was forever changed, Ronald Reagan walked to church with his wife, Nancy. Sunday, March 29, 1981, was bright and warm, and as the Reagans strolled through the White House gates and across Pennsylvania Avenue, the president held the first lady’s hand. Trailed by Secret Service agents and a few journalists, the couple waved at onlookers and smiled for camera-toting tourists. As they walked through Lafayette Square, a woman pushed her young child through the security perimeter. Grinning, the president bent over to say hello.

Lately Reagan had not been able to attend church as often as he would have liked. During the previous year’s campaign it had been hard enough; since the inauguration, it had been almost impossible. For obvious reasons, security requirements for any trip outside the White House were cumbersome. He also didn’t want to impose on parishioners, who had to be screened by Secret Service agents and were often distracted by the presence of the president and his wife.

But that spring morning, the Reagans had chosen to attend the eleven o’clock service at St. John’s Church, a place of worship

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