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...especially alert to the possibility that someone might try to take his life. That knowledge has brought a tinge of apprehension to even the most routine presidential assignments. TIME'S Dirck Halstead had just such a prosaic task last week: taking pictures of President Reagan at the Washington Hilton. Suddenly gunshots rang out. Halstead, who photographed one of the assassination attempts on Gerald Ford in 1975, was able to take some of the dramatic pictures that accompany this week's cover stories. Says Halstead: "It has become necessary to bring to this assignment the constant awareness that violence...
Other TIME staffers were on the scene moments later. Correspondent Douglas Brew, who was getting audience reaction to Reagan's speech at the Hilton, raced outside and interviewed eyewitnesses. Correspondent Johanna McGeary, who was at lunch a block away, joined him there. White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett, who wrote TIME'S cover story on the shooting of Robert Kennedy in 1968, was about to leave on vacation when he heard about the Hilton incident. He rushed to the White House and then to the hospital, and on Friday got an exclusive interview with Nancy Reagan. New York Bureau...
...interesting thing is that people can actually do this; can take a terrifying, chaotic act and eventually make some sense of it. What occurred outside the Washington Hilton was irrational and destructive. Yet the reactions it generated were both sane and helpful; and they were connected to one's best feelings about the country and the Government. When the President was shot, Americans prayed very hard, not for the life of an abstraction, but for a man, one who as leader of the democracy carries some thing of everyone in that mortal chest. If people were ashamed and dismayed...
...carried no press credentials, which accredited reporters and cameramen wear about their necks and are supposed to keep visible at all times. The Secret Service insists there was no intention to create a closed press area at the Hilton site. The spectators were not considered intruders. Why was not the presidential car parked directly in front of the exit, instead of 15 ft. away? The Service claimed that the positioning permitted a faster exit and was normal. "They are wrong," insists TIME Photographer Dirck Halstead. "I've covered that exit many times, and the President's car was always right...
...BEFORE THE ACADEMY AWARDS this year was spent in front of the television set. Americans watched again and again the same few minutes of action outside the Washington Hilton: and the next night it was just a matter of settling back into their easy chairs to tune into the Oscars. And, eerily, as the ceremonies got underway, the familiar glitz and glamor began to resonate with echoes of the previous day's tragedy. "Hooray for Hollywood," sang the chorus-line that opened the show and their refrain became a bizarre theme-song for the events of the day before; there...