Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rapidity of the shots fired at the Hilton made it difficult for the FBI to pinpoint the sequence of the multiple wounding. Studying the video tapes and the ballistics evidence, the FBI tentatively concluded that Reagan was hit after he had been doubled over by Agent Parr and was being pushed into his car. In a freak bit of chance, the bullet apparently bounced off the car's window frame and through the narrow gap between the open door and the car body...
There are no set rules for the number of agents required for a presidential trip; for a routine speech like the one that Reagan gave last week at the Washington Hilton Hotel, perhaps two dozen agents will be used. Every presidential motorcade has at least two cars filled with agents, including a station wagon, code-named War Wagon, that is crammed with weapons (ranging from Israeli-made Uzi submachine guns to shotguns), first-aid supplies and even tools for prying the President out of his car in case of a crash...
Because all of them in their chosen fields had proved themselves among the best at what they do, they had earned the right to be with the President as he left the Washington Hilton Hotel last week. James Brady, 40, through an admixture of diligence, drive and affability, had parlayed 19 years of handling public relations work?including stints with the Defense Department, Senator William Roth and Candidate John Connally?into the plum of his profession, presidential press secretary. Timothy McCarthy, 31, the son of a Chicago policeman, joined the Secret Service in 1972 and two years ago won assignment...
Thomas Delahanty, 45, had received more than 30 letters of commendation in his 17 years on the Washington, D.C., police force. When his canine patrol partner, a German shepherd named Kirk, became ill last week, Delahanty was a natural choice for the Hilton assignment. The trio's diverse paths led them, for two tragic seconds last week, into the line of fire between John Hinckley's revolver and the man he allegedly intended to assassinate...
Reporters and TV correspondents on the scene had but one thing on their minds: to get to a telephone. Dean Reynolds of U.P.I. bolted to the front desk of the Washington Hilton, blurting to a clerk, "I gotta use your phone." Getting through to an editor, he shouted, "The President's been shot at!" "Let's go," replied the editor as two rewrite men joined the line, taking a sentence or two of dictation in turns before typing it into the computer. At 2:31 p.m., U.P.I, went on the air with its report, just a minute after...