Word: hinckleys
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According to eyewitness reports and some of the most startling videotape since the film recording the assassination of President John F. Kennedy '40 in 1963. Hinckley fired six shots at Reagan from a small crowd of reporters and onlookers at 2:25 p.m. on Monday, as the smiling president emerged from the Hilton after addressing a group of AFL-CIO leaders...
While the nation reacted to the shooting with shock, disgust and much philosophizing. Reagan ran the country from his hospital bed. Vice President Bush and Cabinet members resumed their normal duties, and federal investigators scoured the land looking for tidbits about the alleged assailant. John Warnock Hinckley, a 25-year-old drifter from Evergreen, Colo. (see story, left...