Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brady lay on the sidewalk, blood seeping from a wound in his head and trickling into an iron grating. He tried to rise. Rick Ahearn, a White House advanceman, cradled Brady's face and shouted: "A handkerchief, a handkerchief!" Dropped in the turmoil, a police pistol lay incongruously beside Brady's head. McCarthy had been trained to try to block any shots at the President with his own body; when the firing began, he turned away from the limousine toward the assailant. Hit in the abdomen by a bullet that might well have struck the President, McCarthy whirled away from...
...really came down hard on top of me." The agent apologized and helped Reagan sit upright on the rear seat. The car was speeding down Connecticut Avenue toward the White House. Said Parr later: "I ran my hands over his body, under his arms, his back." He detected no wound. The limousine was less than 15 seconds away from the Hilton when Reagan said again that his ribs hurt. "He complained of having some problems with his breathing," said Parr. "He was getting an ashen color. Then he started to cough up some blood. My first impression was that somehow...
Says a Washington, D.C., surgeon, an ex pert in bullet injuries: "A gunshot wound to the chest is always serious, especially in a 70-year-old. I am sure that Reagan's doctors were a lot more concerned at the time than they acknowledged...
Police Officer Delahanty's wife also saw her husband's shooting on television. "I didn't even know he was with the President," she said. The bullet struck Delahanty's left shoulder and lodged in his neck, damaging no blood vessels but bruising a nerve. The result of his wound seemed minor: a temporary loss of sensation on the inside of his left forearm, excessive sweating of the palm and erection of the hairs on his arm. In fact, doctors saw no reason even to remove the bullet from his neck ? until it was discovered that Hinckley had used...
...them with carrying firearms illegally. The patrol has since agreed to stick to bats. Atlanta officials maintain that the vigilantes do not have the support of most of their neighbors. Says Mayor Maynard Jackson: "These things are upsetting people who are already distraught. This is rubbing salt into the wound...