US EditionOn This Day, March 30: John Hinckley Jr. shoots, injures President Ronald Reagan
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ARCHIVES. On 30 March 1981, US President Ronald Reagan, who had just taken office, was targeted by shootings at the exit of a meeting with trade union leaders. A political attack? Not really. The gunman, John Hinckley, wanted to draw the attention... of actress Jodie Foster. The Republican came out alive by miracle. It was 45 years ago.
The only Secret Service agent who saved the life of a US president by shielding him with his own breast was Tim McCarthy when on March 30, 1981, John Hinckley, obsessed with his love for Jodie Foster, tried to shoot Ronald Reagan.
It is the 45th anniversary of the attack on Ronald Reagan at the hands of a young American of good family, obsessed by both fame and a certain actress of Taxi Driver.
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