President Ronald Reagan shot, March 30, 1981

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President Ronald Reagan shot by John Hinckley, March 30, 1981

** FILE ** In this March 30, 1981 file photo, White House press secretary James Brady, face down at right, and Washington, D.C., police officer Thomas Delahanty, front, lie on the ground after being wounded during the assassination attempt on President Reagan as he was leaving the Washington Hilton, March 30, 1981. AP Photographer Ron Edmonds would win a Pulitzer Prize for spot news in 1982 for his coverage.

** FILE ** U.S. President Ronald Reagan winces and raises his left arm as he was shot by an assailant as he left a Washington hotel, in this March 30, 1981 file photo, after making a speech to a labor group. After he was seriously wounded in a 1981 assassination attempt, Reagan described the experience simply in one of his presidential diaries: "Getting shot hurts." Secret Service agent Ray Shaddick is at bottom left.

FILE--President Ronald Reagan is shot and wounded in an assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr. while leaving the Washington Hilton Hotel on March 30, 1981. Presidential Press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy J. McCarthy, and police officer Thomas K. Delahanty were also wounded in the attack. Secret Service agent Ray Shaddick is at bottom left.

Retired Secret Service agent Ray Shaddick is shown in his Sandy Springs home Wednesday, March 23, 2011. Shaddick was one of two agents who pushed former President Ronald Reagan into the presidential limousine after shots were fired outside the Washington Hilton Hotel, with one hitting Reagan, on March 30, 1981.

** FILE ** White House press secretary James Brady lies wounded on the sidewalk outside a Washington hotel after being shot during an assassination attempt on U.S. President Ronald Reagan, in this March 30, 1981 file photo. In the background secret service agents and police wrestle the alleged assailant to the ground. A Secret Service audiotape from the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan sheds lights on the chaotic scene when neither the president nor his agents realized he'd been shot.

** FILE ** John Hinckley is wrestled to the ground in this March 30, 1981 file photo after he slipped in behind cameramen, fired his weapon between them, hitting President Ronald Reagan, Officer Delahanty, and Secret Service Agent Tim McCarthy.

FILE - Secret Service agent Timothy J. McCarthy, foreground, Washington police officer, Thomas K. Delehanty, center, and presidential Press Secretary, James Brady, background, lie wounded on a street outside a Washington hotel after shots were fired at U.S. President Reagan on March 30, 1981. Thirty years later McCarthy, who threw himself into the line of fire taking a bullet intended for President Reagan, is now a police chief in a Chicago suburb.

Orland Park Police Chief Tim McCarthy sits at his office in Orland Park, Illinois, March 24, 2011. McCarthy talks about the day 30 years ago when, as a Secret Service agent, he was wounded while protecting President Ronald Reagan from an assassination attempt.

U.S. President Ronald Reagan winces and raises his left arm as he was shot by an assailant as he left a Washington hotel in this March 30, 1981, file photo, after making a speech to a labor group.

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** FILE ** In this March 30, 1981 file photo, White House press secretary James Brady, face down at right, and Washington, D.C., police officer Thomas Delahanty, front, lie on the ground after being wounded during the assassination attempt on President Reagan as he was leaving the Washington Hilton, March 30, 1981. AP Photographer Ron Edmonds would win a Pulitzer Prize for spot news in 1982 for his coverage.

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