Posted on 02/18/2017 6:20:40 PM PST by lbtbell
As the shooter John Hinckley returns to life outside of imprisonment, it worth looking back at every thing the media got wrong that day.
At 2:27 p.m. on March 30, 1981, Secret Service agents were escorting President Ronald Reagan and White House staffers from a speech before the AFL-CIO at the Washington Hilton Hotel. About 100 people waited by the side entrance of the hotel to see the president as he walked to his limousine, which was parked about 12 feet away on T Street NW. Wearing a blue suit, Reagan smiled and waved, pausing for a split second as a reporter, Sam Donaldson of ABC News, called his name from a roped-off press area. From that same area, John W. Hinckley fired six shots. Jerry Parr, head of the president Secret Service detail, shoved a surprised Reagan into the limousine.
And with that, the assassination attempt on a sitting president, less than a decade after two failed attempts on Gerald Ford and 18 years after Lee Harvey Oswald shot John F. Kennedy, was over. But how the news spread, with misinformation seeding chaos here and abroad, presented a cautionary tale for the media, one it still struggles with today.
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
I remember sitting there and watching everything via ABC News with Frank Reynolds, who at some point....got extremely blunt with the guys around him that they were giving him speculation....NOT facts. Reynolds was one of the few 1950’s style reporters still around at that point.
Good question. Since there is no statute of limitations,l on murder, if it could be shown that Brady died as a result of his injuries, Hinckley could have been charged with his murder. I will have to do some research on this.
Brady died in Alexandria, Virginia, at the age of 73. His family announced his death on August 4, 2014.[13] On August 8, 2014, in a controversial decision due to the length of time involved, his death was described by the medical examiner as a homicide[2] caused by the gunshot wound he received in 1981, approximately 33 years after the fact. Hinckley did not face charges as a result of Brady’s death due to having been found not guilty of the original crime by reason of insanity
No problem. Thank you for the apology!
LOL
I read this week that the Canadian who attacked a man on a bus - brutally killed and ate his flesh - only few years ago is being set free. The story is that he is quite safe now because he will not go off his meds.
National health care?
Thanks for the info!
I’ll read that when I’m done laughing at you.
It may take a decade or two.
Yes, all us who have for years who have been pointing at the confluence of the intelligence community and inordinate control over politicians are just tin hat guys, right?
Seems the Snowden and Wikileaks revelations show there is a shadow government.
You can laugh - but you are a fool.
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