Such a close call it was,almost lost a great,great LEADER.
What a great line he asked the surgeon before the operation.
Sure do miss him in these dark evil days
The personal impact on Reagan and his family was bad enough, but the worst thing about that incident is that it cursed this nation with a dingbat named Sarah Brady who used it to force her way into the national spotlight with her anti-gun campaign.
Felled by a ricochet-ing .22 projectile.
He was, in the end analysis, a victim of the homosexual agenda.
I remember that. I was just a tween and used to go to the local stable every day after school to muck stalls for free riding lessons. My friends and I would ride the school bus to a grocery store where we would wait for the stable manager to come and pick us up to drive us way out to the farm. We had just gotten off the bus and had run inside the store to buy snacks and sodas . The lady inside had the radio on and told us the president had been shot. We in turn went running outside just as the stable manager was pulling up, yelling, “The president’s been shot! The president’s been shot!” I still remember the look on her face.
First ABC News Bulletin - President Reagan assassination attempt shooting - Frank Reynolds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRTFyWb9fQU
President Reagan Shot assassination attempt Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BakY2SFPLoQ
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EE9ASmO_7E
part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47yBkwueAuc
I also remember seeing his motorcade one day, after he had recovered - but not that long perhaps a year or so, and moving out into the street to get a better look at my hero. The Secret Service yelled at me to move back, which I initially ignored, but soon realized they were about to stop telling me and start acting. Never moved so fast in my life.
That is so vivid in my mind that it is hard for me to think it happened so long ago.
I remember I was at the senior center and they were all crowded around the tv. To think that that was the beginning of the attacks on the 2nd.
Seems he told "the board" that he went to a movie etc. Turns out that the FBI had a tail on him and he had really gone to the library and was looking at old articles about the shooting.
You mean he lied?? How can that be. The psyciatrists all say he's a good boy now.
They should have hung him.
And there should be no insanity defense....ever....because it can never be truly determined.
Why did the Almighty give us RR and show us the way out of progressivism, just to give us the Bushes and the destruction of his legacy right after? To taunt us with what could have been?
Our Vice-Principal came in over the intercom to all classes and told us he was shot. It was about 1410 EST.
He was succinct and to the point. His name was Ben Dalton and I miss that guy.
It was HS in Tennessee.
Wow, 32 years have gone by. Seem like it was not so long ago. We sure could use a leader like Reagan now.
It’s also been 32 years or so since the Brady Bill was the answer to gun violence. Seems that did not work out so well.
Imagine that. /S
Bush connection to Reagan’s shooter Hinckley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_mvsF42PQ0
Was at my college radio station in Mass.; my very first show was Mar 12 of that year, and the UPI teletype (old fashioned one) dinging like crazy. I think press secy. James Brady was erroneously said to be dead in news reports.
Later a punk band (forget who) had a song that started:
First Lincoln
Then Kennedy
But Reagan
Got away.
