My son was 7 months old and teething the day Reagan was shot. We sat on the floor together all day glued to the tv with me giving him those frozen teething rings and praying.....that little boy grew up to be a huge Reagan fan!
He even loudly fought the college commies (and I do mean with a megaphone) in a liberal U of CA...sometimes to the point of his own safety at risk.
My joke has been that that day is the day he learned his conservative values.
Book is pretty good...does show that the Secret Service failed by letting people to close with not enough people..The thing that most surprised me was Hinkley did not plan to shoot Reagan...he stopped in D.C. on the way to New Haven Conn... and read that Reagan was going to give a speech at the Hilton and just went over with a gun to see what was going on..