The Chronicle 76Th Year, No
The Chronicle 76th Year, No. 124 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Tuesday, March 31, 1981 Reagan stable after shooting By Howell Raines Hinckley, who eyewitnesses sidewalk, critically wounded. Service agent writhed in pain raincoat, pinning him against a « 1961 NYT News Service said fired six shots at the Reagan, apparently at first on the rain-slick sidewalk. stone wall. "Get him out," a WASHINGTON - President presidential entourage from a unaware that he had been Nearby, a District of Columbia gun-waving officer yelled as the Reagsan was seriously wounded position among the television wounded, was shoved forcefully plainclothesman fell alongside president's limousine sped yesterday in an assassination camera crews and reporters by a Secret Service agent into Brady. The press secretary lay away. At first, it raced down attempt by a lone gunman who assembled outside a hotel exit. the presidential limousine that face down, blood from a Connecticut Avenue toward the also seriously wounded the sped, with the president in a gushing head wound dripping White House. White House press secretary A look of stunned disbelief sitting position in the backseat, into a steel grate. A pistol, and shot two law officers. swept across Reagan's face as a to the George Washington apparently dropped by the Only then, according to some Reagan was hit in the left side bullet struck him just as he University Hospital. officer, lay near his head. reports, was it discovered that ofthe chest during a rapid series raised his left arm to wave to the At the sixth shot, uniformed Reagan was bleeding and the of gun shots that rang out at crowd and as his press secretary, Behind him lay a scene of and plainclothes agents piled vehicle turned west toward the approximately 2:30 p.m., as James S.
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