President Reagan shot – “The president was [not?] hit,” – (March 30, 1981) – EP 5

When Ronald Reagan was elected president in November 1980, he hoped to defy an unusually grim circumstance of that office. In the seven previous even-numbered decades, every U.S. President had died in office – four times from assassin’s bullets. A few months later, on March 30, 1981, as President Reagan strolled outside the Washington Hilton Hotel, he nearly met the same fate.

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Statement by Assistant to the President David R. Gergen (PDF)

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