Assassination Attempt of President Reagan
A news artical from the FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation.
"On March 31, 1981, John W. Hinckley, Jr., shot President Ronald Reagan and several others in a failed assassination attempt. The FBI conducted an extensive investigation, named REAGAT. This FOIA release consists of an extensive “Prosecutive Report” submitted by the FBI to the Department of Justice in May 1981 as Justice lawyers considered how to
prosecute Hinckley for the attacks."
March 30, 1981, tragedy almost befell the American government when John
Hinckley, a deranged drifter trying to impress actress Jodie Foster on whom he had developed an
obsession after seeing her in Taxi Driver, fired six shots from a .22-caliber revolver at President Ronald Reagan as the president left a speech he
had given to the National Conference of Building and Construction Trades
Department of the AFL-CIO at the Washington Hilton.