[SMGFan]

I learned about the shooting at 230pm after last high school class of that day. I was very worried.

[SMGFan]

actually more like 245pm as saw the story in high school library TV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRTFyWb9fQU

[MeshugeMikey]

now thats HEALTHCARE....not scamware.!

Thank you.

[Moonmad27]

The room of the Reagan Library that shows the footage and displays the items from that event is so well done — makes you feel like you were on the street when it happened. Chilling.

[Sirius Lee]

The press has yet to follow up on the HInckley/Bush connection. John Chancellor remarked on the "bizarre coincidence" of Neil Bush and Scott Hinckley having dinner plans. At the time of the shooting Hinckley, Sr. a big oil contributor to the Bush primary campaign, was under investigation for overcharges to the Energy Department under Reagan.

After Chancellor's little slip the Bush/Hinckley connection was never again mentioned by the press. Stranger than the "bizarre coincidence" was the acute apathy on the part of a press that would normally be angling to attack a Republican politician for any little thing. CIA mockingbirds can make stories go away.

[Popman]

Somewhere libtards are grinding their teeth Reagan survived...

I always find it strange that libtards hate Reagan with a burning passion....

You can disagree with his politics, but he did manage to pull the country out of a terrible time....I know...I was there...

[njslim]

that day was going to gun store to pick up new pistol......

[yldstrk]

Obviously it was Secret Service failure to check the crowd to prevent a mental patient from being that close to the President.

[wolfman]

Reagans choice of Bush as his running mate was disappointing at the time and proved to be by far his biggest mistake.

[ifinnegan]

I don’t remember hearing about it when it happened.

I was 20. I guess I didn’t really care about or pay attention to politics or current events.

[Tupelo]

The saddest figure in Reagan assassination attempt has to be Jim Brady. For thirty three years, this poor man has been dragged out propped up in a corner as evidence that guns are the biggest threat to civilization in history.

[Cen-Tejas]

........I went through a successful assassination back in high school. I was a sophomore and the school plan that day (a large school) was that classes would be let out right after noon so everyone could drive down and see Kennedy driving down Congress Avenue in downtown Austin.

Instead, sitting on the stage in the lunchroom watching the girls eat lunch the PA system came on and the principal announced Kennedy had been “shot in Dallas in a motorcade”. About 30 mins later he announced he was dead. All the girls and a few women teachers started crying.

School let out anyway.