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History of the Ronald Reagan assassination attempt
Episode 59 • 10th April 2023 • Talk With History: Discover Your History Road Trip • Scott and Jenn of Walk with History
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On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded in an assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr. outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Reagan had just finished giving a speech when Hinckley fired six shots, hitting Reagan and three other people. Reagan was rushed to the hospital and underwent surgery to remove a bullet from his lung. Here is the history of that event...

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Scott:

March 30th, 1981.

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It was a Monday, like many Spring Mondays in the DC area.

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Overcast and cool enough to warrant wearing a jacket as a spring was

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ushering in the cherry blossoms and slowly but surely chasing

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away that bitter winter chill.

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The day was like any other, but not for long.

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Yes, this was still our nation's capital and there were politicians,

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journalists, labor leaders, and many other people at the , Washington

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Hilton, for the Reaganomics speech that had just been given.

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In fact, there were several hundred people at this AFL C I O fundraiser

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with the keynote speaker being none other than the Gipper himself.

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It was 2:27 PM.

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That the Secret Service announced to in each other's ears that "Rawhide"

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was on the move walking to his vehicle to head back home when all

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of a sudden gunshots rang out and President Ronald Reagan was shot.

Scott:

Welcome to Talk With History.

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I am your host Scott, here with my wife and historian Jen.

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Hello.

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On this podcast, we give you insights to our history inspired both travels,

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YouTube channel journey, and examine history through deeper conversations

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with the curious, the explorers and the history lovers out there.

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Now, before we get into talking about this historic event tonight, that

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happened 42 years ago on the date today.

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I want to ask our listeners for reviews on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or

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wherever you listen now that we're on YouTube with this podcast, a YouTube

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like or YouTube share would be great.

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It really helps the show grow and no one else is gonna bring

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history to you like this.

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And the History Channel certainly doesn't do it either.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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We need to bring history back to the History channel.

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We need to bring it back and, but seriously, history

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Channel, give us a call, right.

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Chip and Joanna Gaines of the History channel right here.

Jenn:

We'll do a whole series on location.

Jenn:

Yeah.

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And interview people and show you just like we do with this.

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We actually visited the

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location.

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That's right.

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Jen, tell us about what we're

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talking about tonight.

Jenn:

So this is the assassination attempt of President Ronald Reagan happened 42

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years ago today, 1981, and he had just given a speech in our nation's capital.

Jenn:

And he was walking outside.

Jenn:

And it's interesting because this Washington Hilton had made this

Jenn:

entrance for presidential speeches.

Jenn:

If you see that kind of brick area that's a walkway where you can

Jenn:

walk inside that brick area to go.

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And speak.

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So it's pretty well protected.

Jenn:

And that's where Reagan was going to give a speech to, I think union workers.

Jenn:

Yeah.

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And Reaganomics.

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Yep.

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And he had just finished giving the speech, so he was leaving and

Jenn:

coming out and it was like 2 27, like you had said, it was 2 27 and.

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He waves to some people and over where the plaque is at is

Jenn:

where the gunman was standing.

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Hinckley was

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standing.

Scott:

Yeah.

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So the picture that's shown right now, this is the picture, one of the

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pictures that I took while we were there.

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We were in DC a couple weeks ago, and so we went up there.

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It was really cold and the this Washington Hilton is still used.

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It looks almost exactly like it did, 42 years ago.

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So there's the plaque right there, you can see right there on our screen.

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And so Jen's talking over there in the better light.

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I'm over here behind the camera taking the pictures.

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And so that's the that's, I'm standing right where it happened.

Jenn:

And so you get Hinckley who fires six rounds in

Jenn:

succession and he has a revolver.

Jenn:

So you can only fire six rounds.

Jenn:

Yep.

Jenn:

And the first shot actually hits the Press Secretary Brady.

Jenn:

And we'll talk more about that because you get the Brady bill

Jenn:

that will come out of this.

Jenn:

He hits him in the head.

Jenn:

Brady goes forward it will impact Brady for the rest of his life.

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He will be in a wheelchair.

Jenn:

The second shot hits Tom Delaney.

Jenn:

. He's a police officer.

Jenn:

Police officer.

Jenn:

Okay.

Jenn:

And as he hits him in the back, he says, he yells I'm hit.

Jenn:

So it's sets the events too.

Jenn:

And, but he falls forward and now you have a clear path to the president.

Jenn:

Yeah, so he basically, Hinckley has taken out the two people that kind of

Jenn:

were in the path of President Reagan.

Jenn:

but the fourth one is going to hit.

Jenn:

The other secret servants agent, that's Tim McCarthy.

Jenn:

Yep.

Jenn:

And he's gonna hit him in the chest.

Jenn:

So he does his job.

Jenn:

So what happens is the two people go down.

Jenn:

Brady is hit, he goes down, the police officer hit in the back, he says, I'm hit.

Jenn:

I go down.

Jenn:

The fourth shot goes over their heads.

Jenn:

But Par is pushing the president into the limo.

Jenn:

Delaney turns towards the gunfire shots.

Jenn:

Yep.

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And spreads out his arms just like a secret service agent is supposed to do.

Jenn:

Yeah, he makes himself a bigger target and he gets hit right in the chest.

Jenn:

And then the fifth shot hits the limo window, but it's the sixth

Jenn:

shot that gets the president.

Jenn:

It's the sixth shot that ricochets off the parking lot, hits the back of the limo.

Jenn:

And because the limo is bulletproof, it actually ricocheted back

Jenn:

ricochets into the armpit.

Jenn:

Oh, I didn't realize that.

Jenn:

Oh,

Scott:

Ronald Reagan.

Scott:

Yeah.

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And I, and if I remember right and the thing with our video.

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There's a ton of video you guys can find a ton of videos on.

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The Reagan shooting, you could find a ton of journalists that have

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done it over the years, recently, 20 years ago, 30 years ago.

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And they do some very in depth, they actually drive the route and do,

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and, of film on the whole thing.

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So we actually use those as a little bit of research on our side.

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So there's some really good ones.

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But one of the things I think I remember him talking about, They just,

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they didn't realize he was hit right

Jenn:

now.

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They didn't realize he was hit because he, again it's a ricocheted bullet that's

Jenn:

getting him in like the back left armpit.

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So I'm doing my right, my, the left armpit.

Jenn:

His injuries were not noticed at first.

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And I actually enjoyed learning the call, like the call

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sign or the secret service call sign.

Scott:

Yes.

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That was

Jenn:

was Rawhide

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back to the White House.

Radio:

Back to the White House Rawhide is okay.

Jenn:

Raw Hyde for the president.

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And they called the White House the Crown.

Jenn:

Yeah.

Jenn:

So they get in the limo.

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The Secret Service hand shoves his hands on the president to look for anything.

Jenn:

He doesn't see any blood because it's in his back left armpit.

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And he goes, okay, let's head towards the crown.

Jenn:

So that's what you hear on the radio,

Radio:

We're going, we're going to crown

Jenn:

but then President Reagan starts to cough up blood.

Jenn:

Well,

Scott:

and the other funny thing is too, the people on the radio are so worked up.

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That some people are forget to use the call signs.

Scott:

Yes.

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About that.

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Some people say are you going to the White House?

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And they're he's like going to the crown.

Radio:

You wanna

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go to hospital or back to the White

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House?

Radio:

We're going, we're going to crown

Scott:

Yes.

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And then they pick the alternate location once he figures out

Jenn:

that he's been shot.

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So when he starts to cough up blood, the secret servant agent realizes

Jenn:

right away that there's blood in his lungs and he has to make a call.

Radio:

Roger, we wanna go to the emergency room of George Washington.

Radio:

Roger.

Radio:

Oh, George Washington.

Jenn:

Yeah.

Jenn:

And he has to And you have to say it over the radio.

Jenn:

Yeah.

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So here he is.

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Everybody who can have access to a radio, that Raw Hyde is going to George

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Washington.

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Yeah.

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And that's what right is, he says like Rawhide is hit or raw.

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Hy is going to George Washington

Jenn:

Raw Hyde is going to George Washington.

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Yeah.

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And.

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So that's the name of the hospital, George Washington University Hospital.

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So he's using the exact name and he had to really weigh national security.

Radio:

Oh, George Washington.

Radio:

Roger George Washington.

Radio:

Ambulance, I the, uh,

Jenn:

The president will walk himself into the emergency room.

Jenn:

Oh, I didn't realize that.

Jenn:

So he does make a good show and then as soon as he gets laid down

Jenn:

on the gurney and they realized this seriousness of this they don't put him

Jenn:

under until Nancy Reagan gets there.

Jenn:

Oh my gosh.

Jenn:

And says, says, Something to him and he says, I forgot to duck.

Jenn:

That's what he told.

Jenn:

I'm sorry, honey, I forgot to duck.

Scott:

Yeah, and so if you see on the, on, on the screen here, if you're

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watching the live stream, you can see this is us at the emergency room.

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This is at us, at the Washington.

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Hospital.

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So this is across the street and then up here, right?

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It's Rogan, Ronald Reagan, Institute of Emergency Medicine.

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So

Jenn:

he goes into the, he walks himself into the emergency room.

Jenn:

Yeah.

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So

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They named it after him.

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I don't know when they did that, but it was neat.

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Again, just being right there, like the George Washington, university hospital.

Jenn:

So Nancy comes in, he tells her I forgot to duck,

Jenn:

which I think is really funny.

Jenn:

But I, what I, one of the things I really love about Reagan, he

Jenn:

keeps his morale up and he keeps people around him, his morale up.

Jenn:

So before he goes in for surgery and before they put him under,

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he looks around at all this.

Jenn:

The medical staff and the surgeon, and he says, I hope you're all Republicans.

Jenn:

Yeah, I know you, you love that story.

Jenn:

I love that story.

Jenn:

And because the head surgeon, who's actually a Democrat Yeah.

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Says Mr.

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President, we're all republicans today.

Jenn:

Yeah.

Jenn:

I love that a democrat would say that to him to put his mind at

Scott:

ease.

Scott:

And that's a, and it's.

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I love it because it's so stereotypical of Reagan too.

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That's what he was known for.

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We were doing our research on Reagan.

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We were watching videos and they talked about all the time, like how he

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would crack jokes during his speech.

Reagan:

Mr.

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Speaker, Mr.

Reagan:

President, distinguished members of the Congress, honored

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guests and fellow citizens.

Reagan:

Today marks my first State of the Union address to you, a constitutional

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duty as old as our republic itself.

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President Washington began this tradition in 17.

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After reminding the nation that the destiny of self-government

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and the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty is finally staked

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on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

Reagan:

For our friends in the press who plays a high premium on accuracy.

Reagan:

Let me say, I did not actually hear George Washington say that.

Scott:

Like un unlike a lot of his predecessors, before him.

Scott:

Yes.

Scott:

And So even in that time, right?

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He's getting ready to go under for surgery.

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He's cracking jokes.

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So it just really encapsulates him in his persona right then and there.

Jenn:

Yes.

Jenn:

And so he will go under surgery.

Jenn:

They will find the bullet.

Jenn:

They will patch 'em up.

Jenn:

We read that the Oscars were supposed to air that night, so

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they delay the Oscars for one night because the president had actually

Jenn:

recorded a message for the Oscars.

Johnny Carson:

Thank

Johnny Carson:

you very much.

Johnny Carson:

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure that all of you here, and most of you watching

Johnny Carson:

tonight, understand why we had delayed this program for 24 hours because of

Johnny Carson:

the incredible events of yesterday.

Johnny Carson:

That old adage, the show must go on, seemed relatively unimportant.

Johnny Carson:

The Academy, ABC Television, and all of us connected with the show.

Johnny Carson:

Felt because of the uncertain outcome.

Johnny Carson:

As of this time yesterday, it would've been inappropriate to stage a celebration,

Johnny Carson:

but the news today is very good.

Johnny Carson:

As you know, the president is in excellent condition.

Johnny Carson:

At last reports, he's been conducting

crowd:

business

Reagan:

and he's, uh,

Johnny Carson:

and he happens to be in very good spirits.

Johnny Carson:

Uh, after all, you must remember, this is a man who, y.

Johnny Carson:

While he was in the hospital, unable to speak, wrote on a sheet

Johnny Carson:

of paper, all things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia.

Johnny Carson:

So tonight the show does go on.

Johnny Carson:

Now, two weeks ago, president Reagan videotaped an opening

Johnny Carson:

greeting for this occasion.

Johnny Carson:

We were in contact with the White House about two hours ago, and it

Johnny Carson:

was the President's express wishes that we use for that introduction.

Johnny Carson:

And I might add, uh, you might like to know that he also asked

Johnny Carson:

for a television set in his room so he could view this program.

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I was, uh,

Johnny Carson:

actually the president was in such good form today.

Johnny Carson:

I was very tempted to call him and ask him if he had any more of

Johnny Carson:

those one liners that I could use.

Johnny Carson:

So it is especially pleasing tonight, ladies and gentlemen, to be able to

Johnny Carson:

say, Here is the President of the United

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States

Reagan:

to my fellow Americans eagerly awaiting the presentation

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of the 53rd Annual Academy Awards.

Reagan:

It's surely no state's secret that Nancy and I share your interest in

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the results of this year's balloting.

Reagan:

We're not alone.

Reagan:

The miracle of American technology links us with millions of movie goers around.

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It's the motion picture that shows us all, not only how we look and sound,

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but more important how we feel when it achieves its most noble intent.

Reagan:

Film reveals that people everywhere share common dreams and emotions.

Reagan:

Tonight, I applaud all who create, make, distribute, exhibit and attend movies.

Reagan:

I salute the academy for the influence its work has on the

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world's most enduring art form.

Reagan:

Film is forever.

Reagan:

I've been trapped in some film forever myself and as a

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former member of the academy.

Reagan:

I ask you now to join Nancy and me in enjoying this year's ceremonies.

Jenn:

The one thing that was scheduled that didn't get

Jenn:

canceled was the NCAA basketball.

Jenn:

Championship was playing that night.

Jenn:

That same night.

Jenn:

That same night.

Jenn:

Oh, wow.

Jenn:

And they didn't delay that, but they did have a moment

Jenn:

of silence for the president.

Jenn:

Wow.

Jenn:

He's only there for 11 days and he, again, the this is an interesting

Jenn:

time in the country too because things are happening fast, right?

Jenn:

This is this assassination attempt.

Jenn:

President's shot, president's going in for surgery, so people

Jenn:

are like, Who's in charge?

Jenn:

George Bush is hearing about this in the air.

Jenn:

He's on Air Force two.

Jenn:

So he is hearing about this in the air, and this is when you get the speaker

Jenn:

of House who makes that statement?

Jenn:

I'm in control.

Alexander Haig:

And there are.

Alexander Haig:

Absolutely no alert measures that are necessary at this time or contemplate.

Alexander Haig:

Uh, now if you have some questions, I'd be happy to take them.

Alexander Haig:

Who's making the decision?

Alexander Haig:

Constitutionally gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president,

Alexander Haig:

and the Secretary of State in that order, and should the president decide

Alexander Haig:

he wants to transfer the helm to the vice president, he, he will do so.

Alexander Haig:

As of now, I am in control here in the White House, pending return

Alexander Haig:

of the vice president and in, in close touch with him, if something

Alexander Haig:

came up, I would check with him.

Alexander Haig:

Of course.

Alexander Haig:

. Jenn: And he'll say, I'm in control.

Alexander Haig:

And people go, what?

Alexander Haig:

That's not how it works.

Alexander Haig:

Speaker of the house is third in line.

Alexander Haig:

So he says, I'm in control.

Alexander Haig:

Yeah.

Alexander Haig:

And so that's too funny.

Alexander Haig:

Bush is like in the air.

Alexander Haig:

He's what?

Alexander Haig:

What?

Alexander Haig:

I still exist, say hello.

Alexander Haig:

So that happens.

Alexander Haig:

But another thing that's happening in 81 at the time is news coverage.

Scott:

Yeah.

Scott:

It was so this recording the early end of that CNN type

Jenn:

era.

Jenn:

Yeah.

Jenn:

Yeah.

Jenn:

C this is CNN's first year.

Jenn:

And so N B C was there, a, B, C was there.

Jenn:

That's where you're getting the cov, the very good angle of everything

Jenn:

that's happening and CNN starts to play.

Jenn:

Over and over again.

Jenn:

And CNN runs it for full 24 hours with updates as they go.

Jenn:

And some of the things they get wrong is they get wrong that Brady was killed.

Jenn:

And it takes a while before they realize that Brady was not killed.

Jenn:

So that's one of the first things they do report.

Jenn:

But what happens is it really cements CNN as being a place to go for very.

Jenn:

To date.

Jenn:

Yeah.

Jenn:

And

Scott:

just kind of minute by minute, 24 hour news.

Scott:

Yes.

Scott:

If

Jenn:

you wanna go for good coverage actual up to date coverage.

Jenn:

Yeah.

Jenn:

The CNN was the place to go that, like I said, they only been

Jenn:

around for a year, but doing this

Scott:

I'm sure that was, they were like the place.

Scott:

Yes.

Scott:

Because every oth all the other.

Scott:

Typical networks would take breaks.

Scott:

They would go to their other programming and this, that and the other.

Scott:

And this is, this event happens.

Scott:

It was laid their foundation of yes, this is what we do.

Jenn:

Now when we talk.

Jenn:

Hinckley the shooter.

Jenn:

A lot of people, John Hinckley Jr.

Jenn:

Who is the one who fires, has gone at the president and eventually will kill.

Jenn:

Brady he says he does it to get the attention of Jodi Foster.

Jenn:

He had seen Jodi Foster a taxi driver, and he was very enamored with her.

Jenn:

And so he thought if he did this, he could bring attention to himself.

Jenn:

Jodi Foster in return has only ever spoken about this four

Scott:

times.

Scott:

Yeah.

Scott:

I thought this was really, I thought this was interesting, and I, and

Scott:

when you said that to me, I was.

Scott:

I don't blame that.

Scott:

I

Jenn:

don't blame her.

Jodi Foster:

I don't wanna jeopardize the prosecution

Jodi Foster:

without, without getting specific.

Jodi Foster:

Was he threatening amorous?

Jodi Foster:

What was he like?

Jodi Foster:

I'm not allowed to say, um, I, I believe that it's, you know, that

Jodi Foster:

the, the letters were assumed to have been, you know, loved type lips.

Jodi Foster:

When did you first realize the connection between the Hinckley and the letters

Jodi Foster:

and the Hinckley who shot the president?

Jodi Foster:

Um, well, how many Hinckley do you know?

Jenn:

Yeah.

Jenn:

She doesn't wanna give attention to him.

Jenn:

Yeah.

Jenn:

She doesn't want him to get what he wanted from her.

Jenn:

So she spoke about it immediately after she did an op-ed and wrote about

Jenn:

it, and she spoke about it to others.

Jenn:

Times and interviews.

Jenn:

She's asked about it and she commented on it.

Jenn:

She will go out of her way to cancel interviews or walk out of

Jenn:

interviews if they ask her about this.

Jenn:

And she has told them that she's not gonna speak on it.

Jenn:

Yeah.

Jenn:

To the point, like she doesn't wanna give it power.

Jenn:

Sure.

Jenn:

She doesn't wanna give Hinckley

Scott:

power.

Scott:

Yeah.

Scott:

I can understand that.

Scott:

Let's, so what you know, for obvious.

Scott:

Hinckley was captured.

Scott:

I I'll be perfectly honest, I don't actually know what

Scott:

ended up happening to him.

Scott:

I know he was convicted, pled insanity plan,

Jenn:

insanity, which is of course he's insane.

Jenn:

I wanna be like, it's kinda, kinda obvious.

Jenn:

You're insane.

Jenn:

But because no one I think died.

Jenn:

So I think at the time, no one was killed.

Jenn:

Right when it happened.

Jenn:

Right when it happened.

Scott:

So I even though Brady, passed away later,

Jenn:

later, much later, okay.

Jenn:

Even though nobody was killed, he could plead insanity.

Jenn:

He was put in, he was institutionalized.

Jenn:

He was just recently released.

Jenn:

Oh, really?

Jenn:

And it's because the president is dead.

Jenn:

Yeah.

Jenn:

Now Reagan is dead and Brady, so they, and I think he's very

Jenn:

limited in where he can go and he's very watched and monitored, but

Scott:

yes, he's, I'm surprised.

Scott:

I don't think I even realized that.

Jenn:

I know it's, it is interest.

Jenn:

But yeah, James Brady will never recover from this.

Jenn:

He's disabled.

Jenn:

He will maintain.

Jenn:

Press Secretary for the rest of the year.

Jenn:

Yeah.

Jenn:

But it's more of a positional Yeah.

Jenn:

Title.

Jenn:

Sure.

Jenn:

Because he will be in a wheelchair and it will impact his speech.

Jenn:

And then he passes away in of August of 2014.

Jenn:

Yeah.

Jenn:

And I, like I said, the medical examiner will rule it a homicide because he will

Jenn:

succumb to the injuries that he received from that gunshot wound to the head.

Jenn:

Tim McCarthy is still alive, the secret servant that Adrian got shot in the chest.

Jenn:

Oh wow.

Jenn:

Had three children afterwards.

Jenn:

And the police officer Tom Delaney is also still.

Jenn:

Who was shot in the back?

Jenn:

One thing that I thought was interesting is the President's

Jenn:

approval rating goes up after

Scott:

this.

Scott:

Yeah.

Scott:

I'm not, that's not super surprising.

Scott:

People rally around.

Scott:

Yeah.

Scott:

You A horrible event like that.

Scott:

People, it doesn't matter what your, if you disagree with

Scott:

Reaganomics at the time or not.

Scott:

People are gonna rally around something that's, obviously Hey,

Scott:

you can't be shooting the president.

Jenn:

Yeah.

Jenn:

And I think people, again, Reagan, he's such a good.

Jenn:

Communicator.

Jenn:

Yeah.

Jenn:

And so he's so good with people and putting them at ease and building morale.

Jenn:

Yep.

Jenn:

That I think people saw, just the way he handled the whole thing.

Jenn:

I think when he comes out of surgery, he asks, does anyone know

Jenn:

what the shooter's beef was like?

Jenn:

He was very good on off the cuff.

Jenn:

He delivers a line well, and he's a actor, right?

Jenn:

So when you think about it, like he was very good at giving speeches.

Jenn:

Yeah.

Jenn:

He was very good at making the country feel at ease.

Jenn:

I remember when the Challenger disaster happens and he speaks to America,

Reagan:

Ladies and gentlemen, I'd plan to speak to you tonight to

Reagan:

report in the State of the Union, but the events of earlier today

Reagan:

have led me to change those plans.

Reagan:

Today is a day from mourning and remembering.

Reagan:

Nancy and I are pain to the core, but the tragedy of the shuttle challenger,

Reagan:

we know we share this pain with all of the people of our country.

Reagan:

This is truly a national loss.

Jenn:

He was just one of those great deliver.

Jenn:

Of, an orator.

Jenn:

Yeah.

Jenn:

Basically.

Jenn:

What another thing that I thought was interesting is the Dow Jones

Jenn:

dips the next day, but it pops right back up after he comes outta surgery.

Scott:

Oh, interesting.

Scott:

So just of a little market uncertainty.

Jenn:

And I don't think there's been a assassination

Jenn:

attempt on the president since.

Jenn:

Not that I am aware of.

Jenn:

Yeah.

Jenn:

Not that, not that the public is aware of.

Jenn:

But there hasn't been something that was so close.

Jenn:

Yeah.

Jenn:

And the president actually got bodily harmed from.

Jenn:

Yeah, so it was very, it was a neat story to do.

Scott:

But it was super fun and we wanted to, we made the extra effort

Scott:

tonight to come on a little bit later and do this on the anniversary, even

Scott:

though we haven't made the video.

Scott:

So I know even less than I normally would because normally I do all my

Scott:

learning when I'm editing those videos.

Scott:

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