President Reagan Shot assassination attempt Part 2

[PalmTreeAngel]

It's amazing that, even in that time when news didn't travel nearly as fast as it does today, it sure seems like it took an awful long time before they realized that President Reagan HAD been shot, yet they were getting other updates quickly. Although I guess that could have just been the WH trying to keep it under wraps until his condition was known so as not to spread panic among the public-especially since JFK had been killed. Refreshing though to hear "good" reporters (& no 'spin')!

[mlc2005]

Even though I wasn't crazy about some of his politics, can you even imagine how awful a tragedy it would have been if that motherfucker had killed the President??? This was just his 2nd year in office; no "tear down that wall," no challenger explosion speech. It's scary how easy it almost was for some pathetic nut case to kill our leader. I hope Brinkley NEVER gets out.

[PalmTreeAngel]

@mlc2005 Actually this was just over 2 months after Reagan became POTUS (not 2nd year). I'll never forget that day, even though I was just a kid. My folks were glued to the tv that whole night. Hinkley has filed a motion to be released from the mental facility he's been in ever since he was found "not guilty by reason of insanity". The Secret Svc has been tailing him as he's out on his "free time" & testified that he researches assassinations/attempts of POTUS's-incl his against Reagan-NOT good!

[Woody615]

Notice at 8:44 that CNN was so new that they spelled it out "Cable News Network" in just plain text not even a logo.

[iguire]

Wow This brings back memories. Main stream media still had a bit of integrity at this time as well. They would actually try and report facts and not blow shit all out of proportion.

[Kellyannk308]

Come of think that typerwriter remind me when I practice in high school ROFL back in early 1980s

[luridplanet]

No matter how you spin the facts, the Hinkley and Bush families knew each other well

[njdevs]

This is when News anchors were real. Not just some news readers,

[civil42806]

Love the typewriter, seems like a long time ago

[gaguy1967]

where is part 3

[UrielDagda]

Anybody else hear somebody say "you motherfucker!" in the replay as they're tackling Hinckley?

[movieman175]

when i'm watching this i just wanna scream "HE WAS SHOT STOP SAYING HE HAS NOT BEEN HURT YOU FUCKING RETARDS!" lol :p

[ChristopherSaindon]

I've always been in complete agreement with the DC officer's comment around 5:32 :-) Later clips of this have this audio eliminated -- I prefer it the way it is. The lady yelling was agent Parr's wife..who ran right up to the scene and honestly REALLY endangered herself. I understand of course she didn't care -- she wanted her husband. This was a horrible day..

[bigboy10131969]

Who is the black news anchor...I remember the face, but can't recall the name

[matthewdiersen]

@bigboy10131969, Bernard King. He later ended up on CNN.

[altfactor]

@matthewdiersen I thought the name was Bernard Shaw.

[misanthropy520]

@matthewdiersen Bernard Shaw

[marktoll]

That's Roger Mudd, not David Brinkley.

[JoeGutfeld]

I can't believe it's been 30 years already.

[headcase01]

David Brinkley and a monster typewriter. Gotta love the good old days.

[echomedia]

@headcase01 Not Brinkley, it's Roger Mudd

[rvhawkeye]

Hinckley piece of shit

[SecretService80]

6:11 That is a Smith & Wesson Model 66, the stainless model of the Smith & Wesson Model 19, which was the Secret Service's weapon of choice in 1981. Hinckley's gun was a .22 Rohm RG-14 snub-nose. That means the gun next to Brady is a Law Enforcement officer's, likely a Secret Service agent. What kind of agent (or police officer, for that matter), leaves their sidearm on the ground during an assassination attempt? That's VERY risky and dangerous...even Sam Donaldson knows that at 6:21.

[covewatcher]

@SecretService80 Did you consider the fact that the weapon could belong to the police officer who is down? He may have had time to draw before being shot. His position in such close proximity to James Brady and Hinkley could lead one to surmise that is a very plausible explanation for the weapon being in that location.

[SecretService80]

@covewatcher I suppose it could have been, I just find it strange because it is the same weapon issued to Secret Service agents in 1981. I don't think it's Mr. McCarthy's. You may be right about it being Officer Delehanty's.

[ChristopherSaindon]

@SecretService80 You're 100% right -- if you've ever seen the LA bank robbery shootout with those two goons against the LAPD..the 2nd guy surrenders at the hood of a car and one of the officers lays an automatic weapon on the hood. A supervisor comes right in and swipes it away. That's likely not Delehanty's gun as he was hit SO fast as were Brady and Mccarthy. Parr seems to have sensed something was not right maybe a half second before the shots. A flinch or anything -- these guys pick it up.

[gibby100]

lol, how many DC cops does it take to open a police car door before they give up?

[Cromag99]

@gibby100 Eight I believe...

[altfactor]

Although Edwin Newman and Roger Mudd were solid in anchoring NBC's coverage, NBC receieved criticism for not having John Chancellor anchor their coverage of the Reagan shooting.

[JillR95]

Me too. I admit, I'm kind of fascinated with news clips about a situation like this where none of the commentators know anything for sure yet. (I do still feel badly for the people involved and their friends/relatives though)

[rapingurchurches]

sam donaldson needed  a new hairpiece

[rapingurchurches]

thank God they didnt get Goverment Health care !

[datzfast]

@rapingurchurches oh they get the very best of care. you and i get the plug pulled out of the wall because electric cost money.

[LT1HILLINGHOE]

I never noticed before, but that guy smoking at 9:05 acted like nothing was going on. Doesn't that look kinda odd? He didn't seem to be concerned at all about the 4 men who had just gotten SHOT.

[matt605]

@LT1HILLINGHOE Yeah I saw the guy smoking a cigarette after the shooting, but compared to all the other "chiefs" present on the scene, he seems to be doing his job.

[calchick82]

Since the newscasts were so lax about telling the public till much later that Reagan had indeed been shot(and, as we now know, could have actually died), imagine how embarrassing it would have been for the newscasters if they had had to go from reporting that the President was NOT shot to, yes, not only had the President been shot, but he was now dead. With the Internet and all today, I don't believe that anything like that(hope not)will happen again, where the media is not on top of story ASAP.

[PDeCaporale]

@calchick82 theres always so much confusion in a situation like that though, i mean just look at 9/11 and all the misinformation they were reporting then...its just tough they do the best they can you know...plus obviously the president would want to keep quiet that he had suffered a gunshot wound so information would be kept tight

[calchick82]

@PDeCaporale Yeah, you're right...I just am glad the situation never came up where the President had died, and we were left shaking our heads and saying, "But they reassured us he was ok!" I suppose in any big news event like that, there IS a certain amount of misinformation. I also suppose that nowadays, the Internet is both a help and a hindrance as far as getting news info out. May be lightning-fast now, as opposed to back in '81 when Reagan was shot, but more chance for rumors to spread.

[flashfast2000]

Dig Sam's Spock cut!

[PDeCaporale]

"and his familiar balding head....which is now hurt..." touche

[calchick82]

@PDeCaporale Geez, can't believe that was said! Wonder if he regretted saying it as soon as the words came out of his mouth, lol!

[radiodj1520]

In This Video Clip, Contains Coverage Of The Shooting Of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, From CBS News, NBC News, ABC News, And CNN, On March 30, 1981.

[gopconservative78]

Alexander Haig....yes I'm the President and you will submit to my rule.....what a dolt!

[efan64]

At 5:35 you can gear a cop call Hinckley "You Motherfucker!" LOL

[gotch09]

@efan64 Well you can't accuse the officer of being a liar.

[efan64]

@gotch09

No, i found it hilarious

[Savetheturtles80]

@efan64 yeah, you totally can!

[SecretService80]

Frank Reynolds knows what an Uzi is!?

[sycamorenick]

Who is the anchor speaking at around 3:00 minutes? It sounds like Dan Rather, but the voice sounds older than his at that point.

[MegaObserver1]

@sycamorenick It is Dan Rather

[beecee151]

Great clips! Check out Sam Donaldson's wig/ faux hair. So funny. Of course he has a better one today and rarely speaks.

Sorry for Brady, the officer and the president., and Jodie Foster. Im sort of a fan of these videos because I broke my left wrist about a half hour playing Capture the flag in 4th grade. The radio was so loud and I went to a triage center before the orthopedic surgean...All of the speakers and radios were on. After the morphine/cast I watched it on TV

[JillR95]

@beecee151 I was in 3rd grade. Nothing happened to me that day, but I think that's the first event like that that I can remember.

[beecee151]

@JillR95 very memorable....I guess your a year younger... a wrist less broken and I have always been a police/FBI/CIA/SWAT/Secret Service fan. Not a Conspiracy guy, but how heroic many of these folks are in all branches....I know its not the best time to talk about things like this but ever since that day and the footage of how they reacted made me fascinated. Huge Reagan fan : click on my favs. and see. Some of the best stuff ever. Michael Reagan, to ron jr. " an ambarrassment "

[ChristopherSaindon]

The Secret Service Agent that was wounded seriously is the Chief of Police of a suburb of Chicago (Orland Park) now I believe. That clip is amazing..how he squared up and took that bullet. And I don't hold the "animated language" the officer used against him :-) I would have said it the same way; that punk just shot at my President. It looked like that big cameraman jumped in there too which was awesome..