"attempted assassination of him in 1981. On March 30 of that year, President Reagan and three others were shot by troubled 25-year old John Hinckley, Jr as they left the Washington Hilton hotel. Nancy was alerted and arrived at George Washington University Hospital, where the President was hospitalized. She recalled having seen ""emergency rooms before, but I had never seen one like this – with my husband in it."" She was escorted into a waiting room, and when granted access to see her husband, he quipped to her, ""Honey, I forgot to duck"", borrowing the defeated boxer Jack Dempsey's jest"
"a large estate along the Titirau River near Fortrose. On 16 June 1882, Sclater went to shoot ducks on the river, in the company of Miss Josephine Rich, who also lived on the estate of Mr. Vernon. Around noon she departed to make her way back to the house, with Sclater telling her he would follow her home later. The banks of the river were covered in thick undergrowth, and while making his way through it, his breech-loaded gun caught a twig, causing the gun to discharge. The resulting shot hit him in the forehead toward his left eye, the"
"Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C., as they were leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel. Hinckley's motivation for the attack was to impress actress Jodie Foster, who had played the role of a child prostitute in the 1976 film ""Taxi Driver"". After seeing the film, Hinckley had developed an obsession with Foster. Reagan was struck by a single bullet that broke a rib, punctured a lung, and caused serious internal bleeding, but he recovered quickly. No formal"
"Lucky McDaniel Bobby Lamar ""Lucky"" McDaniel (1925–1986) was a marksmanship instructor who taught what he called ""instinct shooting"" to bird hunters and peace officers off and on from 1953 until 1982, using a Daisy lever-action BB gun without sights as his basic training aid. While his shooting technique is often categorized as point shooting, the key characteristic of his technique is a split-second point-and-shoot move. He taught approximately 100,000 people, mostly bird hunters and law enforcement officers, his method of shooting. The bird hunters included ex-President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Henry Ford II, John Wayne, Audie Murphy, and key executives of"
"of known Zodiac victim Darlene Ferrin and a man who closely resembles the composite sketch, formed based on eyewitnesses' descriptions, of the Zodiac Killer. Police believe the photo was taken in San Francisco in the middle of 1966 or 1967. Former California Highway Patrol officer Lyndon Lafferty said the Zodiac killer was a 91-year-old Solano County, California man whom he called by the pseudonym ""George Russell Tucker"". Using a group of retired law enforcement officers called the Mandamus Seven, Lafferty discovered ""Tucker"" and a cover-up for why he was not pursued. ""Tucker"" died in February 2012 and was not named"
"both he and the president, along with Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy and District of Columbia police officer Thomas Delehanty, were shot on March 30, 1981, during an assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr., Brady was shot in the head and suffered a serious wound that left him partially paralyzed for life. John Hinckley Jr. bought the .22 caliber Röhm RG-14 revolver used in the shooting at a Dallas, Texas, pawn shop on October 13, 1980. In a purchase application that he filled out before taking possession of the revolver, he provided a false home address on the form and"
"Army and worked as a recruiter and made public relations appearances. When he began missing appointments and speaking engagements, he was sent for medical evaluation, at which he was diagnosed with a depression caused by Post Vietnam adjustment problems, often referred to now as PTSD. Just after 11:30 p.m. on April 29, 1971, Johnson was shot upon entry of an armed robbery attempt within an Open Pantry Market convenience store about a mile from his home, in Detroit. Although wounded in the left biceps during the altercation, the store owner erroneously opened fire with a .38 caliber handgun assuming Johnson"
"later on Friday, April 10, 1981, and was quoted as saying, ""I feel good . . . I'm ready to go."" Since the bullet had ricocheted off his spinal cord after striking his neck, he suffered permanent nerve damage to his left arm. Delahanty was cited for heroism for his valiant effort to protect the President, and was ultimately forced to retire from the Metropolitan Police Department due to his disability. Delahanty later sued Hinckley, Hinckley's psychiatrist, and the gun manufacturer (Röhm (RG)). His argument against the manufacturer, that small, cheap guns have no purpose except for crime, and thus"
"Irish republican Ronnie Bunting and his friend Noel Lyttle at Bunting's Ballymurphy home on 15 October 1980. However the attacks came to an end in 1981, following an ambush by the Parachute Regiment after a failed attempt by the UFF on the lives of Bernadette McAliskey and her husband, Michael, during which the three-man unit (including Ray Smallwoods who acted as the getaway driver) were captured and later imprisoned. McAliskey, who was shot seven times in front of her children at her home in Coalisland, County Tyrone on 16 January 1981 survived the attack, as did her husband who was"
"People"", a humorous allusion to the self-help classic ""How to Win Friends and Influence People"". President Obama also joked about the incident in his final White House Correspondents' Association Dinner as President, in 2016, when he thanked his Vice President Joe Biden ""for not shooting anybody in the face"". For years afterwards, editorial cartoons and comedians continued to crack jokes about the incident. Cheney was criticized for his handling of the matter. According to polls on February 27, 2006, two weeks after the accident, Dick Cheney's approval rating had dropped 5 percentage points to 18%. Dick Cheney hunting incident On"
"for Columbine"" was dedicated to Wilcox's memory. Just before 11:30a.m. on January 10, 2001, 40-year-old Scott Harlan Thorpe walked into the Nevada County Department of Behavioral Health in Nevada City, California. Thorpe walked up to the first-floor reception counter armed with a semi-automatic pistol. Thorpe was a client of the outpatient mental health clinic and suffered with paranoia and agoraphobia. At the time, he was seeking treatment at the clinic for help with his illnesses and was undergoing monthly mental health counseling for his agoraphobia. Unhappy with the care he had been receiving, an enraged Thorpe fired through a glass"
"""two basic rules of hunting safety"": he failed to ensure that he had a clear shot before firing, and fired without being able to see blue sky beneath his target. The paper also reported that Cheney has still neither publicly nor privately apologized to Whittington for the shooting. Harry Whittington Harry M. Whittington (born March 3, 1927) is an American lawyer, real estate investor, and political figure from Austin, Texas who received international media attention on February 11, 2006, when he was shot by Vice President Dick Cheney while hunting quail with two women on a ranch in Kenedy County,"
"As of 2018, this incident ranked as the sixth-deadliest shooting in the U.S. by a single shooter. On October 16, 1991, 35-year-old George Hennard, an unemployed man who had been in the Merchant Marine, drove a Ford Ranger pickup truck through the plate-glass front window of a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas. Hennard yelled, ""All women of Killeen and Belton are vipers! This is what you've done to me and my family! This is what Bell County did to me... this is payback day!"" He then opened fire on the patrons and staff with both a 9mm Glock 17 pistol"
"did not improve. He began to target the newly elected president Ronald Reagan in 1981. To this purpose, he collected material on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Hinckley wrote to Foster just before his attempt on Reagan's life: On March 30, 1981, at 2:27 p.m. local time, Hinckley shot a .22 caliber Röhm RG-14 revolver six times at Reagan as he left the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., after the president addressed an AFL–CIO conference. Hinckley wounded police officer Thomas Delahanty and Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy, and critically wounded press secretary James Brady. Hinckley did not hit Reagan"
"John Hinckley Jr. John Warnock Hinckley Jr. (born May 29, 1955) is an American man who, on March 30, 1981, attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan in Washington, D.C. He wounded Reagan with a bullet that ricocheted and hit him in the chest. He also wounded police officer Thomas Delahanty and Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy, and critically wounded Press Secretary James Brady, who died 33 years later as a result of the attack. Reported to have been driven by an obsessive fixation on teen actress Jodie Foster, Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity and remained"
"Thomas Delahanty Thomas K. Delahanty (born c. 1935) is a former District of Columbia policeman who was wounded during the assassination attempt on U.S. President Ronald Reagan on Monday, March 30, 1981, in Washington, D.C. President Reagan, White House Press Secretary James Brady, and Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy were also wounded in the crossfire. Delahanty was shot in the neck by the second of John Hinckley, Jr.'s six bullets, and he fell to the ground next to Brady who was shot in the head and seriously wounded. Delahanty was taken to Washington Hospital Center and sent home eleven days"
"the United States. At 7:40 a.m. on January 8, 1947, Andrew ""Andy"" Hintz, hiring boss on Pier Fifty-One, was shot six times on the stairs just outside his apartment when leaving for work. Surviving the attack, however, he was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital where he drifted in and out of consciousness for three weeks before his death on January 29. Before having been taken to the hospital, he told his wife that he had been shot by John Dunn. Dunn was arrested immediately and held as a material witness. On January 11, Hintz identified Dunn, Andy Sheridan and another"
"pinned on Wilkerson's chest over his heart. Wilkerson yelled, ""[A]im for my heart, Marshal!"" At approximately noon on May 16, 1879, the marshal signaled the men who were concealed in a shed to shoot. When Wilkerson heard the end of the count, he stiffened up in the chair, unwittingly moving the target. The bullets missed Wilkerson's heart, one of them shattering his arm and the rest hitting his torso. He leapt off the chair and screamed, ""Oh, my God! My God! They've missed it!"" Four doctors rushed to Wilkerson, who was struggling and gasping on the ground. Officials were concerned"
"(third) shot was wild. It didn't hit anybody. I don't think it could have hit anybody. But it was a frightening thing to me because here was one shot that hit him, obviously; here was another shot that destroyed his head, and what was the reason for that third shot? That third shot frightened me more than the other two, and I grabbed the boy and threw him on the ground because I didn't know if we were going to have a 'shoot-'em-up' in this area."" Charles Brehm Charles F. Brehm (January 14, 1925 – August 11, 1996) was a"
"a bullet fired by Charles Whitman. In a 2006 interview with ""Texas Monthly"", Heard recalled, ""Just before I reached the curb, I was shot down. I'd forgotten my Marine training; I hadn't zigzagged."" He continued to grant interviews on the anniversary of the shooting, but attempted to distance his professional and personal life from the tragedy. According to his wife, Betsy Heard, ""He lived his whole life hoping to get that out of the first paragraph of his obituary."" Heard eventually left the ""Associated Press"", but continued to work in journalism and public relations. He worked as a press secretary"
"down. I opened the door with one hand and was firing with the other. ...I don't know how I survived with all those shots fired."" He also added, ""I'm not a hero, folks."" Minutes after the shooting, WMBB uploaded the video to YouTube and other sites, where it received more than 1,000,000 views in less than a week. Clay Allen Duke (November 24, 1954 – December 14, 2010) was a 56-year-old unemployed Floridian who was apparently disgruntled over the firing of his wife by the school board. He was described by the ""Associated Press"" the day after the shootings as"
"identified himself as an FBI agent. According to Oliver, she handed over the camera because the man was an authority figure and because she feared being caught in possession of marijuana. Babushka Lady The Babushka Lady is an unknown woman present during the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy who might have photographed the events that occurred in Dallas's Dealey Plaza at the time President John F. Kennedy was shot. Her nickname arose from the headscarf she wore, which was similar to scarves worn by elderly Russian women (бабушка – ""babushka"" – literally means ""grandmother"" or ""old woman"" in"
"a heart attack on December 18, 1913, and is buried in Spur, Texas. John Higgins (gunman) John Pinckney Calhoun Higgins, better known as ""Pink"" Higgins (March 28, 1851 – December 18, 1913), was a gunman and cowboy of the Old West. He is known to have killed 14 men in his lifetime. John Higgins was born in Macon, Georgia. He acquired the nickname ""Pink"" at an early age, due to his first middle name. His mother and father moved from Georgia to Texas shortly after he was born, specifically to Lampasas County. Higgins began taking part in cattle drives north"
"James William Holmes James William Holmes (December 14, 1956 – August 3, 1994) was executed at the age of 37 for the March 25, 1981 murder of Donald Lehman. Darryl Richley and Hoyt Clines were also executed on the same day for the murder of Lehman. Donald Lehman, his wife Virginia, and their daughter Vicki were at their home when four men wearing ski masks rang the doorbell and forced their way inside. Lehman was shot three times and severely beaten with a motorcycle drive chain in front of his family. More than $1,000 and several guns were stolen, according"
"30, 1981, during live news coverage of the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. Early reports received by his newsroom had indicated that press secretary James Brady and others had been shot, but that Reagan was uninjured. He became upset when a report arrived indicating that Reagan had been struck and at one point can be heard shouting at an individual off-screen to ""speak up"" as more information arrived. Later, Brady, a close friend of Reynolds, was erroneously reported by all three networks as having died from the head wound he suffered in the incident. Upon learning that the information"
"life), while ""Karl Hess: Toward Liberty"" tells a transparently ""subjective"" story, presenting the point of view of one man who experienced American politics from both the inside and out. In 1981, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' (AMPAS) AMPAS 53rd award ceremony was delayed, 53rd Academy Awardsalmost cancelled, when President Ronald Reagan was shot on the day of the scheduled event. The following day, the Academy Awards took place with the President addressing the audience via a television remote link-up from his hospital bed. Receiving the award from actors Richard Chamberlain and Lesley-Anne Down, Ladue and Halle' thanked"
"fit: ""It sounded so strange when people called me Joanne. It really had nothing to do with me. I didn’t feel like no Joanne, or no negro, or no amerikan. I felt like an African woman"". On April 6, 1971, Shakur was shot in the stomach during a struggle with a guest at the Statler Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. According to police, Shakur knocked on the door of a guest's room, asked ""Is there a party going on here?"" then displayed a revolver and demanded money. In 1987, Shakur confirmed to a journalist that there was a drug connection"
"1881, Deputy U.S. Marshal Virgil Earp was shot through the calf and Assistant Deputy U.S. Marshal Morgan Earp was shot across both shoulder blades. Doc Holliday was grazed by a bullet. Goodfellow treated both Earps' wounds. Cowboy Billy Clanton, who had been mortally wounded in the shootout, asked someone to remove his boots before he died; Goodfellow was present and obliged. After the gunfight, Ike Clanton filed murder charges against the Earps and Doc Holliday. Goodfellow reviewed Dr. H.M. Mathew's autopsy reports on the three outlaw Cowboys the Earps and Holiday had killed: Billy Clanton and brothers Tom and Frank"
"actions, Clinton was attempting to avoid focus on the ongoing Gennifer Flowers sex scandal. Ricky Ray Rector Ricky Ray Rector (January 12, 1950 – January 24, 1992) was executed for the 1981 murder of police officer Robert Martin in Conway, Arkansas. After killing a man in a restaurant, he at first agreed to turn himself in to authorities, but instead shot the police officer who had negotiated his surrender in the back. He then shot himself in the head in a suicide attempt. The attempt effectively resulted in a lobotomy. A 1991 request for a writ of certiorari to the"
"would end."" In April 1981, Eroy Brown, a prisoner who had been convicted of armed robbery and burglary, drowned Wallace Pack, the warden, and shot Billy Moore, the unit's farm manager, during a struggle for Pack's gun. Brown said that they were planning to kill him since he was going to expose a prison theft scheme. Thirty-five of thirty-six jurors voted in Brown's favor. After a prisoner named Rodney Hulin fatally injured himself at the Clemens Unit, he was transferred to the Hospital Galveston Unit and then the Ellis Unit. Hulin died in the Ellis Unit in 1997. In November"
"69 days. On March 30th, 1981, Reagan visits the Washington Hilton Hotel for an AFL-CIO speech. At first, Jim is unsure if he would be attending due to low press, but after finding out the president will not be answering his own questions, he decides to attend the event. The president leaves the hotel after the speech, along with his guards and staff, including Brady. Waiting outside the hotel in the press area is John Hinckley,Jr. While Jim is walking to the press area, Hinckley pulls a Röhm RG-14 .22 cal. revolver, and begins firing at the president. Jim is"
"San Ysidro McDonald's massacre The San Ysidro McDonald's massacre was a mass shooting that occurred in and around a McDonald's restaurant in the San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego, California, on July 18, 1984. The perpetrator, 41-year-old James Huberty, killed 21 people and injured 19 others before being fatally shot by a SWAT team sniper. The shooting ranked as the deadliest mass shooting committed in the United States until the 1991 Luby's shooting. It is currently the seventh-deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. On July 15, 1984, James Huberty commented to his wife, Etna, that he suspected he might have"
"Belfast. Dillon accepted the invitation and after several whiskeys and brandishing a pistol, Bingham offered to show him his racing pigeons as he was an avid pigeon fancier. He then told Dillon that he shouldn't believe what people said about him claiming that he couldn't harm a pigeon. As they said farewell at the front door, Bingham reportedly murmured in a cold voice to Dillon: ""You ever write about me again and I'll blow yer fuckin' brains out, because you're not a pigeon"". In July 1986, a 25-year-old Catholic civilian, Colm McCallan, was shot close to his Ligoniel home. Two"