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March 30, 1981: President Reagan is shot right outside of the Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C. Although the Secret Service was quick in evacuating the President and detaining the shooter, by that point it was far too late, as one of the bullets ricocheted off the side of the Presidential limousine and pierced him in the heart. Just an hour later, Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, was confirmed to have succumbed to his injury. Others wounded include police officer Thomas Delahanty, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy, and Press Secretary James Brady. The extent of their injuries are not yet known, however, the shooter was identified as John Hinckley Jr., a 25-year-old man whom investigations found had an obsession with actress Jodie Foster. Hinckley would confess to interrogators that he had assassinated the President in order to impress her.

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