The day America almost lost a president

Reagan, just before the shooting
President Ronald Reagan waves to the crowd outside the Washington Hilton Hotel just moments before he was shot in an assassination attempt on March 30, 1981.
Photo Courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

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