Assassination attempt
While leaving the Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC on March 30, 1981, Reagan, his press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy, and MPDC officer Thomas Delehanty were shot by John Hinckley, Jr. during an assassination attempt. Missing Reagan’s heart by less than one inch, the bullet instead struck his left lung, which likely spared his life.

Reagan turned what could have been a low point in his first 100 days into another high point when he joked, "I hope you're all Republicans" to his surgeons. (Though they were not, Dr. Joseph Giordano replied "We're all Republicans today, Mr. President.") He later famously told his wife, "Honey, I forgot to duck." [13] Reagan also said that he forgave Hinckley and hoped he would ask for God's forgiveness as well.

According to the March 31, 1981 edition of the Houston Post, and reported by AP, UPI, NBC News and Newsweek, Hinckley was the son of one of George H.W. Bush's better supporters in his 1980 presidential campaign against Ronald Reagan. John Hinckley Sr.'s Vanderbilt Energy was also threatened with a $2 million fine the morning of the assassination attempt. John Jr.'s older brother Scott Hinckley and Neil Bush had a dinner appointment for the next day

By surviving the assassination attempt and the rest of his term of office, Reagan was said to break (or at least skip) the alleged Tecumseh's Curse.

were you aware of this little nugget. i also read some place that hinkley sr was head of a political religious group with ties to the CIA and that they were behind the reverend jim jones compound as some kind of experement. anyone got any info on this

wow

im sorry

but with all the , this guy is related to that guy who knows this other guy

it sounds like that 7 degrees of Kevin Bacon crap or whatever

actually, this is one of the few conspiracy theories i actually believe in. between hinkley's brother and neil bush having dinner (i thought uit was the same day, and not the following, could be wrong on that though.) and the fact that reagen even picked bush for vice president, after blasting him for being in the cfr, and saying no cfr members would be in his admin.

I used to know somebody that knew a girl who had lunch with this guy, who said his dad use to work with this lady, who went to church with the nephew of a friend, who's grandmother sat across the table at lunch with Hinkley's brother's, ex-wife's mother's, best friend's, sister's, housekeeper's, cousin.

ladies and gentlemen, we give you the 16 degrees of seperation of Hinkley

lol, its not nearly that complicated. bush is the suspect, his son ate lunch or dinner with hinkley's brother the day of the assassionation attempt. thats as far as the relations go, or at least as far as i know of.

but don't forget that guy at that place across from the grassy knoll, down the road from area 51, where those people plot to control everything except those little green guys who are related to the big lizard people from that planet by the star in that solar system that kevin bacon came from.

why the crap would some guy matyr off his son in a poorly concieved assasination attempt that amounted to walking up to the president in front of dozens of witnesses and taking a shot at him?

at least George Bush Jnr was able to hide his involvement in Kennedies assasination, we all know he was the gunman on the grassy knoll:)

yes 16 times removed!

hey now
that crap is true
dont try and lump it in with this fantasy

According to the March 31, 1981 edition of the Houston Post, and reported by AP, UPI, NBC News and Newsweek, Hinckley was the son of one of George H.W. Bush's better supporters in his 1980 presidential campaign against Ronald Reagan. John Hinckley Sr.'s Vanderbilt Energy was also threatened with a $2 million fine the morning of the assassination attempt. John Jr.'s older brother Scott Hinckley and Neil Bush had a dinner appointment for the next day
the houston post reported these links