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La tentative d'assassinat de Ronald Reagan se déroule le 30 mars 1981 à l'issue d'une allocution devant l'AFL-CIO à l'hôtel Hilton de Washington. Le quarantième président des États-Unis est visé seulement soixante-neuf jours après le début de sa présidence.
- Ronald Reagan
- 30 mars 1981, 14 h 27 (ET)
Article détaillé : Tentative d'assassinat de Ronald Reagan. Le 30 mars 1981 , seulement 69 jours après le début de sa présidence, Reagan fut victime d'une tentative d'assassinat alors qu'il quittait l'hôtel Hilton de Washington.
15 mai 2024 · Le 30 mars 1981, le président des États-Unis, Ronald Reagan, est victime d’une tentative d’assassinat par armes à feu à Washington.
- Hinckley's Motivation
- Attempted Assassination
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John Hinckley Jr. had erotomania and his motivation for the attack was born of his obsession with then-child actress Jodie Foster. While living in Hollywood in the late 1970s, he saw the film Taxi Driver at least 15 times, apparently identifying strongly with protagonist Travis Bickle, portrayed by actor Robert De Niro. The story involves Bickle's ...
On March 21, 1981, new president Ronald Reagan (who took office on January 20, 1981) and his wife Nancy visited Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., for a fundraising event. In his autobiography An American Life, Reagan recalled,
National Security Advisor Richard Allen would traditionally be responsible for crisis management for the executive branch, but Secretary of State Alexander Haig wanted the role. Six days before the shooting, Vice President George H. W. Bush received the assignment instead; Allen and the National Security Council would assist him. Reagan persuaded a...
The assassination attempt was captured on ENG videotape by several cameras, including those belonging to the Big Three television networks; ABC began airing footage at 2:42 p.m. All three networks erroneously reported that Brady had died. When ABC News anchorman Frank Reynolds, a friend of Brady, was later forced to retract the report, he angrily s...
Jodie Foster
The incident was a traumatic experience for the 18-year-old Foster, who was hounded by the media and paparazzi in its aftermath. She took a semester off at Yale and had to be escorted by a bodyguard everywhere she went. This event produced other stalkers for her, including a 22-year-old man named Edward Michael Richardson, who according to the Secret Serviceshared a similar obsession with Foster, and carried a loaded handgun planning to kill her but changed his mind after watching her perform...
President Ronald Reagan
Reagan's staff members were anxious for the president to appear to be recovering quickly, and the morning after his operation he saw visitors and signed a piece of legislation.Reagan left the hospital on the morning of April 11. Entering the limousine was difficult, and he joked that the first thing he would do at home was "sit down". Reagan's recovery speed impressed his doctors, but they advised the president not to work in the Oval Office for a week and avoid travel for several weeks. No v...
Delahanty, Tim McCarthy, and Brady
Thomas Delahanty recovered but developed permanent nerve damage to his left arm, and was ultimately forced to retire from the Metropolitan Police Department due to his disability. Tim McCarthy recovered fully and was the first of the wounded men to be discharged from the hospital. James Brady survived, but his wound left him with slurred speech and partial paralysis that required the full-time use of a wheelchair. Brady remained press secretary for the remainder of Reagan's administration, bu...
Books
1. The book Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan (2011) by Del Quentin Wilber 2. The novella John Loves Jodie(2015) by Joe Kelly
On screen
The following is the list of the movies dealing with the assassination attempt or portraying a portion of it: 1. The 1991 made-for-television film Without Warning: The James Brady Story, dramatizes James Brady's recovery. 2. The 2001 Showtime TV movie The Day Reagan Was Shot, loosely-based on events surrounding the assassination attempt, depicts a crazed media frenzy, a divided White House cabinet and staff with little control, and a fictional threat of international crisis. 3. The 2003 telev...
On stage
1. The musical play Assassins with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by John Weidman features John Hinckley Jr. as a character. The musical first opened Off-Broadway in 1990 with Greg Germann playing Hinckley and the Tony Awardwinning 2004 Broadway production, featured Alexander Gemignani in the role.
Treaster, Joseph B. (April 1, 1981). "A Life that Started Out With Much Promise Took Reclusive and Hostile Path". The New York Times. p. A19. The eldest Hinckley child, Scott, 30, is the vice presi...- March 30, 1981; 42 years ago, 2:27 p.m. (Eastern Time)
- Washington Hilton, Washington, D.C., United States
Le 30 mars 1981, le nouveau président Ronald Reagan est victime d'une tentative d'assassinat à sa sortie de l'hôtel Hilton de Washington, où il vient de prononcer un discours. Un homme tire six coups de feu dans sa direction, le blessant, ainsi que trois autres personnes, le policier Thomas Delahanty, le garde du corps Tim McCarthy, et le ...
La tentative d'assassinat de Ronald Reagan se déroule le 30 mars 1981 à l'issue d'une allocution devant l'AFL-CIO à l'hôtel Hilton de Washington. Le quarantième président des États-Unis est visé seulement soixante-neuf jours après le début de sa présidence.
18 février 1981 États-Unis. Présentation du programme de redressement par le président Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan annonce devant le Congrès les mesures économiques qu'il voudrait voir adopter par les députés et les sénateurs pour sortir les États-Unis de la crise.
