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March 30, 1981 — Assassination attempt on President Reagan

Secret Service agent Timothy J. McCarthy, Washington police officer Thomas K. Delahanty, and presidential press secretary James Brady lie wounded on the street after shots were fired at President Reagan on March 30, 1981. McCarthy threw himself into the line of fire after gunman John Hinckley Jr. had fired six shots from a crowd.

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