Where were you the day that Ronald Reagan was shot? It was thirty years ago last week, when President Ronald Reagan was barely two months into his first term, that he walked out of a hotel in Washington DC into a series of gunshots fired by John Hinckley Jr. The president was wounded, closer to dying than the public ever knew at the time. Also shot were his press secretary, a secret service agent and a DC police officer. For the thirty year anniversary of this historic attempt, Washington Post reporter Del Quentin Wilbur has assembled the definitive account of that day and its aftermath. Wilbur and retired Secret Service agent Jerry Parr join host David Lazarus to recount how Parr actually saved Regan's twice that day, just how the president's true condition was kept from the public, and what it is like to hold the gun that Hinckley had trained on Reagan that day.

Guest:

Del Quentin Wilber, author of Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan

Jerry Parr, Secret Service agent (retired)