March 30, 1981, Where Were You When You Heard

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Turned out Reagan was mere minutes from dying with a bullet next to his heart and only a series of right decisions saved him. After being shoved into the car it was only the President and his driver on their own, no other protection. Safest place in the world is the White House so that’s where the driver took off to.
Then Reagan says “Jerry, I think you broke my ribs”. Jerry turns and sees blood on Reagan’s lips. Jerry then decides to drive to the hospital in dense DC traffic, still unescorted.
Reagan denied assistance and started to walk into the hospital on his own but collapsed from loss of blood.
As he was taken into the operating room he said to the surgeons: “Please tell me you’re Republicans.” The head surgeon replied “Today we are all Republicans”.
Meanwhile back at the White House Nancy’s SS agent knew he was in a pickle. He knew that as soon as she heard she’d be jumping into the car. He ended up negotiating a 15 minute delay to get a security team together. On the way they were stuck in DC traffic, and Nancy got out of the car to proceed on. Her SS agent finally got her back in the car and they got to the hospital. When she walked up to Ron he said “ Honey, I forgot to duck.”
Reagan later said that day was an eye opener for him. His days were borrowed and his time limited. After he recovered he intensified his negotiations with the Soviet Union that would eventually end the decades long Cold War.
 
I'm sure I was somewhere and not giving a shit about the president or any other politician
 
I remember , was working some job somewhere

Never really agreed with much of RR's policies, but have to hand it to him, he did have grace under fire!

~S~
 
I seem to remember hearing about it at work.

What I remember is they never made it out to be a big deal. Wasn’t till later you learned how serious it was.

They did downplay it until later. He almost died, something like 6-8 pints of blood.
As much as a body holds.

Pretty sure it was a .22 and a ricochet, too.

That "Brady Bill" came up so fast, it's almost as if they already had it drafted. ;)
 
I seem to remember hearing about it at work.

What I remember is they never made it out to be a big deal. Wasn’t till later you learned how serious it was.

They did downplay it until later. He almost died, something like 6-8 pints of blood.
As much as a body holds.

Pretty sure it was a .22 and a ricochet, too.

That "Brady Bill" came up so fast, it's almost as if they already had it drafted. ;)
It was a .22, but with an explosive bullet which fortunately failed.
 
I was 10. I was in school. We all had to sit on the carpet and watch a television.
 
I seem to remember hearing about it at work.

What I remember is they never made it out to be a big deal. Wasn’t till later you learned how serious it was.

They did downplay it until later. He almost died, something like 6-8 pints of blood.
As much as a body holds.

Pretty sure it was a .22 and a ricochet, too.

That "Brady Bill" came up so fast, it's almost as if they already had it drafted. ;)
The Brady Bill passed in 1993, 12 years after the shooting
 
Hell I barely remember yesterday- can you give me a trigger to help?

I've been reteaching myself to play the guitar. It's amazing how many songs I forgot but are coming back to me.
 
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Turned out Reagan was mere minutes from dying with a bullet next to his heart and only a series of right decisions saved him. After being shoved into the car it was only the President and his driver on their own, no other protection. Safest place in the world is the White House so that’s where the driver took off to.
Then Reagan says “Jerry, I think you broke my ribs”. Jerry turns and sees blood on Reagan’s lips. Jerry then decides to drive to the hospital in dense DC traffic, still unescorted.
Reagan denied assistance and started to walk into the hospital on his own but collapsed from loss of blood.
As he was taken into the operating room he said to the surgeons: “Please tell me you’re Republicans.” The head surgeon replied “Today we are all Republicans”.
Meanwhile back at the White House Nancy’s SS agent knew he was in a pickle. He knew that as soon as she heard she’d be jumping into the car. He ended up negotiating a 15 minute delay to get a security team together. On the way they were stuck in DC traffic, and Nancy got out of the car to proceed on. Her SS agent finally got her back in the car and they got to the hospital. When she walked up to Ron he said “ Honey, I forgot to duck.”
Reagan later said that day was an eye opener for him. His days were borrowed and his time limited. After he recovered he intensified his negotiations with the Soviet Union that would eventually end the decades long Cold War.
Too bad he didn't die, would have saved the USA a lot of problems.
 
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Turned out Reagan was mere minutes from dying with a bullet next to his heart and only a series of right decisions saved him. After being shoved into the car it was only the President and his driver on their own, no other protection. Safest place in the world is the White House so that’s where the driver took off to.
Then Reagan says “Jerry, I think you broke my ribs”. Jerry turns and sees blood on Reagan’s lips. Jerry then decides to drive to the hospital in dense DC traffic, still unescorted.
Reagan denied assistance and started to walk into the hospital on his own but collapsed from loss of blood.
As he was taken into the operating room he said to the surgeons: “Please tell me you’re Republicans.” The head surgeon replied “Today we are all Republicans”.
Meanwhile back at the White House Nancy’s SS agent knew he was in a pickle. He knew that as soon as she heard she’d be jumping into the car. He ended up negotiating a 15 minute delay to get a security team together. On the way they were stuck in DC traffic, and Nancy got out of the car to proceed on. Her SS agent finally got her back in the car and they got to the hospital. When she walked up to Ron he said “ Honey, I forgot to duck.”
Reagan later said that day was an eye opener for him. His days were borrowed and his time limited. After he recovered he intensified his negotiations with the Soviet Union that would eventually end the decades long Cold War.
Too bad he didn't die, would have saved the USA a lot of problems.
I'm going to cut off a prius for you. Some stupid lefty is going to shit himself.
 
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Turned out Reagan was mere minutes from dying with a bullet next to his heart and only a series of right decisions saved him. After being shoved into the car it was only the President and his driver on their own, no other protection. Safest place in the world is the White House so that’s where the driver took off to.
Then Reagan says “Jerry, I think you broke my ribs”. Jerry turns and sees blood on Reagan’s lips. Jerry then decides to drive to the hospital in dense DC traffic, still unescorted.
Reagan denied assistance and started to walk into the hospital on his own but collapsed from loss of blood.
As he was taken into the operating room he said to the surgeons: “Please tell me you’re Republicans.” The head surgeon replied “Today we are all Republicans”.
Meanwhile back at the White House Nancy’s SS agent knew he was in a pickle. He knew that as soon as she heard she’d be jumping into the car. He ended up negotiating a 15 minute delay to get a security team together. On the way they were stuck in DC traffic, and Nancy got out of the car to proceed on. Her SS agent finally got her back in the car and they got to the hospital. When she walked up to Ron he said “ Honey, I forgot to duck.”
Reagan later said that day was an eye opener for him. His days were borrowed and his time limited. After he recovered he intensified his negotiations with the Soviet Union that would eventually end the decades long Cold War.
Too bad he didn't die, would have saved the USA a lot of problems.
Your beloved Soviet Union perished so you hate Ronnie Raygun.
 
Don't remember. Don't even remember the year he was shot. He didn't do much, except raise taxes 8 times on the working people while giving huge breaks to swindlers and trust fund kidsz, so he wasn't memorable for much of anything except a real estate bubble and dragging out the final collapse of the Soviet state trying to play 'tough guy' while behind the scenes cutting deals with Iranian terrorists who committed an act of war against the U.S. after babbling stuff about ' we don't deal with terrorists' and other stupid shit he thought sounded good but was lying about.
 
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I was out of work in the spring of 1981, and was hanging out at Gene's. I believe I was taking the first sip from a tall Schmidt's draft when I saw it on the tube.

Schmidt's of Philadelphia was a tremendous beer, unfortunately its no longer brewed.
 

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