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WHCA Dinner Shooting Echoes Another Assassination Attempt—at the Same Hotel
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WHCA Dinner Shooting Echoes Another Assassination Attempt—at the Same Hotel

TIME·Connor Greene·about 1 month ago
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Forty-five years before the alleged assassination attempt against President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday night, a different President was shot at the same Washington, D.C., hotel. Then-President Ronald Reagan was outside the Washington Hilton, the venue where the WHCA dinner is held each year, in 1981 when a man named John Hinckley Jr. made an attempt on his life .  While the suspect in Saturday’s shooting was apprehended before reaching the main ballroom where Trump, members of his Cabinet, and more than 2,000 other guests were seated, Hinckley got far closer to Reagan in his attack, firing a revolver at the President from just feet away and wounding him before he was ultimately subdued and arrested.…

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