Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan and three others outside the Washington Hilton 45 years before a gunman allegedly attempted to attack Donald Trump there during the White House Correspondents' Dinner

Preadient Ronald Reagan was walking to his limousine after giving a speech on March 30 at the Washington Hilton when gunshots rang out. A ricocheted bullet struck Reagan in the chest causing serious injuries.

When President Ronald Reagan left the Washington Hilton Hotel and headed for his waiting limousine on a gray March afternoon, he was exposed for mere seconds. That was all it took for a would-be

( NewsNation) — A retired Secret Service agent who took a bullet during the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan is praising his former agency for the way it stopped a gunman from harming President Donald Trump at a Saturday event in Washington, D.C.

The Washington Hilton Hotel, where gunfire broke out Saturday night during a White House correspondents’ dinner attended by President Trump, was also the site of an attempted assassination that left President Ronald Reagan seriously wounded in 1981.

The sound of gunfire at the Washington Hilton Hotel carried echoes of President Ronald Reagan’s shooting outside the same hotel more than four decades ago

On March 30, 1981, a gunman shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton hotel in the nation's capital. Watch a CBS News special report from that day.

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