Photos: 35 years ago: Reagan assassination attempt

President Reagan waves and then looks up before being shoved into the President’s limousine by secret service agents after being shot outside a Washington hotel Monday, March 30, 1981. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

AP Photo/Ron Edmonds

U.S. President Ronald Reagan looks to his left and holds up his left arm as a Secret Service agent places a hand on his shoulder and pushes the President into his limousine after he was shot leaving a Washington hotel, Monday, March 30, 1981. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

AP Photo/Ron Edmonds

Officers with guns drawn rush towards assassin John Hinckley, not shown, after he fired his weapon hitting President Ronald Reagan, Officer Delahanty, and Secret Service Agent Tim McCarthy after a Washington hotel, D.C., March 30, 1981. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

Officers with guns drawn rush toward assassin John Hinckley, not shown, after he fired his weapon hitting President Ronald Reagan, Officer Delahanty, and Secret Service Agent Tim McCarthy after a Washington hotel, D.C., March 30, 1981. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

AP Photo/Ron Edmonds

In this March 30, 1981 file photo released by the White House, White House press secretary James Brady, face down at right, and Washington, D.C., police officer Thomas Delahanty, front, lie on the ground after being wounded during the assassination attempt on President Reagan as he was leaving the Washington Hilton, March 30, 1981. (AP Photo/White House, Michael Evans)

AP Photo/White House, Michael Evans

President Reagan waves, then looks up before being shoved into Presidential limousine by Secret Service agents after being shot outside a Washington hotel Monday, March 30, 1981. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

AP Photo/Ron Edmonds

White House press secretary James Brady lies wounded on the sidewalk outside a Washington hotel after being shot during an assassination attempt on U.S. President Ronald Reagan on Monday, March 30, 1981. In the background secret service agents and police wrestle the alleged assailant to the ground. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

AP Photo/Ron Edmonds

An unidentified secret agent, automatic weapon drawn, yells orders after shots were fired at President Ronald Reagan Monday, March 30, 1981, outside a Washington hotel. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

An unidentified Secret Service agent, automatic weapon drawn, yells orders after shots were fired at President Ronald Reagan Monday, March 30, 1981, outside a Washington hotel. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

AP Photo/Ron Edmonds

President assistants James Baker, left, Edwin Meese III and Larry Speakes arrive at George Washington University Hospital to see President Reagan in Washington on March 30, 1981. Reagan was shot as he left a Washington hotel. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)

AP Photo/Bob Daugherty

Vice President George Bush, followed by White House Chief of Staff Edwin Meese III, arrives for an appearance before reporters at the White House in Washington, March 30, 1981. The vice president interrupted a trip to Texas after the shooting of President Ronald Reagan. (AP Photo)

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Photo diagram highlights logistics of President Ronald Reagan and others during the assassination attempt on the president outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, March 30, 1981. (AP Photo)

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This is the Washington Hilton Hotel, March 30, 1981. Overhang is VIP entrance where Reagan was getting into car. Drain grate, across sidewalk at right, is where Brady and District of Columbia policeman fell. Assailant was pinned to wall by grate. Secret Service agent fell on the near side of overhang near the president. (AP Photo)

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People wait in a heavy rain outside George Washington University Hospital in Washington, March 30, 1981, on word about President Ronald Reagan’s condition. Reagan was shot in the chest as he left a Washington Hotel. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)

AP Photo/Bob Daugherty