Concerns are mounting among federal law enforcement about potential retaliatory attacks following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security announced Monday in a rare joint intelligence bulletin.
John W. Hinckley Jr., who shot Ronald Reagan and three others outside a D.C. hotel in 1981, will be released on June 15, and a Secret Service agent who was wounded in the shooting said he accepts the judge’s ruling, NBC Chicago reports.
Tuesday is the 40th anniversary of the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan. Reagan had just finished speaking to AFL-CIO leaders when he stepped out of the Washington D.C. Hilton and was struck by a bullet. John Hinkley Jr. said he opened fire to impress actress Jodie Foster. He shot press secretary James Brady, police…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Retired FBI agent John Nicholas Meisten III, who headed the probe into the attempted assassination of President Reagan, has died. He was 76. Meisten died June 30 at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center after an eight-year battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. “My father rarely spoke of…
Jerry Parr, the Secret Service agent who helped save President Ronal Reagan from a 1981 assassination attempt, has died at a hospice in Washington.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In a chilling close call in September 2006, a Secret Service agent inadvertently fired his shotgun as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was loading a motorcade, The Atlantic reports. The Secret Service called the report inaccurate. The Atlantic reported that the agent was adjusting a shotgun on a Suburban when the gun went…
