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Template:Expand John W. Hinckley was the attempted assassin of President Ronald Reagan.
On 30 March 1981, he fired six times at the President, who was leaving the Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C. Reagan suffered a serious chest wound, and also shot were the Press Secretary James Brady, a police officer, and a Secret Service agent. All of them survived. After his recovery, Reagans popularity increased.
Hinckley was tried in 1982, and found not guilty by reason of insanity. To this day he is held in a psychiatric hospital, but there is a push for his release.