Secret Service Releases Audio of President Ronald Reagan Shooting -- ABC News
Ever wonder what goes on inside those ubiquitous Secret Service earpieces?
The Secret Service has released audio from the confused and dramatic moments in 1981 when President Ronald Reagan was shot outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC.
The shots themselves cannot be heard, but it is clear that agents close to Reagan initially thought the President – “Rawhide” was their code name for him – was okay and they immediately sped the Presidential limo – “stagecoach” toward the White House – “Crown.”
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My Comment: I had just got back home from the University when I first heard that President Reagan was shot. This release of Secret Service chatter gives me another look at what happened that day .... an event that (I must confess) is still disturbing and unsettling to me whenever I choose to remember it.
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