When Irish Eyes Were Smiling

The bygone era of good-humoured politics

It wasn’t until the limo fled the scene and Reagan began coughing up blood that his aides realized he had been hit and rushed him to George Washington Hospital.

The first five bullets that John Hinkley Jr. had fired moments earlier outside of the Washington Hilton missed the President. But the sixth and final shot ricocheted off the side of the parked pr…