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25 YEARS AGO: ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION
John Hinckley Jr., vying for actress Jodie Foster's attention, shoots President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981, in Washington, D.C. "Honey, I forgot to duck," the 70-year-old leader tells his wife, Nancy. In December 2005, a judge grants Hinckley, committed to a psychiatric hospital, permission to visit his parents in Virginia....
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